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Jasper
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Ayyyyy. Read (or listen to!) my award-winning book PANSY: A BLACK AMERICAN MEMOIR 📖
linkz: https://rb.gy/vt8bb
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New intro, Hiii!

I'm Jasper. I'm here to have fun and be cute and share my 'lil ~things~, like:

- My memoir, PANSY
- Super gay, super cute chapbook, A FLAMBOYANCE
- Digital zine, HERE TO COMPLAIN, for Black + brown folks and their microaggressive work stories...

You can follow my stuff here:
JASPER JOYNER | Instagram | Linktree
Author + poet from tha south.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Highly recommend watching this podcast ft. my friend and activist, Jessie, if you wanna know more about what’s happening in Memphis youtu.be/wW25ePEujMQ?...
They Don't Really Care About Us!
YouTube video by Headliners Memphis
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Do y'all know of any cool Black-owned calendar makers?
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Happy Halloween! This month's edition of Queerly Nerdy has me discussing the movie-musical Kiss of The Spider Woman, the tv show Glee, the video game Digimon Cyber Sleuth, and my friend @blkpansy.bsky.social audiobook memoir Pansy
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Here's a lil sample of the PANSY audiobook that I shared on my newsletter. It's the very emo/scene chapter lol 🖤✏️
#blackbooksky #booksky #transwriter
PANSY the audiobook is here!
You can now pre-order the audiobook version of my memoir
jasperjoyner.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It's #pubday for the audiobook version of my award-winning memoir, PANSY. It's releasing almost exactly one year to the date of the written version.

#publicationday #blackbooksky #booksky #transwriter
Pansy Audiobook on Libro.fm
"A captivating ode to the constant work of becoming—and understanding—oneself." PUBLISHERS WEEKLYPANSY is a non-linear, episodic story that combines poetry, cultural criticism, and essays. It follows ...
libro.fm
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“DoorDash Launches Emergency Food Response As SNAP Funding Cliff Threatens To Impact 40 Million Americans”

source: about.doordash.com/en-us/news/s...
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I was doing research for the book chapter I’m writing and was surprised to learn that, after they had a falling out, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. threatened to tell the press that Martin Luther King, Jr. was having an affair with MLK’s then-mentor Bayard Rustin.
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There's a whole poem (by Dudley Randall) dedicated to the Booker T. vs. W.E.B. DuBois clash.
A History Of Beef Between Black Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals
The Eric Dyson's takedown of Cornel West got us recalling some epic disagreements between black thinkers over the years; beefs like this have been going on for at least 150 years.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Here's a lil sample of the PANSY audiobook that I shared on my newsletter. It's the very emo/scene chapter lol 🖤✏️
#blackbooksky #booksky #transwriter
PANSY the audiobook is here!
You can now pre-order the audiobook version of my memoir
jasperjoyner.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
*stubbornly writes out the whole word even tho Google's already automated it for me*
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Our new, rebranded website is live. 🚀

🤓: and, look at that -- it's federated blackskyweb.xyz/.well-known/...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Y'all, my award-winning memoir PANSY is officially an audiobook, narrated by me.

If you wanna support, pre-order on Libro while it's on sale.

It's officially out Oct. 28, and the sale ends a week after.
#blackbooksky #booksky #transwriter #writing 🌈📚 🖤✏️
Pansy Audiobook on Libro.fm
"A captivating ode to the constant work of becoming—and understanding—oneself." PUBLISHERS WEEKLYPANSY is a non-linear, episodic story that combines poetry, cultural criticism, and essays. It follows ...
libro.fm
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.
October 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
*very* tempted to give myself a lil Prince-style silk press, for kicks.
October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I’m shyyyy 🫣
October 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I really be blasting house music at my desk like it's 1am at party. It's a Monday afternoon 😂
SOULFUL HOUSE Mix | Black House Radio
YouTube video by Black House Radio
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October 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I love to teach people who want to learn. That second part is very important lol.
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Y’all loooook ✨. Galaxy public art installation by @jwahrenee.bsky.social!
I’m shyyyy 🫣
October 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Evergreen
You don’t know them people
September 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hiii, it's meeee. I'll be developmental editing w/my girl Isobel (the cat) at @stray-cats-ink.bsky.social. Bring us your manuscripts. <3
MEET THE NEW EDITORS ~ Jasper “Jaz” Joyner (@blkpansy.bsky.social) is an award-winning author, poet, and editor who greatly enjoys helping authors find and hone their authentic voice. Check out more of their work and editing skills on our website at straycats.ink!
September 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM