Nisi Shawl
@nisishawl.bsky.social
Writer editor singer songer. I'm just another part of you.
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Nisi Shawl
@nisishawl.bsky.social
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HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!
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Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
soniasulaiman.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
You all deserve treats for being so naughty and so nice. Here you go; I took extra care with my headwrap this morning.
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You all deserve treats for being so naughty and so nice. Here you go; I took extra care with my headwrap this morning.
This world is holy to me because it's the world in which my mother lived.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This world is holy to me because it's the world in which my mother lived.
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to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
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Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
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I'm immensely grateful to everyone who deemed me worthy of this award. Everyone who read "From Across Time" and said, yes, I'll vote for that. Thank you. It means a lot.
And thank you to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing this story.
And thank you to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing this story.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I'm immensely grateful to everyone who deemed me worthy of this award. Everyone who read "From Across Time" and said, yes, I'll vote for that. Thank you. It means a lot.
And thank you to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing this story.
And thank you to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing this story.
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ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period (Holly Bartholomew/OPB)
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November 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period (Holly Bartholomew/OPB)
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That deeply groovin voice for diverse kid lit @leeandlow.bsky.social put my Midwest fantasy Speculation 40% off! Go to their site www.leeandlow.com/books/specul... to buy it and and enter the magic word BTS2025 when you check out and holyhooptio! You're saving yourself six bucks!
Speculation
A wonderful middle-grade fantasy debut about Black families, family history, family curses ... and a really marvelous pair of spectacles.
www.leeandlow.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
That deeply groovin voice for diverse kid lit @leeandlow.bsky.social put my Midwest fantasy Speculation 40% off! Go to their site www.leeandlow.com/books/specul... to buy it and and enter the magic word BTS2025 when you check out and holyhooptio! You're saving yourself six bucks!
Hill's smile in the photo of her and Bill going in for questioning re: Epstein is the smile of someone inwardly gritting their teeth and trying not to blurt out I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU SO MUCH SO
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hill's smile in the photo of her and Bill going in for questioning re: Epstein is the smile of someone inwardly gritting their teeth and trying not to blurt out I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU SO MUCH SO
At least *some* of the kids are all right. My 25-year-old niece grouses that critical thinking is a lost art. I hear the initials A and I are being used as a synonym for the initials BS. At least some of the time.
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
At least *some* of the kids are all right. My 25-year-old niece grouses that critical thinking is a lost art. I hear the initials A and I are being used as a synonym for the initials BS. At least some of the time.
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They’re going to regulate whistles before guns aren’t they?
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Good morning and thank you!🤗
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Good morning and thank you!🤗
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Weeping as I listen to Porgy and Bess, Gershwin's gorgeous masterpiece and a staple soundtrack in my childhood. I was raised and nourished on the insuperable. The simplicity, the glory: "Old Man Sorrow's sittin by the fireplace, lyin all night long by me in my bed." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1e...
Porgy And Bess Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1959)
YouTube video by Reelblack One
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November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Weeping as I listen to Porgy and Bess, Gershwin's gorgeous masterpiece and a staple soundtrack in my childhood. I was raised and nourished on the insuperable. The simplicity, the glory: "Old Man Sorrow's sittin by the fireplace, lyin all night long by me in my bed." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1e...
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If bookstagrammers/book toilers don’t start reversing the camera so titles aren’t backwards, I swear to God…
I don’t care about you making faces! Let me read the title!
I don’t care about you making faces! Let me read the title!
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If bookstagrammers/book toilers don’t start reversing the camera so titles aren’t backwards, I swear to God…
I don’t care about you making faces! Let me read the title!
I don’t care about you making faces! Let me read the title!
Just learned one of my ancestors, Uriah Rickman, was a white man! He owned hundreds of acres of farm land in Tennessee in 1842, so I guess that should have been a clue....
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Just learned one of my ancestors, Uriah Rickman, was a white man! He owned hundreds of acres of farm land in Tennessee in 1842, so I guess that should have been a clue....
We live not merely in our bodies but in the web of our communings with each other. These plants recite stories in my head of how I got them, who from, who will want to share their fruits with me.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We live not merely in our bodies but in the web of our communings with each other. These plants recite stories in my head of how I got them, who from, who will want to share their fruits with me.
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I can’t force white people to offer black people kindness. Even if it’s as small as seeing their pain and acknowledging it whether you can alleviate it or not. It is a form of empathic violence many of us are conditioned to perpetuate in order to allow the systems we live in to function.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I can’t force white people to offer black people kindness. Even if it’s as small as seeing their pain and acknowledging it whether you can alleviate it or not. It is a form of empathic violence many of us are conditioned to perpetuate in order to allow the systems we live in to function.
Is that glee I smell?
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Is that glee I smell?
Help for hoping: Le Guin's anarchist-inspired novel The Dispossessed set to music: thebushwickbookclubseattle.com/event/origin...
Original music inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed | NOV 15 | Hugo House – The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
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November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Help for hoping: Le Guin's anarchist-inspired novel The Dispossessed set to music: thebushwickbookclubseattle.com/event/origin...
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no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
New word definition proposal: to trump meaning to grift, to cheat, to commit fraud upon someone. Used in sentences: "I am not about to let you trump me out of inheriting my uncle's library." "What kinda trump are you pullin?"
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
New word definition proposal: to trump meaning to grift, to cheat, to commit fraud upon someone. Used in sentences: "I am not about to let you trump me out of inheriting my uncle's library." "What kinda trump are you pullin?"
There's no need to [email protected] is here!
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There's no need to [email protected] is here!
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Am reading this at the moment and absolutely DEVOURING the DELICIOUSNESS of THE DEVOURERS by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social !!! It’s SOOOOO GOOOD🙌🏾
Oh, look at @indrapramitdas.bsky.social up there with a top pick by The Mary Sue! For his novel The Devourers: www.msn.com/en-us/travel...
MSN
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November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Am reading this at the moment and absolutely DEVOURING the DELICIOUSNESS of THE DEVOURERS by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social !!! It’s SOOOOO GOOOD🙌🏾
Oh, look at @indrapramitdas.bsky.social up there with a top pick by The Mary Sue! For his novel The Devourers: www.msn.com/en-us/travel...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Oh, look at @indrapramitdas.bsky.social up there with a top pick by The Mary Sue! For his novel The Devourers: www.msn.com/en-us/travel...
Well the master's tools had better be able to tear down his house because them's the tools we got to hand rn tbh. And where he get them from anyway?
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Well the master's tools had better be able to tear down his house because them's the tools we got to hand rn tbh. And where he get them from anyway?