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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you eat a madeleine while wearing a pretty coral blush, it becomes a Maybelline.

Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you eat a madeleine whilst performing a soliloquy and lose your place, it becomes a hadeleine.

Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you eat a madeleine while participating in this meme, it becomes a fadeleine.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 38m

Indeed.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 40m

“Dark Laboratory” hops from Jamaica to Hong Kong, NY and London — all locales to which Goffe traces her roots — and a host of other spots in between (Dominica, Tahiti, Sardinia, Hawaii).

It centers Black and Indigenous history and ecology…

Free: archive.ph/2025.01.23-0...

Audiobook available.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 40m

“Dark Laboratory” hops from Jamaica to Hong Kong, NY and London — all locales to which Goffe traces her roots — and a host of other spots in between (Dominica, Tahiti, Sardinia, Hawaii).

It centers Black and Indigenous history and ecology…

Free: archive.ph/2025.01.23-0...

Audiobook available.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 45m

There's an audiobook too.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 52m

Highly recommend

"Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis"
By Tao Leigh Goffe

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Climate #Colonialism #Biology #Geography #History #Lit #BookSky

Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 7h

F Columbus www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301...

Dark Laboratory by Tao Leigh Goffe: 9780385549912 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress th...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 4d

In her review of "Community Policing in Nigeria", Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu sheds light on how Nigeria’s police has always served the ruling class, not the people. She says the book offers a much-needed model of community-policing for #Nigerians still reeling from #EndSARS.

We need community policing in Nigeria - ROAPE

In her review of Community Policing in Nigeria by Emmanuel Onyeozili, Biko Agozino, Augustine Agu, and Patrick Ibe, Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu sheds light on how Nigeria’s police, from its colonial…

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 2h

In 1980s Burkina Faso, #ThomasSankara dared to imagine a different Africa — one built on equality & freedom from imperialism.

Yet his #socialism project proved too weak to last as Jean-Claude Kongo and Leo Zeilig discuss in this piece:

Sankara’s elusive socialism - ROAPE

Jean-Claude Kongo and Leo Zeilig look at Thomas Sankara’s reforms in Burkina Faso in the 1980s. Sankara understood that Africa had to find its own path to development, and this would require…

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Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 1h

I’m excited to announce the first two webinars in the WAARC series “Dreaming Up A Disability-Inclusive Workplace”.

29 Oct: Intersecting Identities and Disabled Joy with Amelia Lander-Cavallo
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26 Nov: Complicated Pride: Disability, Neurodiversity and Ambivalence
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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 12h

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1h

That's a shame. Recently, I had to click something (an ad?) to get to the destination of a bitly-shortened link. It didn't go straight there.
Hope that person wasn't paying for it .

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Jojo @jojowiththeflow.bsky.social · 16h

This morning I was working on a four-page PDF file and Adobe asked me no less than three times (top bar, side bar, pop-up) if I wanted AI to help me on this "long" document.

Once upon a time I truly loved using Adobe applications but the brand seems intent on getting me to detest them

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AdreanaLangston @adreanalangston.bsky.social · 15d

It's not only exhausting, having to laugh at your own humiliation to just give good service in your profession will actually, eventually, degrade your own PHYSICAL health.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Oct 24

"The black female vampire.. assumes multiple, contradictory notions of 'self'; she is at once both & neither healer, nurturer, revolutionary, victim, victimizer, vigilante & vixen.. encourages one to view difference as essential to 'self' & not something to be marginalized." 🔥
- Dr. Kendra R. Parker

On left side, cover of SHE BITES BACK: BLACK FEMALE VAMPIRES IN
AFRICAN AMERICAN
WOMEN'S NOVELS,
1977-2011

by KENDRA R. PARKER

Right side table of contents

Introduction: The First Bite

1 "I'm not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking.":
The Black Female Vampire Figure in Octavia E. Butler's Mind of My Mind

2 Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories: Black Female Vampire as New American Monomyth

3 Intersectional Disempowerment and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Vindication of the Rights of Anita Hill in
Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling?

