Karuna Riazi
@karunariazi.bsky.social
Kidlit author. Blasian Muslim magical girl. Always dreaming.
Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025).
Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le
No means to donate currently 💔
Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025).
Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le
No means to donate currently 💔
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
SABRENA SWEPT AWAY by @karunariazi.bsky.social (MG Fantasy)
Oh, how I adore this book. Reminiscent of Spirited Away with its lush, strange fantasy world (inspired by 1001 Nights) & a MC who grows into herself. The side characters and the magic of story craft and water are also utterly enchanting
Oh, how I adore this book. Reminiscent of Spirited Away with its lush, strange fantasy world (inspired by 1001 Nights) & a MC who grows into herself. The side characters and the magic of story craft and water are also utterly enchanting
December 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
SABRENA SWEPT AWAY by @karunariazi.bsky.social (MG Fantasy)
Oh, how I adore this book. Reminiscent of Spirited Away with its lush, strange fantasy world (inspired by 1001 Nights) & a MC who grows into herself. The side characters and the magic of story craft and water are also utterly enchanting
Oh, how I adore this book. Reminiscent of Spirited Away with its lush, strange fantasy world (inspired by 1001 Nights) & a MC who grows into herself. The side characters and the magic of story craft and water are also utterly enchanting
OK but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
🎵 Hadestown
🎵 Six
🎵 Hamilton
🎵 (soon) Les Mis
🎵 (soon) Beauty and the Beast
🎵 Hadestown
🎵 Six
🎵 Hamilton
🎵 (soon) Les Mis
🎵 (soon) Beauty and the Beast
OK but nevermind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Cats
Phantom of the Opera
Evil Dead: The Musical
Cannibal! The Musical
Wicked
Cats
Phantom of the Opera
Evil Dead: The Musical
Cannibal! The Musical
Wicked
ok but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Cats
Wicked
Phantom
Hamilton
RENT
Cats
Wicked
Phantom
Hamilton
RENT
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
OK but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
🎵 Hadestown
🎵 Six
🎵 Hamilton
🎵 (soon) Les Mis
🎵 (soon) Beauty and the Beast
🎵 Hadestown
🎵 Six
🎵 Hamilton
🎵 (soon) Les Mis
🎵 (soon) Beauty and the Beast
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
This movie fucking slaps
Treasure Planet was released 23 years ago today... and literally takes us off in this magnificent shot. ✨
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This movie fucking slaps
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
OMG people are calling respecting BDS a “purity test.”
It sure is a test. Of your most basic willingness to materially stand behind Palestinian liberation. Lot of people failing.
A lot.
Is it a “purity test” to ask someone not to cross a picket line?
It sure is a test. Of your most basic willingness to materially stand behind Palestinian liberation. Lot of people failing.
A lot.
Is it a “purity test” to ask someone not to cross a picket line?
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
OMG people are calling respecting BDS a “purity test.”
It sure is a test. Of your most basic willingness to materially stand behind Palestinian liberation. Lot of people failing.
A lot.
Is it a “purity test” to ask someone not to cross a picket line?
It sure is a test. Of your most basic willingness to materially stand behind Palestinian liberation. Lot of people failing.
A lot.
Is it a “purity test” to ask someone not to cross a picket line?
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
"Thanksgiving"
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"Thanksgiving"
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
@karunariazi.bsky.social's absolutely amazing and mesmeric take on 1001 Nights, Sabrena Swept Away! bookshop.org/p/books/sabr...
Sabrena Swept Away
Check out Sabrena Swept Away - <p><strong>JLG Gold Standard Selection</strong></p><p><strong>This lush reimagining of the classic characters from <em>The One Thousand and One Nights </em>is ...
bookshop.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@karunariazi.bsky.social's absolutely amazing and mesmeric take on 1001 Nights, Sabrena Swept Away! bookshop.org/p/books/sabr...
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
Shelley Duvall's estate auction is tomorrow. It includes many personal items and Hollywood artifacts, among them her collection of fairy tale books (some signed by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac). We watched Faerie Tale Theatre so many times as kids.
www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/3925...
www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/3925...
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Shelley Duvall's estate auction is tomorrow. It includes many personal items and Hollywood artifacts, among them her collection of fairy tale books (some signed by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac). We watched Faerie Tale Theatre so many times as kids.
www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/3925...
www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/3925...
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." –
Grace Lee Boggs
Grace Lee Boggs
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." –
Grace Lee Boggs
Grace Lee Boggs
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
Baltimore’s Black archives and museums are still standing tall baltimorebeat.com/the-importan... “It’s so important to preserve memory … If you don’t have archives, if you don’t have collections, if you don’t have the griots and the storytellers, who is going to tell the truth?”
The importance of preserving memory: Baltimore’s Black archives and museums are still standing tall
For decades, predominantly white institutions have minimized and refused to document or preserve the long legacy of Black stories and cultural experiences. Black archives and museums — spaces like the...
baltimorebeat.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Baltimore’s Black archives and museums are still standing tall baltimorebeat.com/the-importan... “It’s so important to preserve memory … If you don’t have archives, if you don’t have collections, if you don’t have the griots and the storytellers, who is going to tell the truth?”
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
And Boston Globe has all kinds of BS but no mention of this. Where are the Spotlight people?!!
This is so terrible.
The Combahee River Collective was founded in Boston in part because Beverly Smith, Barbara Smith and others saw how police weren't investigating and press was ignoring epidemic of murders of women in Roxbury and similar neighborhoods.
