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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 18h

A surprising upside to Taylor Swift's very mid new album:

Galvanizing thousands of extremely online Swifties to campaign against the use of generative AI for creative work.

Fans Call on Taylor Swift to ‘Do Better’ After Accusations of Using AI for Promo Videos

A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign.

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 2d

bsky.app/profile/cand... also this thread

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 13d

One Battle After Another has definitely got some things going for it (it's wildly entertaining and the performances are top-notch). But it also makes clear why Anderson rarely centers Black women in his films. The white male characters portrayed by DiCaprio and Penn are more prominent, realized...

a man and a woman walking down a sidewalk with #one battle after another written on the bottom

ALT: a man and a woman walking down a sidewalk with #one battle after another written on the bottom

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 2d

blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle... and darkskylady.com/one-battle-a...

One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

blackgirlwatching.substack.com

Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 2d

Aisha Harris at NPR wrote a great one :)

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 2d

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In. capitalbnews.org/black-parent...

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

capitalbnews.org

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 2d

god this vibe just from the promotion tbh

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 5d

“Bad Bunny is more American than the first lady!” “Here’s what Chuck Schumer can learn from Bad Bunny!” “Puerto Rico is the U.S!”

My kingdom for liberals to stop using Puerto Ricans as a rhetorical device and actually engage with the uncomfortable fact that we are colonized subjects.

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 7d

this should be concerning

thegrio.com/2025/10/02/i...

In Black columnist's firing, advocates fear decreasing diversity, vital perspectives in news media

The firing of Karen Attiah from the Washington Post “raised an alarm about the erosion of Black voices across the media" to activists.

thegrio.com

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 9d

So many movies and TV shows that are ~made by studios/streamers (aka the big shots)~ never get seen by a sizable audience (the same is true of individual journalism stories from just about any outlet) because it's incredibly hard to cut thru the noise and get stuff in front of people

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes I see posts where people advocate for creative folks or journalists to divest from the larger systems of employment and "start your own!" and I understand the sentiment! But then there's never any discussion of the logistics (which are a *substantial* challenge even for existing entities)

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 9d

One thing this article doesn't cover is that most books don't "earn out" their advances, true--but that the magic of publisher accounting is a large component of why that's so, and an author not earning out does NOT mean the publisher didn't profit extensively.

Far from.

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Anna Rose Holmer @annaroseholmer.bsky.social · 9d

more Regina Hall

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 10d

I also am excited for the rest of her career but it is hard to see lots of white people talking about how amazing she is and how she's a breakout when that sort of treatment seems to only happen to biracial actresses with light skin. I don't know. A lot going on.

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 10d

i thought Chase Infiniti was amazing but I can't help but... sort of think about how the light skinned biracial woman is the one leading the movie, while the women who are darker than her play supporting roles/help further her journey before basically just disappearing from OBAA

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 10d

For me the father/daughter story tbh, not so much the political stuff

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 12d

whew excited to read this one. as a writer i'm constantly thinking about this while trying to build my career and it's so out of my control. it sucks that writers get penalized for low sales or whatever when we can't really do much compared to publishers

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

To write about sales track is, essentially, to write about everything—career longevity, creative pressure, labor issues, capital, and what winds up on readers' bookshelves:

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 12d

Just realized I have no idea how to add a link to my bio here. So just know that you can pre-order anywhere you get books, especially my local indie, Books are Magic! www.booksaremagic.net/item/k9JCycu...

In Between Days by Camryn Garrett | Books Are Magic

www.booksaremagic.net

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 12d

Ah, thank youuu <3 <3 <3

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you Iesha! ❤️

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 13d

...The one major exception is Infiniti, who is tremendous. Still, it's hard for me to call the film a "masterpiece" and "relevant" when it has such deep flaws and vaguely gestures toward a political ethos without really engaging with it.

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 13d

...more prominent, realized, and developed than those played by Taylor and Hall, whom the director can't seem to get a handle on and leans on stereotypes before disappearing them altogether in the film...

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 12d

COVER REVEAL!

I'm so, so excited to share the cover for my new epistolary YA novel, IN BETWEEN DAYS! Out May 12, 2026. Preorder link in bio!

Designer: Zareen Johnson
Artist: Alexis Franklin

Ther cover of my book! There's a girl with braids staring at us, and strips of ripped paper that read IN BETWEEN DAYS by Camryn Garrett. The tagline reads "You don't know what you have until it's gone..."

When her mother refuses entry to a stranger named Richard at her father’s funeral, 17-year-old Mira Howard doesn’t understand why. But snooping through her father’s things reveals that Richard was her father’s boyfriend—a boyfriend she never knew about. In fact, Mira never even knew for sure that her dad was gay. Hoping to feel more connected to her late father, Mira reaches out to Richard without telling her mom, who is still angry from the divorce. As Mira and Richard become closer, Mira gains more and more insight into the side of her father that she never got to see.

Grieving that she never got to connect with her dad about their shared queerness, Mira asks that Richard teach her “how to be queer” while she navigates a new crush on her co-worker, which brings her out of her diary and into the real world.

But as Mira grows more confident in herself, she finds it hard to keep her relationship with Richard a secret, questioning why her family never talked about her father’s sexuality in the first place. Soon Mira has to decide if she wants to keep the peace or honor her father’s memory by being her truest self.

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 13d

. @aishaharris.bsky.social points to some of my issues with One Battle After Another her review www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...

'One Battle After Another' wants a revolution

Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Teyana Taylor star in Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller about the unfulfilled promises of protest and rebellion.

www.npr.org

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