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✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them)

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Lover of 🎧📖❤️ Audiobooks, Looking to study the intersections of Queerness⚧️, ✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 BLACK AND Brown communities, as well as Disability ♿️. Article recommendations on above subjects are welcome. Looking for academic Mentors. https://linktr.ee/neurospicyqueer

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✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · Nov 16

If you are;
Queer 💅🏽 ✨
Black ✊🏾 (or a Person of color and working on your anti-Blackness)👍🏾
Disabled ♿️
Polyamorous 👫🏾👭🏾👬🏾
A Trekki 🖖🏾
Anti-Government ⛔️
Witchy/Spiritual/ Hoodoos 🔮
DnD nerd 🧙🏾
Or Bookish 📖
Like and/or follow ✅
#follow, #LGBT2SQIA+, #Polyamory, #Disabled, #BlackEnby,

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✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 3h

If another adult in my immediate vicinities open mouth coughs or sneezes… I am going to fucking loose it!

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · 9h

LGBTQIA characters in romance! So many titles to choose from.
books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostlgbtoc...
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#romance #queer #books #gay #novels #queerbooks #mmromance #lgbtq #queerromance
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LGBTQIA+ characters in Romance, 70+ book titles to choose from
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✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 20h

Meds are working and in a better place financially.

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Quotes By Her @quotesbyher.bsky.social · 1d

20 years ago, we lost Rosa Parks, the "mother of the civil rights movement". We will never forget your legacy. Your moment of defiance became a lifetime of advocacy for civil rights. RIP beloved ancestor.
#rosaparks #civilrights #blackbooksky

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✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 1d

Fu k work can I stay home and read in please.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 6d

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 5d

Reading Rainbow episode 3 is live now on KidZuko on YouTube! 🌈🎉📚

Let's read "More Than Peach" by Bellen Woodard, who was just 9 years old when she wrote this inspiring story celebrating every beautiful shade of who we are ✨💖😊

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More Than Peach 🍑🎨 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

YouTube video by Kidzuko

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Author Kimolisa Mings @kimolisamings.bsky.social · 12d

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose.

I am a happy victim of books.

#BookTherapy #CaribbeanReaders #booksky #blackbooksky #blackskybooks #CaribbeanVibes #Romancelandia #CaribbeanSky #readersky

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✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 10d

I just had a PA at urgent care tell me that Covid

‘wasn’t so bad because no one even needs to quarantine anymore.’

I have never itched so hard to smack a bitch so bad… did I mention that the PA had no mask on and looked at me odd because I was wearing one

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Author DL White @booksbydlwhite.com · 14d

Our friend @jaleesareads.bsky.social was on the news! #BRBF #Blackbooksky #blacksky

www.11alive.com/article/feat...

How Atlanta is becoming a hub for Black romance novels

Romance readers are turning the page and Black Love is the main character

www.11alive.com

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Dominica A. Myers, MNPL (she/her) @dominicamyers.bsky.social · 21d

So, so true. 📚✌️❤️💯 #BookSky #BlackBookSky #AuthorSky

"I was going to clean house, but then I realized this book isn't going to read itself..."

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 20d

Black Speculative Fiction Month. Day 5 of me just snapping photos of Black speculative fiction books in my house. Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler #Blackbooksky #booksky #bookrecs

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Deb B @debbc.bsky.social · 18d

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books from your TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Octavia E. Butler - The Last Interview and Other Conversations

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky #diversebooksky #blackbooksky #OctaviaEButler

Illustration of author Octavia E Butler against a green background for cover of Octavia E. Butler - The Last Interview and Other Conversations.

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✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 10d

This is the type of book series I love. I can see myself in these characters.

#Erotica, #LGBTQIA, #Why-choose, #Polyamory, #Blackpeople

✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 10d

#Disability, ##crutches-and-spice, #Disabled

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✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 12d

Home coming season and I loving all the HBCU BANDS!!!!

✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 13d

No avatar, I am met with assistance, questions and even insight on issues. When I post with a dark skinned avatar, I’m met with hostility, questions of my sanity and questions on my ability to preform. 🤔. Interesting study.

I am going to research more before posting my full findings.

✨ Finley ✨ (They/Them) @enbyspoonie.bsky.social · 13d

So the social scientists in me doesn’t want to just call every thing ‘racist’ in digital spaces…

Nope, I have one space where I use a dark skinned avatar and one where I use no avatar and post the same discussions to see what will happen.

Low and behold, when I post on the account with

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Joi ❤️🔱🖤 @joialexandra.bsky.social · 14d

✨Black bookish brands ✨ #BlackBookSky

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Quira/Neptune Brownskin but spookier🎃🧡 @quirabb.blacksky.app · 14d

Anyway in more wholesome news, I met our library friend Mychal today. Telling you to UTILIZE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!!! (Also he signed my library card lol)