Tananarive Due - The Reformatory
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
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Octavia E. Butler signed this copy of Parable of the Sower for my late mother, Patricia Stephens Due.
The power of these Black women inspired me to write an essay after Tr*mp's inauguration in 2017. I've reposted a slightly revised version I hope will bring you hope today.
tinyurl.com/mwazxrb4
The power of these Black women inspired me to write an essay after Tr*mp's inauguration in 2017. I've reposted a slightly revised version I hope will bring you hope today.
tinyurl.com/mwazxrb4
Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. Butler
I originally wrote this essay to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. It deeply grieves me to publish it…
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Also be sure to join my mailing list at www.tananarivelist.com - hubby @kundalinisteve.bsky.social and I do weekly FREE Zooms with advice on writing and stress relief.
Thanks for this post! The Sunken Place is an adaptation of my UCLA course, but for the public: www.sunkenplaceclass.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Thanks for this post! The Sunken Place is an adaptation of my UCLA course, but for the public: www.sunkenplaceclass.com
Hubby @kundalinisteve.bsky.social and I have collected donations to a charity fund for those in need at the holidays.
Reach out if you need a little extra money via PayPal to get by.
It's not enough for rent or a car payment, but it's enough for groceries and smaller gaps.
Reach out if you need a little extra money via PayPal to get by.
It's not enough for rent or a car payment, but it's enough for groceries and smaller gaps.
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hubby @kundalinisteve.bsky.social and I have collected donations to a charity fund for those in need at the holidays.
Reach out if you need a little extra money via PayPal to get by.
It's not enough for rent or a car payment, but it's enough for groceries and smaller gaps.
Reach out if you need a little extra money via PayPal to get by.
It's not enough for rent or a car payment, but it's enough for groceries and smaller gaps.
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Watching @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social talk about Octavia E. Butler—master of the gray area, master of discomfort, aka my matron saint 👑—was my jam last night. 🙏🏽They reminded me that I’m long overdue for another reread of her Xenogenesis trilogy. Reading it now 1/3
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Watching @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social talk about Octavia E. Butler—master of the gray area, master of discomfort, aka my matron saint 👑—was my jam last night. 🙏🏽They reminded me that I’m long overdue for another reread of her Xenogenesis trilogy. Reading it now 1/3
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Such a wonderful & meaningful @libraryofamerica.bsky.social convo: @imaniperry.bsky.social's comments about needing to embrace discomfort to rightly course correct & achieve needed change & @tananarivedue.bsky.social's perceptive comments about Black women leading--both the promise & peril therein.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Such a wonderful & meaningful @libraryofamerica.bsky.social convo: @imaniperry.bsky.social's comments about needing to embrace discomfort to rightly course correct & achieve needed change & @tananarivedue.bsky.social's perceptive comments about Black women leading--both the promise & peril therein.
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In @libraryofamerica.bsky.social convo "The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler" with writers @imaniperry.bsky.social & @tananarivedue.bsky.social, both offered such beautiful reflections on Butler's expansive craft but also Due commented on Butler's humanity based on knowing her personally.
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
In @libraryofamerica.bsky.social convo "The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler" with writers @imaniperry.bsky.social & @tananarivedue.bsky.social, both offered such beautiful reflections on Butler's expansive craft but also Due commented on Butler's humanity based on knowing her personally.
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Ghost Summer: Stories by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
Another collection of short stories that blew me away! I read this for more Nayima stories and was excited to get more Gracetown too! Ghost Summer, Herd Immunity, Patient Zero and Danger Word were my favorites, but they were all great.
#booksky
Another collection of short stories that blew me away! I read this for more Nayima stories and was excited to get more Gracetown too! Ghost Summer, Herd Immunity, Patient Zero and Danger Word were my favorites, but they were all great.
#booksky
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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I'm speechless. Literary icon @tananarivedue.bsky.social has graced THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS with the most incredible blurb. To have someone I admire so deeply say such wonderful things about my debut novel is a dream come true.
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
Link below.
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
Link below.
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The Reformatory by Tananarive Due @tananarivedue.bsky.social is on sale at Libro for $3.49 members, $4.99 everyone else.
The story is fantastically terrifying.
The narration is excellent and you forget that it's only one person reading.
Everyone needs this book
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
The story is fantastically terrifying.
The narration is excellent and you forget that it's only one person reading.
