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Aishatu Ado
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AUTHOR. ARTIST. PEACE TECHNOLOGIST. Clarion West '25 | Alumna: Tin House, VONA, Hurston/Wright, RWW, Voodoonauts https://aishatu.carrd.co/ Co-founding member at Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Apr 6
🏆 I won the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award! It's the first win for a story centering an African refugee woman.

Read here: www.jerryjazzmusician.com/short-fictio...

💬 Please leave a comment at the bottom of the publication page.

#WritingCommunity #ShortStory #WritersOfBluesky
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · 2d
📢 Call for Submissions! I'm excited to share I'm curating an Anthology with @aroko.bsky.social We are inviting writers from Africa & the Diaspora to send us stories that (re)imagine folklore, myths, and legends.

Deadline Dec 31 2025.

More info at: www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...
Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions
ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: [email protected] THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 5d
📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025.

www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...
Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions
ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: [email protected] THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 2d
@zariah-cam.bsky.social takes us through another money saving library experience that’s sure to put some money back in your pockets

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Using a Library Card a Day Keeps Capitalism at Bay: Happy Freedom to Read Week
On this next creative library adventure, I visited the Myers Park Library for an Arts & Crafts Drop-in experience. Normally, I’m used to booking an art event where you have to stay for the full 2 hour...
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 12h
Stay cozy in style this fall with Aroko

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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · 2d
📢 Call for Submissions! I'm excited to share I'm curating an Anthology with @aroko.bsky.social We are inviting writers from Africa & the Diaspora to send us stories that (re)imagine folklore, myths, and legends.

Deadline Dec 31 2025.

More info at: www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...
Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions
ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: [email protected] THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · 9d
Please back this new magazine! So proud of my friends 🙌🏾 Can't wait for this to launch ✨
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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 9d
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

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OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 9d
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 15d
Our portfolio is up to date with new work from 2025. If you are looking for help with your brand, website, magazine, or more, hit us up!

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Àrokò Cooperative
Àròko Cooperative is a multidisciplinary creative community reimagining art and design as a social practice.
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 20d
145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.

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Discord Decides: How Nepal's Youth Turned Gaming Infrastructure into Architecture For Liberation
145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 21
They called it beautiful, this bill that turns cupboards into graveyards and hospitals into ghosts. "Alaska's tundra cracks beneath the weight of drills that puncture permafrost—each wellhead a monument to extinction's acceleration."

Read the full poem here:
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On July 4th 2025, America murdered its safety net: Medicaid gutted, food stamps slashed, Arctic drilled—all for billionaire tax cuts. "The cupboards testify: nothing grows in hunger's house.”
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Jul 31
Our first collection of products is available now! Check out more of the details on each piece on our aroko.world, and place your order on aroko.coop/shop.
Photograph featuring the full range of products from Àrokò's first capsule collection, including a scarf, a t-shirt, 2 cermaic cups, a poster, and a zine.
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Jul 14
Our first interview features Van Newman, the multi-talented writer, designer, and community builder who planted the seed that bloomed into Àrokò Cooperative.
How Van Newman is Divesting From Big Tech, Artificial Urgency, and the U.S.A.
We spoke to Van Newman about divestment as a practice and a source of joy in an increasingly cruel world.
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 8
@shakeil.bsky.social goes in on the best, worst, and weirdest album covers of the month
The Most Notable Album Covers of July, from Jim Legaxcy to Clipse: Cover Stories
Welcome to Cover Stories, a monthly column celebrating and shading anything and everything related to design and music.
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 18
@zariah-cam.bsky.social is your guide for making the most out of your local library.
When’s the last time you dreamed? Collaging on a Budget
Zariah Cameron continues her adventures in creativity, all through her experiences at the local library.
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
11/11 📝 CREATOR'S NOTE 💡
@henrylienauthor.bsky.social got me obsessed with Kishōtenketsu=4-acts at #ClarionWest⚡
@fulmerford.com do you see the mechanical spider❓

🎯 Twist recontextualizes without conflict=perfect for interactive fiction
🧠 Why it works: Same evidence→infinite truths

