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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory

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Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Feb 2

Also be sure to join my mailing list at www.tananarivelist.com - hubby @kundalinisteve.bsky.social and I do weekly FREE Zooms with advice on writing and stress relief.

Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Nov 8

Octavia E. Butler signed this copy of Parable of the Sower for my late mother, Patricia Stephens Due.

The power of these Black women inspired me to write an essay after Tr*mp's inauguration in 2017. I've reposted a slightly revised version I hope will bring you hope today.

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Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. Butler

I originally wrote this essay to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. It deeply grieves me to publish it…

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Ken Reid @kennethwreid.bsky.social · 3d

Thought of @tananarivedue.bsky.social when this popped up

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 4d

#31HorrorBooksforHalloween THE BETWEEN by @tananarivedue.bsky.social #horrorsky #booksky #horrorbooksky

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Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social · 4d

Ebook version of THE REFORMATORY by @tananarivedue.bsky.social is currently only $2.99 on various sites.

If you’ve not yet read this horror masterpiece, now is a great time to do so!

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry (not sorry)?

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Cristina Santos @drcristinasantos.bsky.social · 8d

The next two books on my spooky season reading. @tananarivedue.bsky.social “The Good House” (audio) and “The Year of the Witching” by Alexis Henderson.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16d

it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...

It's official: My next book is about Battlestar Galactica!

Long ago, the gods decided my fate, and I have embraced it: I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica! I made it official at the Creation convention that took place in New Jersey this past weeken...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20d

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.

When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.

I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 20d

weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 20d

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The real face of the aliens when you put on the special glasses in the movie THEY LIVE

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 20d

No you did not. 🤬

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20d

I didn’t deserve this.

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Cristina Santos @drcristinasantos.bsky.social · 21d

If you are going to pick up a book this fall make it @tananarivedue.bsky.social “The Reformatory”. Incredibly written. Draws you in with raw and gut wrenching storytelling that reminds us all of the strength in telling our stories — not just for us but for all of those whose voices were silenced.

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Netmouse @netmouse.bsky.social · 23d

This week's Friday review on AKGnetmouse.substack.com will be of Freedom in the Family, by @tananarivedue.bsky.social and her mother, Civil Rights activist Patricia Stephens Due.

I cherish my copy, which Tananarive kindly signed at Detcon1 in 2014.

The front cover of Freedom In The Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due. (One World, 2003)

The cover illustration is a B&W photo of Patricia Stephens Due, in dark sunglasses, leading a line of other young black women along a sidewalk, heads held high.

Title Page inside this copy of Freedom in the Family. It is inscribed, "To Anne -- The Dream Lives! The struggle continues." signed Tananarive Due in the middle, and Patricia Due along the bottom edge. In the top right corner, it says, "7/18/14 Detcon1"

The right side and bottom of the book are edged with several yellow post-its, marking pages of interest.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 20d

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Distópolis 📚 Temporada XI @distopolis.bsky.social · 21d

La Biblioteca De Carfax desvela la portada de la novela EL REFORMATORIO de Tananarive Due @tananarivedue.bsky.social , una historia de terror ambientada en un reformatorio de Florida bajo la segregación racial de las leyes Jim Crow y que publicará en noviembre: distopolis.com/la-bibliotec...

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 25d

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Vincent Powell @vincentpowell.bsky.social · 26d

As a film and media studies professor who also runs a prod co., my time fills quickly and I don’t get to pick up books as much as I’d like.

I FINALLY opened @tananarivedue.bsky.social’s #TheRefomatory…. Ya’ll I’ve never SWEATED from reading in my LIFE…….. I mean… perspiring.

A photo of the novel The Reformatory in a Raleigh tavern

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 26d

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 26d

That part lol

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I mean, I KNEW. But I didn't KNOW know.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 26d

I heard that name "Robinson" - then I saw the photo.

a close up of a man 's face with a serious look on his face

Alt: Denzel looking relieved

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 28d

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 28d

I was lucky enough to attend a screening and it was a wild ride! So fun and imaginative.

Congrats @bryanfuller.bsky.social!!!

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 28d

FYI: HANNIBAL’s Mads Mikkelsen and Bryan Fuller reunite for the fairytale horror-thriller DUST BUNNY - watch the first trailer within.

First DUST BUNNY Trailer Reunites Mads Mikkelsen And Bryan Fuller For Fairytale Horror-Thriller

HANNIBAL’s Mads Mikkelsen and Bryan Fuller reunite for the fairytale horror-thriller DUST BUNNY - watch the first trailer within.

dlvr.it

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 28d

Everytime someone tells me something like “I’m proud you stand up for what you believe in…”

I always think to myself —

My ancestors survived the genocide of the Spanish conquest, the slave trade, the invasion of the U.S., theft of their land, more.

They survived all that, I can survive words.

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Diversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social · 29d

My @copperdogbooks.bsky.social haul. I was so excited to not only snag the last copy of Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social but to also find a signed copy of one of my favorite @tananarivedue.bsky.social books!

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