Midwest BSFA
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For African-Americans who like the genres that fall under speculative fiction (sci-fi, Afrofuturism, steampunk, etc). https://midwestbsfa.wordpress.com/
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I woke up to 2" of ice cold water on my floor this morning and the rest of the day has gone about how you'd expect after that.
PERFECT TIME to push the last $5101 in my campaign over the edge.
PERFECT TIME to push the last $5101 in my campaign over the edge.
👋🏿 I'm Winifred. In 2025 I:
*Survived a MN winter w/o consistent heat/hot water
*Sold an "erotic houseplant horror" story
*Had surgery
*Did births in 3 diff states w/ 4 diff midwifery practices from off grid shacks to urban mansions to tiny apts
I'm exhausted but I'm only 9% away from fully funded.
*Survived a MN winter w/o consistent heat/hot water
*Sold an "erotic houseplant horror" story
*Had surgery
*Did births in 3 diff states w/ 4 diff midwifery practices from off grid shacks to urban mansions to tiny apts
I'm exhausted but I'm only 9% away from fully funded.
Donate to Help Make Winifred a Midwife, organized by Aurelius Raines
My desire to leave Norway is perhaps Twitter's best kept secret but the cat is out of the… Aurelius Raines needs your support for Help Make Winifred a Midwife
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January 26, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I woke up to 2" of ice cold water on my floor this morning and the rest of the day has gone about how you'd expect after that.
PERFECT TIME to push the last $5101 in my campaign over the edge.
PERFECT TIME to push the last $5101 in my campaign over the edge.
No diggity, no doubt
Y’all know what it’s gonna be for ya boy…
January 24, 2026 at 5:33 AM
No diggity, no doubt
I immediately thought of Calloway's "I Wanna Be Rich." 🥰🥰🥰
Wishing the extremely talented & unsung Reggie Calloway, a very Happy 71st Birthday today 🎂🎉!
If you don’t know the name, I guarantee you've heard a song he's written and/or produced. Google him!
If you don’t know the name, I guarantee you've heard a song he's written and/or produced. Google him!
January 24, 2026 at 4:16 AM
I immediately thought of Calloway's "I Wanna Be Rich." 🥰🥰🥰
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Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” led all films with 16 nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.
‘Sinners’ makes history, setting Oscars nomination record
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January 22, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” led all films with 16 nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.
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Ruth E. Carter Becomes The Most-Nominated Black Woman In Oscar History | Essence
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Ruth E. Carter Becomes The Most-Nominated Black Woman In Oscar History | Essence
Trailblazer Ruth E. Carter is at it again. With her fifth Oscar nomination for costume design on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.
www.essence.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Ruth E. Carter Becomes The Most-Nominated Black Woman In Oscar History | Essence
www.essence.com/fashion/ruth...
www.essence.com/fashion/ruth...
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‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
January 22, 2026 at 1:53 PM
‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
The locqp opera company is having an Afrofuturism-themed fashion show/party fundraiser next month and I spent an hour yesterday morning figuring out my outfit instead of getting ready for work and it's
a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right
Alt: A man in a black turtleneck (from one of those terrible X-Men movies) saying "perfection."
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January 22, 2026 at 7:25 PM
The locqp opera company is having an Afrofuturism-themed fashion show/party fundraiser next month and I spent an hour yesterday morning figuring out my outfit instead of getting ready for work and it's
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I'm currently dogsitting a Jim Henson muppet.
December 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I'm currently dogsitting a Jim Henson muppet.
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🌙📚 Author Chat with Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social
Join Spoken Thoughts Book Club on Dec 28 at 2 PM ET for a cozy end-of-year conversation celebrating Psychopomp & Circumstance.
Come settle in, listen, and reflect with us. 🌒✨
📍 Discord Stage
🎟 Link in bio
#blackbooksky #blacksky #booksky
Join Spoken Thoughts Book Club on Dec 28 at 2 PM ET for a cozy end-of-year conversation celebrating Psychopomp & Circumstance.
Come settle in, listen, and reflect with us. 🌒✨
📍 Discord Stage
🎟 Link in bio
#blackbooksky #blacksky #booksky
December 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🌙📚 Author Chat with Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social
Join Spoken Thoughts Book Club on Dec 28 at 2 PM ET for a cozy end-of-year conversation celebrating Psychopomp & Circumstance.
Come settle in, listen, and reflect with us. 🌒✨
📍 Discord Stage
🎟 Link in bio
#blackbooksky #blacksky #booksky
Join Spoken Thoughts Book Club on Dec 28 at 2 PM ET for a cozy end-of-year conversation celebrating Psychopomp & Circumstance.
