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Author of Speculative Blackness, editor of The Black Fantastic andrecarringtonphd.com insta: audio.futurism

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 8d

Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination will be available for pre-order in December.

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Audiofuturism - andré carrington

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before ma...

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 4h

My epidendrum is flowering again. Really glad it's kept going for a few years now

Small flowers on the narrow stem of a plant

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 5h

I just had the very odd experience of reading my 2015 book, The Hunt for Vulcan, and wondering how the hell I came to write it

It reads well, at least to me, & it’s a great story, but it’s so far from what I’ve been thinking about for the last 10 yrs I don’t remember how I arrived at those thoughts

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 4h

...if you watch four, you'll want to see the whole series

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

Pop-up roller skating rink near the Chelsea section of the High Line celebrating LGBTQ+ activists like Marsha P. Johnson

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 5h

Not at all

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Canadian Squirrel @auntywilly.blacksky.app · 8h

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 8h

Quote this post with a picture of a fine ass Gay Man

(Kele call me!)

Dark-skinned man with shoulder-length locs wearing a painter's cap-style hat with his hand up to his chin

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 8h

Sheila Atim is one of them ones. Can't wait to see her!

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 14h

These jabronis don't *understand* men, they *cater to* men.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 14h

The manosphere lies to men to make them feel good about themselves, and they/we love that. You don't have to understand something to lie about it - in fact, understanding can get in the way. But if you lie in ways that make people want to listen to you, they'll mistake that for understanding.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 14h

Saw a thing from the Atlantic titled "Why is Joe Rogan so popular?" The lede is "He understands men better than most," and that is not it AT ALL. People who struggle against patriarchy & cissexism understand cis men better than most, because they *have* to.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 16h

How the media are gaslighting trans people

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 14h

The compact is not a real thing. It's like a citric acid coating they're putting on the boot for people who already want to lick it but enjoy sour patch kids

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 14h

It's #NationalComingOutDay so I want to remind everybody: I'm gay AF, I been gay, all day (queer, occasionally)

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Or just, like, read a book

(NGL "slapped to sleep" made me cackle! lol)

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 1d

survivors of traumas including child abuse, incarceration & state violence may be having an especially difficult time with the words, actions & demeanor of those in power at this moment. i know i am, though i do not say much about it (for a great many reasons).

there are so very many of us. ✊

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for acknowledging that it's about social cost.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

This mf is so dizzy he can't think of the evil of chattel slavery except by invoking fantasy monsters. Real historical political evil is much worse than anything in a novel or a game.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

They booed her so hard the camera fogged up!

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Have you considered that his heart was removed from a younger, healthier Republican follower?

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Helluva Bottom Carter @nicju.blacksky.app · 1d

Get out the brooms.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Good on you Vegas 🏆♠️ #WNBA and good on Alyssa Thomas with the triple double

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Your cousin tolerates anchovies as an ingredient in Caesar dressing because it's undeniably essential.
(Trader Joe's makes a really good vegan Caesar, though)

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 1d

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MIT Rejects White House Deal To Unlock Funds In Exchange For Adopting Trump’s Political Agenda

In a letter to Trump administration officials, MIT President Sally Kornbluth said MIT disagrees with provisions of the proposal.

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