4 She's not turning. She's in flux": The Ability/Disability System in L.A. Banks's The Bitten

5 Rehabilitative Logic: Sex Work, Procreation, and Vampires in Pearl Cleage's Just Wanna Testify

Afterword: The Final Bite

Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Apr 20

I wish I could share this 100 times.

Wait. I can.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Apr 20

And here's a list of Black vampire novels by someone who wrote a whole book about Black women vampires in Black women's literature (there are many) and who is also author of "Understanding Octavia E. Butler", whose last book was vampire novel, Fledgling.

Get into it!

#BlackSky #Lit #Sinners

K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · Apr 20

Nope.

Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾‍♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾‍♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾‍♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿‍♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿‍♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿‍♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾‍♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate

Polygon @polygon.com · Apr 18

After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Apr 20

If anything, they should recommend Bill Gunn's vampire movie "Ganja & Hess" and Spike Lee's remake Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014).

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Apr 20

"Understanding Octavia E. Butler" Author Talk with Kendra R. Parker (Online)
May 14, 2025 @ 8pm ET (6pm PT) | Online 📌📚

In "Understanding Octavia E. Butler", Dr. Parker surveys Butler's life, career, and major works, highlighting her ongoing interest in Black peoples' pasts, presents, and futures…

Understanding Octavia E. Butler Author Talk with Kendra R. Parker (Online)

Join us for an author talk with Kendra R. Parker. In her new book, Understanding Octavia E. Butler, Kendra shares new insights into the work of the acclaimed science fiction author. Octavia E…

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · Apr 20

…also:
Black vampire short stories:
“The Ultimate Diet” by M. Jackson (in Dark Thirst edited by A.C. Allen); “Resident Evil” by Zane (in Dark Dreams edited by B. Massey); “Greedy Choke Puppy” by N. Hopkinson, @tananarivedue.bsky.social “A Stranger Knocks” (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-st...)

Cover of Dark Dreams edited by Brandon Massey. Includes writing by Tananarive Due, Stephen Barnes, Chesya Burker and More. For the vampire story, see “Resident Evil” by Zane

The cover of Slay: Stoies of the Vampire Noire edited by Nicole Givens Kurtz. Cover features a Black woman with an Afro and big hoop earrings holding a bloody machete that’s been stabbed into a vampire

Cover of Dark Thirst edited by Angela C. Allen. Black female vampire with straight hair and blood dripping on her mouth and chest.

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K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her) @howard2home.bsky.social · Apr 20

Nope.

Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾‍♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾‍♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾‍♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿‍♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿‍♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿‍♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾‍♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate

Polygon @polygon.com · Apr 18

After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel

The Game of Thrones author writes more than great fantasy stories

www.polygon.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 9h

🧛🏾‍♀️📚

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Oct 24

Just got used copy of Octavia E. Butler's vampire novel, Fledgling, TODAY. $1

"Shori appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near-fatal wounds, but she is a 53 year old vampire... the lost child of an ancient species of near-immortals who live in dark symbiosis with
humanity."

photo of Octavia E. Butler's novrl Fledgling shows a small Black child descending stairs in bare feet wearing a white garment that is on fire...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 9h

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 17d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10h

Yep.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Dec 17

Imagine a human man given the choice to be host to an alien child. On the one hand the "pregnancy" provides immunity, longetivity gains. On the other hand, he would be risking death.

Bloodchild is so full of ideas and provocations.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Dec 17

Someone was just saying that science fiction was all xyz, and Octavia Butler is one of many Black sci-fi writers whose storied don't fit that mold. "Bloodchild" pushes the animal-human, male-female, parasite-symbiont divides. It speaks of colonialism.. Aliens resembling insects use humans to breed.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10h

Yep. And the family unit is a throuple.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Oct 24

This is the only cover of Octavia E. Butler's "Dawn" that I recognize and acknowledge. That one doesn't even make sense in the story.
Lilith, the main character, is Black.

Cover of Octavia E Butler's Dawn with Blavk woman, Lilith, on the front

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20h

Babies are multilingual by default in Africa. 🥰

A study by research team led by Potsdam psycholinguists Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan and Paul O. Omane shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In Ghana, most babies hear two to six languages daily.
#BlackSky #LangSky

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