Everyone needs this book
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
The Reformatory Audiobook on Libro.fm
*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award * “You’re in for a treat...one of those books...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due @tananarivedue.bsky.social is on sale at Libro for $3.49 members, $4.99 everyone else.
The story is fantastically terrifying.
The narration is excellent and you forget that it's only one person reading.
Everyone needs this book
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
The story is fantastically terrifying.
The narration is excellent and you forget that it's only one person reading.
Everyone needs this book
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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My high school classmate Jason is a trucker who has had an on the job injury and now needs financial help while he recovers. The kindness of friends and strangers is currently our national medical safety net. Would you please consider sending $5 or more his way? Thank you!
Donate to Help Jason Bell's Family During Spinal Surgery & Recovery, organized by Jason Bell
Hello everyone,
My name is Tony Patterson and I’m reaching ou… Jason Bell needs your support for Help Jason Bell's Family During Spinal Surgery & Recovery
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November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
My high school classmate Jason is a trucker who has had an on the job injury and now needs financial help while he recovers. The kindness of friends and strangers is currently our national medical safety net. Would you please consider sending $5 or more his way? Thank you!
Mid-career journalists!! Don't miss your chance to apply for the 2026 George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop to help journalists write fiction.
I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.
Deadline 1/12/26
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.
Deadline 1/12/26
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Mid-career journalists!! Don't miss your chance to apply for the 2026 George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop to help journalists write fiction.
I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.
Deadline 1/12/26
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.
Deadline 1/12/26
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
Please stop reposting that photo of Tr*mp hugging those little girls.
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Please stop reposting that photo of Tr*mp hugging those little girls.
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I’ve said this before, but a huge function of our carceral system is resource extraction from exploited communities, and that includes the fees, commissary, and essentials people send to their loved ones, not to mention the time, attention, energy, etc.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
FCC allows prisons, jails to charge more for phone and video calls • Ohio Capital Journal
The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’ve said this before, but a huge function of our carceral system is resource extraction from exploited communities, and that includes the fees, commissary, and essentials people send to their loved ones, not to mention the time, attention, energy, etc.
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This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen
Terrific book that unfortunately remains evergreen.
ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen
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now reading 📚 The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social #BlackBookSky
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Whoah, cool:
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social makes it onto Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025!
"Jones’ chilling vampire Western is a retribution-fueled nightmare for readers with iron guts." Congratulations, Stephen and @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!
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"Jones’ chilling vampire Western is a retribution-fueled nightmare for readers with iron guts." Congratulations, Stephen and @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!
time.com/collections/...
'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
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November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Whoah, cool:
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On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
Give away land from Miami-Dade Community College for the Donald J. Trump presidential library, hotel and condos on Biscayne Blvd.? NOPE.
gofund.me/4a18d82e8
gofund.me/4a18d82e8
Donate to Support Dr. Dunn's Fight for Miami-Dade College, organized by Marvin Dunn
My name is Dr. Marvin Dunn, historian and retired professor. I am raising … Marvin Dunn needs your support for Support Dr. Dunn's Fight for Miami-Dade College
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November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Give away land from Miami-Dade Community College for the Donald J. Trump presidential library, hotel and condos on Biscayne Blvd.? NOPE.
gofund.me/4a18d82e8
gofund.me/4a18d82e8
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There are a few, but head and shoulders above them for me - The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social. It’s a compelling ghostly horror story, but the real horror is what the black community suffered on a daily basis. An urgent book, a passionate necessary book, an excellent read.
#bookvember
#bookvember
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 10!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
There are a few, but head and shoulders above them for me - The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social. It’s a compelling ghostly horror story, but the real horror is what the black community suffered on a daily basis. An urgent book, a passionate necessary book, an excellent read.
#bookvember
#bookvember
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Beautifully written book despite the brutally horrific subject matter. Best book I read in quite some time.
Due is a master wordsmith.
@tananarivedue.bsky.social #BookSky
Due is a master wordsmith.
@tananarivedue.bsky.social #BookSky
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Seriously.
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Seriously.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
You couldn't pay me to book air travel right now.
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
You couldn't pay me to book air travel right now.
Fave post so far 😂
(And I loved it btw)
(And I loved it btw)
I'll be honest, I lost interest in GDT's FRANKENSTEIN when I learned it would be ignoring an integral part of the original novel.
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Fave post so far 😂
(And I loved it btw)
(And I loved it btw)