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Idris Grey
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Black. Queer. Intersectional Feminist. They/Them.

Writer. #SensitivityReader. Book Reviewer. Artist 🎨.

Rep'd by Claire Friedman.

No TERFs, no neocons, no racists, no problem.

http://idrisgrey.carrd.co/
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · Jan 21
Hiiii, I'm a Black nonbinary freelance writer, PW book reviewer, and sensitivity reader with almost a decade of experience. Please see my page for examples of my work. Feel free to contact me for quotes for SR work.

idrisgrey.carrd.co

Thank you, Dani, for this space.
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Author landing page for Black queer author Idris Grey (they/them).
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bookshopghost.bsky.social
I keep forgetting to post NEW ARRIVALS!

Email [email protected] or call 319-337-2996 to order. We ship! In-person shopping (masks required) 12-6 Mon-Sat.
A long-haired tortoiseshell cat sprawling at the top of a flight of stairs, front paws outstretched, wearing an expression that says "excuse me, I'm busy being beautiful" A group of large picture books, including one about images of Black people in the history of American art, two about the Civil Rights movement written for children ages 6-10, and also some books about the history of children's books (and randomly, also a biography of Bolivar) A group of various nonfiction books, including five volumes of Joseph Campbell's Historical Atlas of Mythology, several books on the history of science, some Civil War histories and one about world war two, a book about Flannery O'Connor, and more Fiction! Mystery novels, fantasy (including House on the Cerulean Sea), some classics like Narrow Road to the Interior by Basho, Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, and a book of William Blake's poetry; there's also an old novel with a very Margaret Armstrong cover design (note to self, check whether it is hers)
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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kiaspeaks.us
My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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paullicino.bsky.social
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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babeandoak.bsky.social
Fruit and botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey - 2nd part of the pattern collection for the rollout of their novel “Eat You Up”

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Swatch card for the botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies. Close up of the botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies. Botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies.
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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babeandoak.bsky.social
1st of three in the pattern collection I created for Author Idris Grey
- themed around gourmand botanics for the rollout of her novel “Eat You Up”

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Swatch card for the repeat pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Pattern is a dark warm navy blue with botanics on top organized in spot groups that interlace diagonally with each other. Botanics are of long stem stylized tulips, large symmetrical wild daisies and various green branches and leaves. Interlaced with the botanics are various fruits including cherries, a pear split in half, citrus wedges whole and cut strawberries. The fruit and botanics are in flat colour shades light muted robins egg and warm very light pale purple. Speckled throughout are some large dots in the same pale purple. Swatch card contains a large scale of the pattern framed with the title and the babe and oak logo on top of a square of the pattern in a smaller scale.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
Please see this beautiful art @babeandoak.bsky.social created for the public presentation of my grant project this year. Isn’t it all gorgeous?
babeandoak.bsky.social Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · Nov 12
Fruit and botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey - 2nd part of the pattern collection for the rollout of their novel “Eat You Up”

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Swatch card for the botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies. Close up of the botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies. Botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies.
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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maudi63.bsky.social
Oh my God, how awful. 😢 My thoughts are with Tatiana and her family. 🙏🏻 Here is an archive link to the article: archive.ph/2025.11.22-1...
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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popgoesthereader.bsky.social
☠️ 85 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Young Adult Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit ☠️
popgoesthereader.com/85-scary-and... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit
A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers organized by colour, beginning with blue, transitioning into red and pink, and finally ending with green. Books featured include Moonsick, Out of Air, Keep Your Friends Close, Deadstream, And The River Drags Her Down, Bad Creek, Hollow, These Bodies Ain't Broken, We Won't All Survive, Let's Split Up, Showstopper, The Devil's In The Dancers, Final Cut, The Protégée, Honeysuckle and Bone, The Devouring Light, Predatory Natures, They Bloom At Night, The Dead of Summer and You've Awoken Her.
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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selenaillyria.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER ALERT!
Make Me a Monster by @kalynnbayron.bsky.social

Meka is used to death. After all, it's the family business.

#YAHorrorRom #Romancelandia #BookSky

Buy:
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Make Me a Monster ebook by Kalynn Bayron - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Make Me a Monster" by Kalynn Bayron available from Rakuten Kobo. Featuring colored endpapers and a designed case! New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is back with a Frankens...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
September 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
There was some lady who I swear said that this dude was in bed with Project 2025. Everybody said she was fearmongering though. What was her name...? Not Cassandra but it’s close.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 2
Trump: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut ... I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity."
I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT
October 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
First they came for James Comey and I said, "Huh, ironic... But still very bad."
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE HAPPY HELLO SUNSHINE DAY!! ☀️☀️☀️
the cover of hello sunshine
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.
September 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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drandrealove.bsky.social
If you didn’t know, Mehmet Oz has a financial stake in the company iHerb which sells: folinic acid supplements (folinic acid = leucovorin)

The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.
September 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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ytsrik.bsky.social
Me on my way to the rapture.
a woman in a pink sweater and white pants is walking down a sidewalk .
Alt: A woman in a pink sweater and white pants is doing prancercise on a path outside.
media.tenor.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
Anyway, don't give your child an unproven autism "cure" sold by a snake oil salesman. Stop trying to fix your autistic children. They aren't broken.
September 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
This democratic republic is so flambéed
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 19
Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
September 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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gregolear.bsky.social Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · Sep 20
If people who know their history keep comparing you to Nazis, the fault is not with the people making the comparisons.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 19
Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
September 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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deecherrywriter.bsky.social
You can "honor" Kirk's memory by doing the thing he'd hate and donating to an organization that wants to help low-income trans adults receive gender affirming care:

www.transincomeproject.org/donate

(also read my interview with TIPs executive director in the original post)
September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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brandtandstein.com
Good morning, chums! Don’t forget this is on all day today as well!
brandtandstein.com Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · Sep 20
Good morning, chums! A reminder that as it’s the weekend, my DMs are open to all new comics creators (especially those of marginalised identity) who want advice on writing, art or the industry at large!
September 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
Where's that journalist who said we aren't living in a fascist country? I just want to talk!
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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courtneymilan.com
It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 28
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
How We Brought Respectful Debate Back to The Harvard Crimson’s Editorial Board To us, the solution is deceptively simple. Universities should create environments where students with different views must talk to one another routinely and establish ground rules that ensure they do so without distractions or prejudgment. Illiberalism on college campuses isn’t inevitable. At The Crimson, it took only a few months to radically improve.
August 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Much of the apparatus of fascism--surveillance, militarized cops, etc--uses how armed the American population is as an excuse why they need so much more.
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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authorwinifred.blacksky.app
Next week I get to onboard at my new gig AND have surgery. Rough, but the promise of flexible but steady income is THRILLING. Provided I make it through the end of August checkpoint AND can afford surgery and med costs. Current goal of at least $1395 of the remaining 18% of the campaign total.
August 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM