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Just Jenn (she/her)
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Supporting BIPOC, Queer & Trans initiatives with digital presence (i.e. my team and I make Websites, Apps and Design) | Sci Fi Lover | Blerd |The Sims 4 Addict | Fluffy pet owner | May read too much |🩷💜💙
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@eveewing.bsky.social's 'Original Sins' is a necessary piece on the origins of the American education system. When even Home Ec isn't just about food within a system that, at its core, is meant to control differing populations, where do we go from here?

#BlackBookSky #EducationSky #BookSky
Book cover for Original Sins by Eve L. Ewing. Red shape resembling a bitten apple with black handwritten text. A small, silhouetted figure stands on the left. Subtext reads: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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'The Man in my Basement' by Walter Mosley is an excellent show of power not being just a physical state but a mental, psychological hold as we watch the main character bend to the will of a man who seemingly has no control at all.

#BlackBookSky #BlackReaders #BlackSky #DiverseBookSky
Book cover for The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley, featuring a man in a suit standing in darkness with a bright light bulb hanging in front of his face. The author’s name and title are in bold, modern font above.
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Sad that I have a whole workday standing in between me and finishing 'Hole in the Sky' by @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social .

First contact, visions of the future, & mysterious bruise tattoos of DNA?
Sold.

#BlackReaders #IndigenousAuthor #SciFiSky #BookSky #DiverseBookSky
Book cover for Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson, showing a large eye in the sky above clouds and green grass, with the title and author’s name in bold black letters.
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Did the nerdiest thing possible after a dr appt. Looked at my dr's site while taking notes & decided to update her resources page look w/a couple hours' time to show my appreciation. Screenshot of old - Set up I made her: nurture-well-center-resources.tiiny.site
#BlackDoctor #BlackInTech #BlackSky
Main heading “Educational Resources” introduces the section. The first item is a “Peri/menopause symptom tracker” available for download, featuring a visual preview of the tracker worksheet. Below, a series of webinar replay listings are presented as separate blocks, each featuring the date, webinar title (such as “Discussing Hypnotherapy in Perimenopause and Menopause,” “Perimenopause 101,” “Nutrition Myths,” and others), speaker names—sometimes shown with a portrait photo or small icon—plus a concise summary sentence for each webinar’s focus. Most webinar entries include a bold “Watch Here” replay button; some require access passcodes shown beside the links. The webinar topics span perimenopause, menopause, nutrition, health equity, vibrational sound therapy, supplements, acupuncture, chronic pain, foot health, oral health, film screenings, cooking demos, and more. Visual content is integrated throughout, with speaker images, topical icons, or supplementary graphics associated with each event. The overall content layout is structured as a list of individual resource blocks for easy browsing and replay access.
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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My bookclub read:
'Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel' by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social

It's a fight for the culture in Steampunk Indianapolis

Are you a #BlackReader that enjoys Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Horror by #BlackAuthors ? Join us! discord.gg/PU6wqYMq

#BlackBookSky #BlackSky #BookSky
Book cover for Pimp My Airship by Maurice Broaddus, featuring a large steampunk airship flying over a dark, urban cityscape with Victorian-style buildings and a car in the foreground.
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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'Mem' by @bethanycmorrow.com In the first quarter of the 1900s, a Montreal scientist can extract memories, as versions of their subjects frozen in a single moment in time. But, meet Dorothy Extract #1, the 1st memory extraction that can create its own memories

#BlackBookSky #BlackSky #SciFiBook
Book cover for MEM: a novel by Bethany C. Morrow. The title MEM is in large gold letters over a faint image of a vault door. The publishers logo, unnamed press, is in the bottom right corner.
October 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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What lengths are you willing to go to to save humanity's future?

'The Final Orchard' by @cjriveraauthor.bsky.social is a mix of Hugh Howey (Silo) &
Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Go), with a few twists and an ending begging for a part 2

#Dystopian #LatinaAuthor #BlackReaders #DiverseBookSky
Book cover featuring yellow autumn leaves swirling around a large DNA double helix. The title reads “The Final Orchard” in bold yellow letters, with the tagline “Perfection is Paramount” above. Author: CJ Rivera.
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Feels like 2025 is my year to go back to a love of Vampires. First, 'Buffalo Hunter Hunter' by @sgj.bsky.social , Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' , and now 'Blood Slaves' by @markusredmond.bsky.social . What a year for horror!

#BlackBookSky #BookSky #BlackSky #BlackReaders #HorrorSky
Book cover for Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond. The title is in large red and white letters over dark, clawed hands reaching for a plantation style home with blood spatters in the background.
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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A little near future sci fi action to catch up on before book club tonight!

'The Ephemera Collector' by @stayseajackson.bsky.social

#BlackSky #BlackBookSky #DiverseBookSky #BookSky
Book cover for The Ephemera Collector by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, featuring a woman's face with dreadlocks, two buildings, trees, and a reflective blue pool in the foreground under a glowing sky.
July 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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'An Unkindness of Ghosts' by @riverssolomon.bsky.social explores gender, race, and class through the eyes of an MC who wants to heal.

Star Trek this is not. The HSS Matilda has long journey ahead before a Utopia can be met for all its inhabitants.

#BlackBookSky #BlackSky #QueerBookSky #BookSky
Book cover for An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, featuring an illustrated face of a person overlaid with a star-filled galaxy background. The title and authors name are displayed in bold, artistic fonts.
July 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Good classic read from 1931. With a "cure" for Blackness, can folks escape the bigotry that has been holding them back?

What happens to culture and communities when people are offered the ability to blend in and lean into whiteness?

#BlackBookSky #BlackSky #SciFiBook #DiverseBookSky #BookSky
Cover of the novel Black No More by George S. Schuyler. The background shows a sepia-toned image of a man in a suit, with bold white title text across the image. The cover mentions an introduction by Ishmael Reed.
July 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I really wanted to like this book. "This is Not a Ghost Story" by Amerie has an interesting premise but the execution and landing really threw me.

#BlackSky #BlackBookSky #BlackAuthor #AAPIAuthor #BookSky
Book cover for "This Is Not a Ghost Story" by Amerie, featuring text over an open door frame set against a blue ocean and sky background.
July 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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'More Perfect' by @Temi Oh is like the tech of "The Entire History of You" (S1 E3 of 'Black Mirror') but several decades in the future. The world it creates, the danger with such technology is both exhilarating and frightening.

#BlackBookSky #DiverseBookSky #BlackSky #BookSky #SciFiReads
Book cover for More Perfect by Temi Oh. The title and authors name are centered over a vibrant, colorful, circular pattern resembling light refracted through the lens of a seemingly multicolored, glass eye. A quote from NPR reads, “Oh is fantastic.”.
May 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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What a great way to start the weekend!

May all the people who vacation at plantations and plan to get kicked swiftly in the shins 🤷🏾

#NottowayPlantation #BurnBabyBurn

Video from @bernardtaylorforcongress on Instagram
May 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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A futuristic & otherworldly heist, queer love, and a celebration of Hawaiian culture? I'm in.

Current Read: 'Hammajang Luck' by @makana-yama.bsky.social

#AAPIAuthor #SciFiReads #QueerLit #QueerBookSky #NonBinaryAuthor #DiverseBookSky #BlackReaders #BookSky
Illustrated book cover of Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto shows a person in a red hoodie and yellow pants sitting on a rooftop, with a futuristic cityscape, sunset clouds, and text promoting it as A Sci-Fi Heist.
May 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Current Read: 'The Eyes are the Best Part' by Monika Kim

As Ji-won's family unravels, the inclusion of a less than desirable new person in her mother's life seemingly starts to bring her nightmares to life.

#AsianAuthor #BlackReaders #DiverseBookSky #BookSky #HorrorBooksky
Book cover for The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim, featuring an eyeball with a blue iris held by decorated chopsticks against a blue patterned background, with bold white and red text.
May 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Current read: 'Model Home' by Rivers Solomon

Told from the viewpoint of a nonbinary main character, it's the paranormal meets white supremacy meets familial trauma wherein 3 adult siblings try to find out what really happened to their parents.

#BlackBooksky #BlackSky #QueerBookSky #DiverseBookSky
Book cover for Model Home by Rivers Solomon, featuring a black-and-white house on a dark hill with one lit yellow window, bold black and cream title text on a red background.
May 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Interesting concept but left with quite a few questions. A sci fi grappling with the idea of loss.

'The Memory Police' by Yoko Ogawa

#SciFiBooks #SciFiSky #BookSky #DiverseBookSky #AsianAuthor #BlackReaders
Book cover for The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. It shows a blue-tinted womans face, partially obscured by white and red abstract sketch of parts of her face overtaking portions of the photo, with a gold seal and a National Book Award Finalist badge
April 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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When a cure for cancer becomes a cure for mortality.

Gotta love a tale of a nanite future and the inevitable imagining of, 'How quickly will this be militarized?'"

'Toward Eternity' by Anton Hur

#SciFiBookSky #QueerBookSky #BlackReaders #AsianAuthor #DiverseBookSky #BookSky
Book cover for "Toward Eternity: A Novel" by Anton Hur, featuring bold white text over a surreal purple blue and pink landscape with flowers, vines, and a large moon in the background.
April 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This book eloquently brings a magnifying glass to the juxtaposition between western culture's "civility" vs its continued abuses and atrocities aimed at those deemed "other".

'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' by Omar El Akkad

#DiverseBookSky #ArabAuthor #BookSky #BlackReaders
A red book cover for "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad, Author of American War. The cover features black abstract art featuring a sketch of a child holding flowers with a raised hand toward a falling missile.
April 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Life is Lifing, but I'm just thankful for the chance to continue my current read, 'Do You Dream of Terra-Two?' by Temi Oh

Nothing like an adventure to a new planet to take you out of the present.

#BlackBookSky #SciFiReads #DiverseBookSky #BlackSky #BlerdSky #BookSky
Book cover of Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh, featuring a close-up of a Black woman in a space helmet gazing upwards. The background is a cosmic scene.
April 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Ah capitalism...

#OGBopCat #BlackSky #ComedySky
April 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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For #TransDayOfVisibility , here's a short list of Sci Fi and Fantasy books by tans and/or non-binary authors of color!

#TransLit #TransAuthor #QueerLit #BlackReaders #DiverseBooksky #SciFiBooks #FantasyBooks
Stylized book list titled SFF Books by BIPOC Trans and Non-Binary Authors. Features seven books: Pet by Awkaeke Emezi Tags: Young Adult, Magical Realism, Fantasy The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang Tags: Novella, Fantasy, Science Fiction Darknesses by Lachelle Seville Tags: Vampires, Horror, Romance Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Tags: Space Opera, Fantasy An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Tags: Science Fiction, Dystopian Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia Tags: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
March 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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And the winner is @mslolo22.bsky.social !

Sending you a DM!
Profile picture of a person displayed within a circular frame. Text above reads Winner, and below, Lo with the handle mslolo22.bsky.social on a black background.
March 31, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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#TheWriteWomen challenge: Post a book by a woman author every day in March.

Rules:
Must be a book you’ve read
Must be a book you enjoyed or learned something from

Severance by Ling Ma

A 2018 pandemic release featuring a haunting disease

#DiverseBookSky #BookSky #PostApocalyptic #BlackReaders
Pale pink book cover featuring Severance by Ling Ma. A torn corner reveals brown paper underneath. A silver sticker reads The New York Times Book Review A Notable Book of the Year. A quote by Michael Schaub from NPR is at the bottom reads, "Stunning [and] audacious... with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring".
March 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM