Imani Perry
@imaniperry.bsky.social
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
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December 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Phenomenal list of 2025 nonfiction - Edgar Gomez, Caro de Robertis, Melissa Febos, Yiyun Li, Imani Perry, Andrea Long Chu and so many more greats! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Electric Lit’s Best Nonfiction of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Edgar Gomez, Maris Kreizman, and Zefyr Lisowski are among the year's most celebrated nonfiction
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November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Phenomenal list of 2025 nonfiction - Edgar Gomez, Caro de Robertis, Melissa Febos, Yiyun Li, Imani Perry, Andrea Long Chu and so many more greats! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
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This anvil of grief.
Without funerary activities, they say, you live in constant disbelief
your loved one is gone. You seek the Light, if only for a moment, to borrow
so you don’t follow Thomas to the bridge edge, seeking relief
fr—When Mama died, I lost my air
DéLana R. A. Dameron
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Without funerary activities, they say, you live in constant disbelief
your loved one is gone. You seek the Light, if only for a moment, to borrow
so you don’t follow Thomas to the bridge edge, seeking relief
fr—When Mama died, I lost my air
DéLana R. A. Dameron
bit.ly/440NBmP
BOMB Magazine | DéLana R.A. Dameron by Jessica Lynne
Everyday experiences of Southern Black life.
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June 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This anvil of grief.
Without funerary activities, they say, you live in constant disbelief
your loved one is gone. You seek the Light, if only for a moment, to borrow
so you don’t follow Thomas to the bridge edge, seeking relief
fr—When Mama died, I lost my air
DéLana R. A. Dameron
bit.ly/440NBmP
Without funerary activities, they say, you live in constant disbelief
your loved one is gone. You seek the Light, if only for a moment, to borrow
so you don’t follow Thomas to the bridge edge, seeking relief
fr—When Mama died, I lost my air
DéLana R. A. Dameron
bit.ly/440NBmP
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DéLana R. A. Dameron was a brilliant poet & fiction writer about my age that I was in community with who has suddenly passed which is earth shattering. This is her acclaimed novel. @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
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Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club): Fiction
Fiction
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November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
DéLana R. A. Dameron was a brilliant poet & fiction writer about my age that I was in community with who has suddenly passed which is earth shattering. This is her acclaimed novel. @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
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On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
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THE @imaniperry.bsky.social on When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social):
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
THE @imaniperry.bsky.social on When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social):
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
Horrifying reminders of why one’s politics should never be thought of in binary terms regardless of the system we have.
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Horrifying reminders of why one’s politics should never be thought of in binary terms regardless of the system we have.
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OMG! This is BIG news, @imaniperry.bsky.social!
Imani Perry follows Sara Birmingham to Random House in a two-book deal, Viking takes Isle McElroy’s third novel, and more.
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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@abcnews4.com Dissapointing AI generated and FALSE article published on your site: abcnews4.com/lowcountry-l...
Charleston Literary Festival: Black in Blues
In Black in Blues, cultural critic and MacArthur fellow Imani Perry joins forces with novelist and historian Dolen Perkins-Valdez to craft an extraordinary medi
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October 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
@abcnews4.com Dissapointing AI generated and FALSE article published on your site: abcnews4.com/lowcountry-l...
One of the things I keep thinking is that he is manipulating white Americans (bigotry is an easy tool of distraction) while robbing them too.
“Why is it the case that whenever they attack ‘wokeness,’ they attack our story?” @esglaude.bsky.social asks in response to Trump’s complaints that the Smithsonian Institution overemphasizes slavery. “We cannot become passive participants in this destruction,” warns @imaniperry.bsky.social.
‘An attack on democracy itself’: Trump wants museums to shut up about slavery
Princeton’s Eddie Glaude describes Donald Trump’s efforts to remove exhibits on slavery from Smithsonian museums as an “an all-out assault on what made my mom and dad and their grandparents possible.” In addition to this being an attack against the Black community, Harvard University professor Imani Perry says it’s also an attack on “deeply democratic knowledge” and “therefore an attack on democracy itself.”
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August 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
One of the things I keep thinking is that he is manipulating white Americans (bigotry is an easy tool of distraction) while robbing them too.
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Look at the gorgeous blue bench and cushions at Harriett's Bookshop! What a great place to get a copy of BLACK IN BLUES by @imaniperry.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I listen to audio recordings of my loved ones who have died. It feels like prayer to me. I cry but I also smile. They really were here, with me. What a blessing.
August 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I listen to audio recordings of my loved ones who have died. It feels like prayer to me. I cry but I also smile. They really were here, with me. What a blessing.
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“Why is it the case that whenever they attack ‘wokeness,’ they attack our story?” @esglaude.bsky.social asks in response to Trump’s complaints that the Smithsonian Institution overemphasizes slavery. “We cannot become passive participants in this destruction,” warns @imaniperry.bsky.social.
‘An attack on democracy itself’: Trump wants museums to shut up about slavery
Princeton’s Eddie Glaude describes Donald Trump’s efforts to remove exhibits on slavery from Smithsonian museums as an “an all-out assault on what made my mom and dad and their grandparents possible.” In addition to this being an attack against the Black community, Harvard University professor Imani Perry says it’s also an attack on “deeply democratic knowledge” and “therefore an attack on democracy itself.”
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August 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“Why is it the case that whenever they attack ‘wokeness,’ they attack our story?” @esglaude.bsky.social asks in response to Trump’s complaints that the Smithsonian Institution overemphasizes slavery. “We cannot become passive participants in this destruction,” warns @imaniperry.bsky.social.
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New from me — on Mavis Pusey, her survey show open now at ICA Philadelphia (coming next to the Hammer in LA and Studio Museum in NYC) — and the decade of curatorial sleuthing to locate her artworks and fill out her story.
GIFT LINK
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This Groundbreaking Artist Vanished. A Decade of Sleuthing Reveals Her Greatness.
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July 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New from me — on Mavis Pusey, her survey show open now at ICA Philadelphia (coming next to the Hammer in LA and Studio Museum in NYC) — and the decade of curatorial sleuthing to locate her artworks and fill out her story.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/a...
GIFT LINK
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He lost his wallet, which had his green card, and made an appointment in Philly to replace it. There he was handcuffed & taken away with no explanation. “His wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter.” He’s 82.
July 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
He lost his wallet, which had his green card, and made an appointment in Philly to replace it. There he was handcuffed & taken away with no explanation. “His wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter.” He’s 82.
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Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.
Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site
The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.
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July 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.
I was 9 years old when I met Thomas Sayers Ellis. I called him “little Malcolm” then because of his glasses, and knew the “Sayers” was due to him being nice with a football. He was a complicated man (to put it delicately) and a brilliant poet, drummer, and photographer. May his death be peace.
July 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I was 9 years old when I met Thomas Sayers Ellis. I called him “little Malcolm” then because of his glasses, and knew the “Sayers” was due to him being nice with a football. He was a complicated man (to put it delicately) and a brilliant poet, drummer, and photographer. May his death be peace.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track—and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.
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US Supreme Court OKs Trump’s Gutting of Education Department
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the U.S. Education Department back on track.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track—and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.
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I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.
Through captive eyes: The cruel journey to the New Orleans slave market veritenews.org/2025/07/14/d...
Solomon Northup: From freeman in NY to slave in New Orleans
An account of what it was like for some enslaved people to make the weeks-long journey by ship from the mid-Atlantic states to be sold in the New Orleans slave market of the 1840s.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Through captive eyes: The cruel journey to the New Orleans slave market veritenews.org/2025/07/14/d...
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Textbook stories on CRM focus on segregation. But a bigger issue was daily, random, brutal violence against all African Americans and white allies.
Students need to learn that history -- to see the 🧵& learn how to organize for change.
One example is from SNCC ⬇️
sncclegacyproject.org/legacy/
Students need to learn that history -- to see the 🧵& learn how to organize for change.
One example is from SNCC ⬇️
sncclegacyproject.org/legacy/
SNCC: The Importance of its Work, the Value of its Legacy
SNCC Staff singing a Freedom Song in SNCC’s National office (Atlanta,1963). They are wearing coats because there was no heat. L-R: Mike Sayer, MacArthur Cotton, James Forman, Rick Manning, Marion Barr...
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June 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Textbook stories on CRM focus on segregation. But a bigger issue was daily, random, brutal violence against all African Americans and white allies.
Students need to learn that history -- to see the 🧵& learn how to organize for change.
One example is from SNCC ⬇️
sncclegacyproject.org/legacy/
Students need to learn that history -- to see the 🧵& learn how to organize for change.
One example is from SNCC ⬇️
sncclegacyproject.org/legacy/