shaawan francis keahna (he/him)
@shaawan.com
writerman, lapsed actor, pretentious flip phone acolyte. words in lots of places. baltimore based.
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Call for Submissions: QUEER MYTHOLOGIES: a celebration of spirituality, folklore, and queer cosmologies.
📌 foglifter.submittable.com
📌 foglifter.submittable.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Call for Submissions: QUEER MYTHOLOGIES: a celebration of spirituality, folklore, and queer cosmologies.
📌 foglifter.submittable.com
📌 foglifter.submittable.com
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
open.substack.com/pub/toramata... Sharing Briana’s latest on here. Holy shit.
Last in My Bloodline
Shirking my birthright to become a beast of my own making
open.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:56 AM
open.substack.com/pub/toramata... Sharing Briana’s latest on here. Holy shit.
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no more AI "art." i want art made by people because i want to know how people think, feel, live. how a day on this earth is for someone else. a night. and why the heart, though so heavy, still wants to dance. i want art that looks into this mystery. art that connects me to another person who wonders
February 16, 2026 at 1:22 AM
no more AI "art." i want art made by people because i want to know how people think, feel, live. how a day on this earth is for someone else. a night. and why the heart, though so heavy, still wants to dance. i want art that looks into this mystery. art that connects me to another person who wonders
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"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
—Kurt Vonnegut
—Kurt Vonnegut
February 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
—Kurt Vonnegut
—Kurt Vonnegut
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific writer who fought for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific writer who fought for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
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Are there other departments in our government besides Cops
February 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Are there other departments in our government besides Cops
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Huh, this has not reached its cap yet...
this call, and thus this link, will be live in just a bit over 4 hours. (betting it will be full, and the link dead, just a LITTLE bit thereafter)
giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Huh, this has not reached its cap yet...
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I started this magazine in a different body, gender and name and with zero editorial experience. Will yourself into existence
February 15, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I started this magazine in a different body, gender and name and with zero editorial experience. Will yourself into existence
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Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
February 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
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It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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What's more romantic than helping a bunch of cutie-pie authors get a pay raise? Nothing, tbh. We're less than 50 bucks from the first pay raise for contributors...be our valentine and back @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social tonight! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026
Sword & Sorcery magazine featuring short fiction, non-fiction, and gorgeous art. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Luxurious hardcover, clas...
www.backerkit.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:11 AM
What's more romantic than helping a bunch of cutie-pie authors get a pay raise? Nothing, tbh. We're less than 50 bucks from the first pay raise for contributors...be our valentine and back @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social tonight! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
my african american history after 1865 class is making me wanna beat my head against the wall because we’re learning about poll taxes and literacy tests right as the SAVE act is being debated
February 15, 2026 at 12:54 AM
my african american history after 1865 class is making me wanna beat my head against the wall because we’re learning about poll taxes and literacy tests right as the SAVE act is being debated
happy valentines day who wants my weird mpreg story
February 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
happy valentines day who wants my weird mpreg story
qt with your favorite husbands
February 14, 2026 at 10:58 PM
qt with your favorite husbands
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
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With this report, you can see:
- Where DHS enforcement is spending its budget
- What it is buying
- What capabilities are in your backyard
- Who is getting compensated the most
This is a large data set, so be patient — and use a laptop or desktop for best viewing.
- Where DHS enforcement is spending its budget
- What it is buying
- What capabilities are in your backyard
- Who is getting compensated the most
This is a large data set, so be patient — and use a laptop or desktop for best viewing.
February 14, 2026 at 10:39 PM
With this report, you can see:
- Where DHS enforcement is spending its budget
- What it is buying
- What capabilities are in your backyard
- Who is getting compensated the most
This is a large data set, so be patient — and use a laptop or desktop for best viewing.
- Where DHS enforcement is spending its budget
- What it is buying
- What capabilities are in your backyard
- Who is getting compensated the most
This is a large data set, so be patient — and use a laptop or desktop for best viewing.
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I just applied for a passport renewal. The cost was $149 including postage. Requiring a passport or similar proof of citizenship to vote is thus a poll tax. The SAVE Act before the Senate asks to do just that.
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them NO SAVE ACT
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them NO SAVE ACT
The GOP’s Voter Integrity Sham
Make the Republicans hell bent on passing the SAVE Act put money where their mouths are.
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I just applied for a passport renewal. The cost was $149 including postage. Requiring a passport or similar proof of citizenship to vote is thus a poll tax. The SAVE Act before the Senate asks to do just that.
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them NO SAVE ACT
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them NO SAVE ACT
shaawan.com/2026/02/14/p... Short and sweet blog post about posting??? I haven’t blogged in ages but I need to. For my health.
Proof of life
If we don’t post it, it doesn’t happen. Oh, I wanna be free of this–– ––Bastille, “Way Beyond,” Wild World I keep fantasizing about hiring someone to set up an Instagram for me, but my drive to get ev...
shaawan.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:51 PM
shaawan.com/2026/02/14/p... Short and sweet blog post about posting??? I haven’t blogged in ages but I need to. For my health.
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Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice