Sarah Jane Cervenak
@sjcerv.bsky.social
Author of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ and ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’
Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’
Views my own
Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’
Views my own
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"For music and the ornaments of air
without bombing"-
Dionne Brand, Inventory
without bombing"-
Dionne Brand, Inventory
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"For music and the ornaments of air
without bombing"-
Dionne Brand, Inventory
without bombing"-
Dionne Brand, Inventory
This book is beautiful! Highly recommend 💐💐
Save 30% on "The City of Our Dreaming," which collects the third #AlchemyLectures with contributions from @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, @biidaasamose.bsky.social,
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, & Gabriela Leandro Pereira.
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@hystericalblkns.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, & Gabriela Leandro Pereira.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This book is beautiful! Highly recommend 💐💐
Received a note today with kind words about my writing. Means alot 💐
I love this. A favorite practice
“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything, tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”
Victoria Wright
“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything, tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”
Victoria Wright
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Received a note today with kind words about my writing. Means alot 💐
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Please read. And share. And contribute.
Today I will try to raise some funds for places and initiatives I support and that need continual support. It was my birthday on Tuesday but I was traveling all day.
I’ll add to the list throughout the day.
I’ll add to the list throughout the day.
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please read. And share. And contribute.
"What poetry allows is the removal of parts of speech so that a life may make sense to itself."
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand
December 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"What poetry allows is the removal of parts of speech so that a life may make sense to itself."
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand
I love this. A favorite practice
“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything, tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”
Victoria Wright
“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything, tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”
Victoria Wright
December 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I love this. A favorite practice
“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything, tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”
Victoria Wright
“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything, tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”
Victoria Wright
"For music and the ornaments of air
without bombing"-
Dionne Brand, Inventory
without bombing"-
Dionne Brand, Inventory
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"For music and the ornaments of air
without bombing"-
Dionne Brand, Inventory
without bombing"-
Dionne Brand, Inventory
Reposted by Sarah Jane Cervenak
So for #GivingTuesday I have a request. My laptop is old, and practically unusable. I am a writer, poet mostly, working on 2 manuscripts and also trying my hand at fiction. I am looking to raise at least $200 towards a new one with your help. Thanks for your support 💜
Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger
Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
So for #GivingTuesday I have a request. My laptop is old, and practically unusable. I am a writer, poet mostly, working on 2 manuscripts and also trying my hand at fiction. I am looking to raise at least $200 towards a new one with your help. Thanks for your support 💜
Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger
Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger
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&so to tenderness, I add my action.”
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
&so to tenderness, I add my action.”
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
"Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to:
Would you save my life? or would you take it?"
Toni Morrison, Sula
Would you save my life? or would you take it?"
Toni Morrison, Sula
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to:
Would you save my life? or would you take it?"
Toni Morrison, Sula
Would you save my life? or would you take it?"
Toni Morrison, Sula
&so to tenderness, I add my action.”
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
&so to tenderness, I add my action.”
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay
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Let’s help them reach their goal. I’m a monthly supporter. Join me! Every single dollar helps.
Giving Tuesday might be over but we aren’t done raising funds for abortion seekers!
Our initial GT goal was $25k but unfortunately the past few weeks our team has been getting harassed, threatened, and doxxed by antis.
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Our initial GT goal was $25k but unfortunately the past few weeks our team has been getting harassed, threatened, and doxxed by antis.
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
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Give for freedom. Give for care. Give before December 31st.2025 tested us — and our community showed up.Because of people like you, the Palmetto State Abortion Fund helped more than 1,500 Southerners ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Let’s help them reach their goal. I’m a monthly supporter. Join me! Every single dollar helps.
Over the past few days, with the release of ‘BLKNWS TERMS AND CONDITIONS‘, friends have shared that our “Black Outdoors” conversation with Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman appears early in the film and was important to the filmmaker. ❤️💐
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Over the past few days, with the release of ‘BLKNWS TERMS AND CONDITIONS‘, friends have shared that our “Black Outdoors” conversation with Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman appears early in the film and was important to the filmmaker. ❤️💐
“What if building comes before property, or instead of property? What would building have to do to make blank, flat, propertied space obsolete?”
V. Mitch McEwen, “buoyant futures, after fixity, dreaming in bounce” from the beautiful book The City of Our Dreaming The Alchemy Lecture
V. Mitch McEwen, “buoyant futures, after fixity, dreaming in bounce” from the beautiful book The City of Our Dreaming The Alchemy Lecture
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“What if building comes before property, or instead of property? What would building have to do to make blank, flat, propertied space obsolete?”
V. Mitch McEwen, “buoyant futures, after fixity, dreaming in bounce” from the beautiful book The City of Our Dreaming The Alchemy Lecture
V. Mitch McEwen, “buoyant futures, after fixity, dreaming in bounce” from the beautiful book The City of Our Dreaming The Alchemy Lecture
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"He draws on texts by authors ranging from Olaudah Equiano and Herman Melville to Otis Redding and August Wilson to present a vision of blackness as an ongoing inhabitation of the deep that originates with and persists beyond Middle Passage."
And love the Calida Rawles painting on the cover.
And love the Calida Rawles painting on the cover.
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"He draws on texts by authors ranging from Olaudah Equiano and Herman Melville to Otis Redding and August Wilson to present a vision of blackness as an ongoing inhabitation of the deep that originates with and persists beyond Middle Passage."
And love the Calida Rawles painting on the cover.
And love the Calida Rawles painting on the cover.
Latest book in Black Outdoors book series. 💐💐💐for Dr. Jonathan Howard
Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies
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December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Latest book in Black Outdoors book series. 💐💐💐for Dr. Jonathan Howard
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And it’s my bday and I am traveling so late to do this but this is a good initiative to support. I’ll post more tomorrow.
hi everyone. I know need everywhere is acute right now. but @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social in my hometown has a need for about $900 worth of supplies for hygiene kits for unhoused people. I think we could cover that. would you join me in making a donation at the link?
SanctuarySupplyDepot - Open Collective
The Sanctuary Supply Depot is a central hub that fascilitates the collection and distribution of basic survival supplies for our unhoused neighbors.
opencollective.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
And it’s my bday and I am traveling so late to do this but this is a good initiative to support. I’ll post more tomorrow.
Good morning ❤️💐
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Good morning ❤️💐
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“people’s movement today is broken into categories so that managing their access to resources can be done in relation to the racial and geographical maldistribution of those resources.”—
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social 💐💐
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social 💐💐
March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“people’s movement today is broken into categories so that managing their access to resources can be done in relation to the racial and geographical maldistribution of those resources.”—
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social 💐💐
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social 💐💐
“people’s movement today is broken into categories so that managing their access to resources can be done in relation to the racial and geographical maldistribution of those resources.”—
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social 💐💐
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social 💐💐
March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“people’s movement today is broken into categories so that managing their access to resources can be done in relation to the racial and geographical maldistribution of those resources.”—
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social 💐💐
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social 💐💐
writing a little today
March 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
writing a little today
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“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
Duke sale extended one more day ❤️💐💐
Y'all @dukepress.bsky.social Spring Flash Sale right now.
50% off books with code FLASH50.
Highly recommend
- BOTH The Alchemy Lecture volumes
www.dukeupress.edu/five-manifes...
- Books in the Black Outdoors Series
www.dukeupress.edu/series/black...
#Lit
*Good looking out @sjcerv.bsky.social
50% off books with code FLASH50.
Highly recommend
- BOTH The Alchemy Lecture volumes
www.dukeupress.edu/five-manifes...
- Books in the Black Outdoors Series
www.dukeupress.edu/series/black...
#Lit
*Good looking out @sjcerv.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Duke sale extended one more day ❤️💐💐