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Rosa Sparks

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Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. 🏳️‍🌈 Lambda + Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 13d

Black Speculative Fiction Month. Day 1. The Fallen Fruit by Shawntelle Madison #Blackbooksky #booksky

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 22m

Interview with the vampire

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 25m

The way I had to shift from trying to get a signature to helping a woman protect her mobility aids from a mobbing crowd the year Kudi dropped Moon Man.

They were full on about to wreck a woman's walker just to be near that man.

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 36m

My incident happened on the train in public

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 36m

At the Nas panel, men were pushing past the women to give daps to rappers. I saw it a lot when I worked with athletes too.

S.E. Fleenor @sefleenor.bsky.social · 37m

I want to hear that talk!

And jfc for celebssss??? These guys need to get a grip.

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 39m

I didn't push him because I was trying to balance myself and regulate my pain😩. I let out a big "OUCH"

Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 40m

I'm so mad!!!

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 40m

One day, I want to talk about male groupies and fan boys who push women out the way to get access to their favorite celebs. New York Comic Con, concerts and sporting events is where this happens a lot.

S.E. Fleenor @sefleenor.bsky.social · 41m

Whaaaaaat i want to do something more extreme than push this a hole.

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 47m

Thank you. It's the risk I took but people are so rude!

Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 51m

I wish I would have pushed dude that shoved me. My ankle is hurting so much. I am angry because it has setback my healing process.

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 1h

Purity politics is just a dog whistle at this point since it’s a polite way to say “I don’t want to defend these people. Let them die.”

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 1h

Voting for Harris doesn't put you in the khive. Yall know exactly the insufferable lot I'm referring to.

Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 1h

Khive, neoliberals and centrists always crying over "purity politics". Meanwhile, the purity politics in question are human rights issues 😒🥴

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 1h

That we are, collectively, at the mercy of incredibly stupid and racist megalomaniacs with an Armageddon hard-on

Chief Skeet 👑🖤✊🏾🌱 @longlivethechief.bsky.social · 3h

What’s the one thing you cannot wrap your head around?

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ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social · 1h

Dems who don’t want to talk about AIPAC can’t ask me about a vote. 🙂

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ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social · 2h

Democrats have no answer for why they’ve taken so much money from AIPAC & they have no game plan on what to do with a collective of people moving away from that “relationship”.

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ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social · 2h

Gavin said Van Lathan was the first to ask him about AIPAC in years. And that’s the issue.

I appreciate Van telling Gavin straight up, “I will not vote for someone who takes money from AIPAC”

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Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 10h

The Voting Rights Act is done tomorrow they’ve already annihilated it. Tomorrow is the beginning of end and next June it’s over.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

A huge and consequential argument in the SCOTUS tomorrow. Is SCOTUS hell-bent in gutting the Voting Rights Act?

The Two Section Twos
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

The Two Section Twos

The Protection Against Racial Gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is Constitutional. Just Read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.

open.substack.com

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Adam Taylor @lordblade.bsky.social · 9h

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Heatherjoy Klein @hjklovesanimals.bsky.social · 4h

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Florida Congressman www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Florida Congressman

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 18h

‘Did I as a reporter solicit information? Of course. It's called journalism: finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.’

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 4h

I knew it would be only a matter of time before the family's group chat turned into the prayer warriors line.

Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 16h

How much is shipping

Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 16h

I'll take them lol

Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.bsky.social · 17h

Yes I love soups. And I need some comfort now. My ankle is killing me.