This is a similar lack of regard, sadly.
The Combahee River Collective was founded in Boston in part because Beverly Smith, Barbara Smith and others saw how police weren't investigating and press was ignoring epidemic of murders of women in Roxbury and similar neighborhoods.
This is a similar lack of regard, sadly.
New England serial killer fears stoked by 13th body found in small town
The body of Adriana Suazo, 21, was found by a passerby on June 13 in the woods of Milton, a Massachusetts suburb about eight miles south of Boston, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Offi…
nypost.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
And Boston Globe has all kinds of BS but no mention of this. Where are the Spotlight people?!!
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
This is not isolated. I'm going to start a thread of other desecrations of Black and non white history and civil rights here:
Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed
Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.
www.wsbtv.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This is not isolated. I'm going to start a thread of other desecrations of Black and non white history and civil rights here:
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.
A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.
So many people on the wrong side of history.
A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.
So many people on the wrong side of history.
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.
A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.
So many people on the wrong side of history.
A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.
So many people on the wrong side of history.
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.
Get in touch with me!
Get in touch with me!
October 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.
Get in touch with me!
Get in touch with me!
AI scraped my books.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
AI scraped my books.
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
1. The effects of strokes can be FULLY REVERSED within 2 hours if you get them immediate medical treatment
2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE
2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs
The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
www.kare11.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
1. The effects of strokes can be FULLY REVERSED within 2 hours if you get them immediate medical treatment
2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE
2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine | Books | The Guardian share.google/R52hQ3vYoUvh...
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine
Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’
share.google
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine | Books | The Guardian share.google/R52hQ3vYoUvh...
AO3 is back! And now I vanish again ✌🏽
I really need to follow this account more closely. I didn't download fics and was in the middle of reading one when the maintenance status came up 😭
[update] In Progress: Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
AO3 is back! And now I vanish again ✌🏽
I haven't done a #currentlyplaying look at the video games in the queue in a good while - so here's one!
🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop
(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)
🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop
(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I haven't done a #currentlyplaying look at the video games in the queue in a good while - so here's one!
🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop
(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)
🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop
(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)
I really need to follow this account more closely. I didn't download fics and was in the middle of reading one when the maintenance status came up 😭
[update] In Progress: Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
AO3 Maintenance
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
stspg.io
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I really need to follow this account more closely. I didn't download fics and was in the middle of reading one when the maintenance status came up 😭
Boosting this - it's so good! Naseem rocks!
DID YOU KNOW I WROTE A SPOOKY MIDDLE GRADE AND WE ARE NOW IN SPOOKY SEASON
🎃 55 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Middle Grade Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit 🎃
popgoesthereader.com/55-scary-and...
#BookSky #KidLit #MGLit
popgoesthereader.com/55-scary-and...
#BookSky #KidLit #MGLit
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Boosting this - it's so good! Naseem rocks!
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
300k Black women got fired, Jimmy Kimmel was gon be OK. Give them their jobs back
September 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
300k Black women got fired, Jimmy Kimmel was gon be OK. Give them their jobs back
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
5th grader Anneliese rec'd GAUNTLET by @karunariazi.bsky.social ! #kidlit #5thgradebooks
"If you like books that have a little bit of mysterious and fantasy in them then you will love this book." 📚👍
www.thelogonauts.com/2025/09/blog...
"If you like books that have a little bit of mysterious and fantasy in them then you will love this book." 📚👍
www.thelogonauts.com/2025/09/blog...
The Gauntlet book reivew
A resource for diverse and global books for middle to upper elementary.
www.thelogonauts.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
5th grader Anneliese rec'd GAUNTLET by @karunariazi.bsky.social ! #kidlit #5thgradebooks
"If you like books that have a little bit of mysterious and fantasy in them then you will love this book." 📚👍
www.thelogonauts.com/2025/09/blog...
"If you like books that have a little bit of mysterious and fantasy in them then you will love this book." 📚👍
www.thelogonauts.com/2025/09/blog...
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
you have three years to find a person who doesn't suck.
Get to it
Get to it
Prepare yourself for a Dem nominee (him or somebody else) with whom you don’t agree on everything (Gaza, trans issues, death penalty). You have three years to get the fuck over it because anyone the Dems offer up is better than this or something like this.
Ok, you know why I don’t like Gavin Newsom? You know how in While You Were Sleeping, Peter Gallagher’s family all talks about how he rescued a nest of baby birds as a kid, and later he admits he knocked their nest out of the tree with a rock, then made sure everyone saw him rescue it?
That’s Gavin.
That’s Gavin.
August 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
you have three years to find a person who doesn't suck.
Get to it
Get to it
Reposted by Karuna Riazi
Could I start crying at everything happening. Sure. I used to.
But I gotta protect my neck. Especially because #yall continue to prove that yall aint doing shit about anything happening. So I gotta make sure me and mine cool.
But I gotta protect my neck. Especially because #yall continue to prove that yall aint doing shit about anything happening. So I gotta make sure me and mine cool.
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Could I start crying at everything happening. Sure. I used to.
But I gotta protect my neck. Especially because #yall continue to prove that yall aint doing shit about anything happening. So I gotta make sure me and mine cool.
But I gotta protect my neck. Especially because #yall continue to prove that yall aint doing shit about anything happening. So I gotta make sure me and mine cool.