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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

@ebonyteach.blacksky.app

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Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. ΔΣΘ ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel). Linktree: Ebonyteach.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 6d

A bit frazzled this afternoon, but taking a quick moment out of my busy schedule to remind myself that every day is a gift.

"That's why they call it the present." 🎁

10/1/2025. Let's go!

Ebonyteach in her campus office. Wednesday, October 1, 2025.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 5m

In a world rife with unlove, chock full of lovelessness... we love anyway.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 6m

Black folks know how to live through troubled times. Better than most in this Godforsaken nation.

I want us to learn how to live during times of peace and prosperity, too. Starting to wonder if that's too much to ask...

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 8m

The week they killed #PhilandoCastile and #AltonSterling, Donny singing this song was on repeat in my treehouse, day and night.

Grew up with this. It will always be part of any soundtrack that says that our lives matter. To us, and to God! if to no one else.

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Je Vous Aime (I Love You)

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 2h

#ColorADay #RedWed
#macro

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

The image shows a close-up of a red Gerbera daisy.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

August 2025. In a local nursery.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 2h

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
~ L. M. Montgomery

A joyful #RoseWednesday to you all 🌱 #FlowerReport 💮 #BloomScrolling🌹

Light yellow 'Peace' rose bloom, green leaves in the background

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 16m

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tv off (feat. lefty gunplay)

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 17m

Daily, I hear Kendrick in the back of my mind - "It's not enough!"

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/...

We Lived Happily During the War

And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by...

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 18m

I keep thinking about that famous Ilya Kaminsky poem, "We Lived Happily During the War," today. 💔

I am so busy this month, I'm basically flying. But I'm thinking about the conditional nature of our privilege & comfort. (And who suffers to make it possible.)

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/...

We Lived Happily During the War

And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by...

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 20m

This has nothing to do with the fact that we live under a dictatorship right now, but all I really want is another cup of coffee and 4-6 hours during daylight to sit for a braid appointment 😭

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 1h

criticism is not the same thing as "being mad at" for the love of all the things

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 23m

💜💜💜 #truerwords

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d

www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

Quote from book THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP about the midwest

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

I was making butter beans yesterday and at the final stage decided to throw in the little pat of leftover butter. It was the right choice. I had a similar realization:

Marielle Papin @mariellepm.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve been cooking like a grandma, adding more butter, cream and/or salt to everything and I must say, there’s a reason why grandmas’ cooking is so popular.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2h

This is why, despite frustrations, I do think that Johnson (especially) and Pritzker are genuinely showing courage.

Details from Reuters, which explicitly makes the link to the prosecution of Comey:

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1h

A lack of parking in places people need to go. I feel like the place was more walking and biking accessible in the 90s and 2000s… now it’s just crowded!

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1h

Agreed! We need mass transit desperately in this region!

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1h

This makes so much sense… certainly true of Ann Arbor, where more people can’t afford to live.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1h

A lack of parking in places people need to go. I feel like the place was more walking and biking accessible in the 90s and 2000s… now it’s just crowded.

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Stephanie @bookfrolic.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill - several thrills?" ~ Anne of Green Gables

Who else loves this season?

A graphic with several watercolour illustrations of Autumn-related items, including orange, yellow and brown maple leaves, a blue hooded sweatshirt, a red apple, two marshmallows on two sticks, a lit candle, a transparent cup of apple cider with an apple slice and a cinnamon stick, a pink cup and saucer of tea, three pumpkins, several trees with yellow and orange leaves, a roasted turkey, and a slice of pumpkin pie. Text reads I'm so glad i live in a world where there are Octobers. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables. book frolic

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 4d

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
- L.M. Montgomery

🎨 Naoko Stoop

Illustration of a girl in an autumn wood, surrounded by fairies and cats. Artist: Naoko Stoop

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 12h

lol "why should I care about Black people?" because not caring about us is how we got here. 🤷🏿‍♀️

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