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Sonora Taylor

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Black Lives Matter. Award-winning author. Board member: Scares That Care . She/her. Latest release: All the Pieces Coming Together: Collected Works. Visit me at sonorawrites.com

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · Jul 10

Today's the day! ALL THE PIECES COMING TOGETHER: COLLECTED WORKS is now available wherever book are sold!

Manta Press: www.mantapress.com/product-page...

Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-the-pi...

Cover for ALL THE PIECES COMING TOGETHER: COLLECTED WORKS by Sonora Taylor. Features a blue skull with golden bleeding eyes.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 8h

Everything went wrong when they ditched Rizzo as Gonzo's bestie and swapped him for the usurper prawn

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 8h

There’s a reason my most popular book is 75% flash fiction.

April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 8h

Short story collections should be way more popular and marketed better for the short-attention present.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 15h

CAUTIONARY FABLES & FAIRYTALES: The Woman in the Woods And Other North American Stories and INDIGINERDS are both on sale for 30% off throughout today! Celebrate both classic and modern tales right from the land we stand on!

store.ironcircus.com/collections/...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 18h

Yes,it’s a lusty book but at its heart it’s about perseverance in the face of colonial oppression AND the lingering mindset.This is no slave and master romance. It’s I won’t be a slave or mastered by anything or anyone. We determine our worth even in the midst of erasure. Malinalli deserved to live

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 21h

The publishing and bookselling industry is astonishingly bad for almost everyone involved. This practise of bookstores being able to return unsold books is awful for writers and publishers.

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 22h

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 2d

Red Eye.

BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

What do you think is Wes Craven’s best film that isn’t part of the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or SCREAM franchises?

I feel like everyone will have a different answer and that’s really interesting to me.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 2d

New research shows bedbugs date back to the time of the dinosaurs. Even more amazing: apparently dinosaurs had beds.

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Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social · 2d

Keaton

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 2d

Pink and yellow are the best ones! What are they on about?

Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 2d

Raw bell peppers
Hobo With a Shotgun
Leader of the Pack

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 2d

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 3d

Megan Thee Stallion, bisexual Grammy-winning rapper was announced as this year's recipient of the Trevor Project's Mental Health Champion Award. The award "recognizes influential public figures who use their platform to advocate for mental health awareness and issues impacting LGBTQ+ young people."

Megan Thee Stallion 'honored' to be Trevor Project's Mental Health Champion

The Grammy-winning rapper will receive an award from the nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ youth. Past honorees include Dua Lipa, Dylan Mulvaney, and Janelle Monaé.

www.out.com

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

A memo asking for a memo is peak OFFICE SPACE.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

And still sounding fresh on their newest album! Love to see (and hear) it. Also found out their first album came out the year I was born. Guess we're both aging well. :)

Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

New Testament album is 🔥I may need to see them a 4th time when they go on tour to promote it.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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🎂 Sydney Screams 🎉 BIRTHDAY MONTH @sydneyscreams4u.bsky.social · 5d

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 4d

The controversial Riyadh Comedy Fest ended today, to be followed in December by the Saudi capital's music festival Soundstorm with Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, and more