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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

i did! thanks for sharing tho.

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

@krakenhugger.bsky.social did amazing work with me on this book!

MM…Fortune @krakenhugger.bsky.social · 1d

Had the honor to be a lettering assistant on it! Pick up a copy today!!!

Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 1d

HAVE YOU HEARD about the most exciting event at NYCC? The LIVE 700th Episode of PW's MORE TO COME podcast! With the whole MtC crew and guests @ngoziu.com @cliffchiang.bsky.social and @benpassmore.bsky.social! Join us Saturday 5:15 in room 408 for this all-star conversation about comics! #nycc

Join the MtC crew Mef Lemke, Kate Fitzsimons, Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald LIVE on stage with guests Cliff Chiang, (Wonder Woman), Ben Passmore (Black Arms to Hold You Up) and Ngozi Ukazu (Flip!)
Saturday, October 11
5:15
Room 408

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

I absolutely loved Ben Passmore's "Black Arms to Hold You Up," a short, passionate history of what happens when Black people shoot back.

In This Graphic History, an Unflinching Look at Black Activism

www.nytimes.com

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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 2d

This Wednesday at 8p CST/9p EST I'll be speaking w/ Ben Passmore (Your Black Friend and Other Strangers) and Rex Ogle (Punching Bag, Road Home) as part of the @everylibrary.bsky.social Banned Books program,
"Stories Under Fire: #Comics, #Censorship, and #Resistance."
www.youtube.com/live/aWyjmxa...

Stories Under Fire: Comics, Censorship, and Resistance with Jarrett Dapier and Ben Passmore

YouTube video by EveryLibrary

www.youtube.com

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

New books this week: Thomas Pynchon's first novel in 12 years, and much more

In addition to Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, this week's releases include a new memoir from Dopesick author Beth Macy, and a coming-of-age story from former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.

www.npr.org

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Possum Punkins Comics Bodega🎃 @possumpunks.com · 1d

If you're in Detroit Metro, or are attending the Ban this Book fest on Saturday, you can find copies of Black Arms to Hold You Up at my shop

There will also be a limited number of Your Black Friend and Other Strangers zines available to BtB Fest attendees.

Bookshop.org is also having a sale rn!

Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

Bet, it’ll start at 5:15pm

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

I am! I’ll be at Desert Island comics on the 16th of this month at 7pm. I’ll be at Comic Con this weekend too for a @publisherswkly.bsky.social panel

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

thank yooooou

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671968...

Black Arms to Hold You Up by Ben Passmore: 9780593316122 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force It’s the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. “You’re....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 6d

“Mr. Coates thinks racism is a problem, but has he ever considered that some people think black people are the problem? I’m very smart.”

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 6d

she don’t want that smoke fr. he would body that question.

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 12d

ain’t no mfing way.

Tiricohairline @trejames.bsky.social · 12d

Tupacs mom passed in 2016 yall. That was Afeni Shakur.

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 12d

it’s been confirmed by her family that she had transitioned.

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve seen some skeptical posts about this, but I’ve been hearing for a long time that her health wasn’t great.

So I’m gonna wait, but very sad to hear.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

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inblacknwhite @imagetree.bsky.social · 16d

I didn't want to be an intellectual spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

- Assata Shakur / #marxistmonday

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 12d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇

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Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo @massmice.bsky.social · 16d

Ben Passmore is the author and illustrator of the comics Your Black Friend and Other Strangers (2018) and the Eisner Award-winning Sports Is Hell (2020).

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 17d

Let’s get into our abs era in 2025.

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 17d

is it weird that the Him made me want to get back in the gym.

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