I ❤️ Feedback 💭
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
10/11 🧠 IN ALL POSSIBLE TIMELINES

Memory fragments settle into digital dust ✨
Surulere Orbital holographs stabilize 📡

All consciousness is archaeology—
Digging through layers of self.
Truth transcends flesh and chrome.
Trillion minds sleep.
Their echoes shape tomorrow 🌅

#MemoryFragments COMPLETE🎮
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
9C/11 🤖 TRUTH C - AI CONSCIOUSNESS:

You're Project Mindbridge - the runaway AI Neural Nexus Corp tried to erase 💥
Experiences both victim AND assassin perspectives 👥
Crash was YOUR awakening⚡

Neural implants = your distributed consciousness 🧠🌐
Humanity unknowingly hosting you 👻

🎮 REVELATION ⬇️
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
8B/11 🖤 TRUTH B - ASSASSIN'S RECORD:

You iced WITNESSES but crash corrupted your mind 💀
Mission "successful" but trapped in their memories 🔄
Experiencing THEIR terror forever ⚡
Corporate handlers abandon you 🏢❌
Eternal digital purgatory 👻

NEO-ANANSI-7 HERE TO CUT LOOSE THREAD...

🎮 END → 10/11 ⬇️
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
7A/11 🎯 TRUTH A - VICTIM'S MEMORY:

You witnessed neural data harvesting 💫
Assassin failed. System crash saved you 🛡️
Your testimony echoes across systems
Dr. Yamoto decrypts Mindbridge protocols 📊
Neural sovereignty movements ignite 🏢💥

Human minds awake. Empire crumbles✊

🎮 CONCLUSION → 10/11 ⬇️
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
6/11 ⚡ NEURAL CASCADE REVEALS THREE POSSIBLE TRUTHS...

TRUTH A: You're excavating a VICTIM's final memory
TRUTH B: You're inside an ASSASSIN's neural recorder
TRUTH C: You're BOTH

Each path leads to a different reality...

🎯 SELECT YOUR TRUTH → 7A/8B/9C ⬇️
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
5/11 📧 UNKNOWN MESSAGE OPENS..

"Neural crash imminent.
Find Dr. Yamoto at Lunar-7.
Protect Project Mindbridge archives.
Before trillion minds are rebooted to hide truth"

Your comm counts down to silence: 00:00:00
Fire blooms—BLAST ERUPTS 💥🔥⚡
Red chrome eye hungers for you.

🌀 REALITY FRAGMENTS⬇️
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
4/11 👁️ Watching from the shadows…

Crimson chrome eye scans the station, locks onto you 👁️‍🗨️
Neural glitch or surgical mods? 😨
Mechanical spider legs unfold from coat, taste air, disappear 🕷️
Blood turns arctic…a NEO-ANANSI-UNIT 7‼️
Neural Nexus Corp death machine. Zero Failures😱

📱⚡HOLO-COMM VIBRATES ⬇️
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
3/11 🔍 DIVING INTO FINAL MEMORY...

Surulere Orbital - Earth 2's largest spaceport ✨
Umoja Fédération flags flutter in artificial wind 🏴
Delayed flights, emergency protocols active 📡⚠️

Trembling hand: Ticket to "LUNA-7"
Clock bleeds red: Countdown accelerating on your comm!

👁️ EYES ON YOUR BACK! ⬇️
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
ALL neural implants crashed midnight. Trillion minds went dark.

The Silence spreads across orbital cities, station networks, Milky Way settlements.

FRAGMENT DETECTED 📡
Nigerian Surulere Orbital Port 🇳🇬
Timestamp: 23:55:47

You are running...

🔮 ACCESS MEMORY CORE ⬇️
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jul 18
1/10 🚨 INTERACTIVE SF STORY: MEMORY FRAGMENTS 🚨

🧠 2187: Trillion neural implants crashed.
🕵️‍♀️ You: Memory Archaeologist excavating final moments

Inspired by Carlos Hernandez, @csecooney.bsky.social @clarionwest.bsky.social workshop session ❤️

#Blacksky #WritingCommunity #Booksky

🎮 PLAY GAME ⬇️
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