Come settle in, listen, and reflect with us. 🌒✨
📍 Discord Stage
🎟 Link in bio
#blackbooksky #blacksky #booksky
That man is, as my grandma would've said, "finer than frog's hair split four ways."
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
That man is, as my grandma would've said, "finer than frog's hair split four ways."
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
Tickets are on sale! I've been going to opera productions for nearly 25 yeaes and I'm incredibly psyched for this one. I'm going out for a supernumerary role (supers are background actors in opera productions) in the spring. Wish me luck!
#blacksky
#blacksky
It's official: LALOVAVI will make its world premiere as part of the Cincinnati Opera's 2026 season on July 9 and 11, 2026!
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Tickets are on sale! I've been going to opera productions for nearly 25 yeaes and I'm incredibly psyched for this one. I'm going out for a supernumerary role (supers are background actors in opera productions) in the spring. Wish me luck!
#blacksky
#blacksky
BOOST! Regine was one of the first Black female comic artists I came across in person when I started Midwest BSFA 11 years ago (the MECCACon days in Detroit!) and she's been a bright like for women in comics, especially Black women. Contribute if you can and help make her 2026 a little easier.
Happy Holidays Everyone! Thanks so much for all your support this year. I appreciate every single person that has supported both me and my Go Fund Me Campaign. Please continue to share it and donate if possible. Every little bit helps more than you could ever know 🙏🏾💖 gofund.me/fc8ae82c7
Donate to Help Keep My Home, organized by Regine Sawyer
Since losing my job over a year ago, like many of us across the U.S., I have yet to find full time wor… Regine Sawyer needs your support for Help Keep My Home
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December 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
BOOST! Regine was one of the first Black female comic artists I came across in person when I started Midwest BSFA 11 years ago (the MECCACon days in Detroit!) and she's been a bright like for women in comics, especially Black women. Contribute if you can and help make her 2026 a little easier.
*sigh* We should be watching a Doctor Who Christmas special with him in it right now but alas...
Has any actor in recent nerd media been glass cliff'd as hard as Ncuti Gatwa
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
*sigh* We should be watching a Doctor Who Christmas special with him in it right now but alas...
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Christmas just isn't Christmas without the late, great DMX doing his version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
December 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Christmas just isn't Christmas without the late, great DMX doing his version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
Being a single female homeowner is fine until you have to clean up the carcass of an animal that dies in your driveway. I'M JUST A GIRL!
December 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Being a single female homeowner is fine until you have to clean up the carcass of an animal that dies in your driveway. I'M JUST A GIRL!
I missed this yesterday! 🤣😂🤣
It's time. #Soulstice
December 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I missed this yesterday! 🤣😂🤣
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Today's throwback story rec is If Salt Lose Its Savor by Christopher Caldwell at Uncanny Magazine (2020) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/if-s...
If Salt Lose Its Savor - Uncanny Magazine
Restless and troubled by salt-dreams, Dion was up before dawn. The night workers in the dryhouse sang work songs. Dion yoked her buckets across her shoulders and waded out into the sea, the face of th...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Today's throwback story rec is If Salt Lose Its Savor by Christopher Caldwell at Uncanny Magazine (2020) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/if-s...
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Don't forget to check out the Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Resource Compilation and let us know of other useful resources as they come along.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Resource Compilation
A Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Resource Compilation With the awful realization that we are indeed in a fight for our very survival coming over me for the past few years, I’ve asked my...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Don't forget to check out the Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Resource Compilation and let us know of other useful resources as they come along.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Oooh! I need that!
Pure shea butter mixed with avocado oil!
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Oooh! I need that!
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Ok my turn!!!
Hot babes indeed do love Star Trek.
I’m living proof, I created and all Black mostly women lead StarTrek podcast.
I’m Shenikwa, a die hard Trekkie. Don’t believe me? He’s an article in Gizmodo that mentions me:
gizmodo.com/fans-open-up...
Hot babes indeed do love Star Trek.
I’m living proof, I created and all Black mostly women lead StarTrek podcast.
I’m Shenikwa, a die hard Trekkie. Don’t believe me? He’s an article in Gizmodo that mentions me:
gizmodo.com/fans-open-up...
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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With Sinners coming back to theaters, I just think about how that movie unlocked something. And not just in me.
October 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
With Sinners coming back to theaters, I just think about how that movie unlocked something. And not just in me.