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DarkLiterata iykyk
@darkliterata.bsky.social
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i read slowly & often 📚 • queer black librarian 🏳️‍🌈 • anti-oppression educator ✊🏾 • kidlit scholar, reviewer, guide author 🤓 • high key trekkie 🖖🏾
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First time seeing my name on a book...I'm feeling awfully good about it 🥰

Good trouble coming soon!
bookstore.emerald.com/critical-rac...
Grey and white cover image for Critical Race Theory in LIS: Challenging White Supremacy in Libraries, edited by Mónica Colón-Aguirre, Nicole A. Cooke, Aisha M. Johnson, and Anastasia M. Collins
February 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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That about sums it up
GIF of Michael from The Good Place saying "Look, there are plenty of awful people and thoughtless jerks,..." In a second GIF, Michael from The Good Place continues, "...and, I guess Nazis again, somehow." In a final GIF Michael from The Good Place finishes, "But there are also good people who are really trying to be good, and they aren't getting close."
January 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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💅🏾💅🏾💅🏾
Screenshot of Tumblr post from user PossessesNightShift: "maybe if that united healthcare shooter knocks out 33 more CEOs he'll be up to 34 felonies and he can run for president..."
December 9, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Evergreen
Twitter post by @tinyorc: "Money can't buy happiness" means "the mindless accumulation of excess wealth ultimately leads to diminishing returns on happiness." It does not mean "poor people should learn to be content without basic necessities or financial security."
November 24, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Trans Day of Remembrance
Nov 20, 2024

art by Gracie Lee Art www.instagram.com/gracieleeart...
A woman in a white dress holds up a lit white candle. Her expression is solemn with eyes closed. A blue, pink, and white cloud billows up from her candle's flame. She is surrounded by pink and blue flowers, a peace symbol, other hands (white, pink, and blue) also raising white candles, and the Transgender Flag. Words around her say "Transgender Day of Remembrance" and "End the Violence."
November 20, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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What stage of chronic onlineness is it when every meme reads you for filth?
A meme with a European Renaissance-style Jesus Christ holding a baby and blessing a kneeling woman, who is hiding her face in her hands. Jesus is captioned: "Me at 06:00 a.m." The shining light of blessing is captioned: "'You are allowed to sleep for 15 more minutes'" The kneeling woman is captioned: "Me at 06:00 a.m."
November 20, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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The meditative series sounds like a good way to start the new year. It should be just the right length to see me through to spring break
Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies: "Contemplation: How does silence feel to you in this season? Like a friend? A risk? A darkness? Why do you think this is? How do you distinguish a silence that is oppressive from that which is liberating? What emotions, hungers, or fears in you need a voice in this season? What other noises tend to drown them out?" Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies: "From "Staying Human"- a 10-week meditative audio series from Black Liturgies found only on the Ritual app. Listen to the full audio series on the Ritual app today."
November 20, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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I always appreciate these breaths from Black Liturgies
Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies: "For when you can no longer hear yourself" "On silence and staying human" Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies: "For those of us who have known a silence that wasn't chosen but was demanded or imposed, it can be difficult to consider it as healing. But some silences are defiant. "In a world whose noise will not relent, silence is both a mercy and portal. "Some silence carries you home to yourself." Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies: "How good it is to center down! To sit quietly and see one's self pass by! The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic; Our spirits resound with clashings, with noisy silences, While something deep within hungers and thirsts for the still moment and the resting lull." -Howard Thurman Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies: "Inhale: I listen for my voice Exhale: Silence is a portal"
November 20, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Literally led with "unbothered." What's not clicking?
Screenshot of a Tumblr thread. The original post is an image of a happy Dragonite and several other Pokémon sitting in a small river. Off to the right, a Pikachu appears to be struggling in the water. A caption describing the happy Dragonite reads: "unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing." Reply from user i-am-the-fourth-heat: "pikachu is drowning" Reply from user colourofthekites: "This ain't about him"
November 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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The accuracy
Screenshot of a Tumblr post and reply: serial-unaliver: "it's your right as a pedestrian to cross the street whenever you feel like it " massachusetts-official: "Official Post of Massachusetts
November 19, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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Ooo!
Showing Up & Showing Out: A Look Into Digital Black Girlhood in Contemporary Times Join the Global Black Studies program for a lecture by Dr. Kay Coghill on Digital Black Girlhood on November 18th at 5:00 pm in Hunter Library 186. November 18th, 2024 5:00 pm Location: Hunter Library 186 Western Carolina University For more information, please contact Jazmyne Baylor jbaylor@wcu.edu.
November 18, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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#AddBlacksky
Instagram post from @BlackLiturgies: "No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep." -Zora Neale Hurston
November 13, 2024 at 3:00 AM