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Jeané D. Ridges
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Poetic storyteller nourished by presence, soul-filling food, truthful stories, among other delights. Voodoonauts, S.E.E., & R.W.W. alum. SISTORIES LEI fellow. khōréō magazine copyeditor. To peruse my tales/verse & connect: jeanedridges.carrd.co.
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Trying an eligibility post for the first time. I'm grateful to myself for showing up this year to tend myself, the work, and community. Thankful for everyone I've met, deepened bonds with, and/or collabed to realize something wondrously meaningful.
With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂
What Jeané D. Ridges Has Published in 2025: ~ “the south pervades even the pluriverse” (https://stoneofmadnesspress.com/jeane-d-ridges ) ~ SISTORIES Issue V: Fluid By Nature — Contributing Editor as Luminary Editorial Incubator Fellow — Short Story “com·​mem·​o·​ra·​tion” & “Telling On Ourselves: Interviews with Black, Gender Unbound, (Dis)abled/Chronically Ill Speculative Storytellers of the South” ( https://www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709b-4706-84f6-6f7dbe8b7af0 ) ~ “Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda” (https://www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/writing-the-space-between-here-and-elsewhere-interviews-with-jennifer-hudak-and-shingai-njeri-kagunda/ ) ~ “Porch Pull Up Ep. 204” (https://theseventhwave.org/publication/issue-18/jeane-d-ridges/) ~ “Recipes for the Course of Living” (https://www.juliarios.com/the-february-2025-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/)
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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If you didn't get a chance to attend the symposium for SISTORIES's Fluid By Nature, the replay is now live and access can be purchased for $2: www.sistories.org/fluid-by-nat... (vid description has timestamps for happenings and an accompanying resource packet of materials/notes used)
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2025 Luminary Cohort, LEI Program Director & Founder of SISTORIES Literary (from l to r - Dr. Bre Byrd, Jeané D. Ridges, Chinyere Erondu, Nina ‘Alex’ Scott, Priya Dames, Mariah M. & Ashley Danielle Nickens. not pictured Jasmine Butler)
October 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Wooh dat full tired 😌. Yesterday was a dream realized from what happens when you move and claim your work with intention, with whole care.

If ya couldn't tune in, here's Issue V in all its glory--you can read online now and preorder a free-ninety-nine physical:
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
Roiling water, burning sky, lush swamp behind a veiled, gowned melanin-rich figure holding a lit candle with SISTORIES Litmag: An Interactive Feminist Literary Magazine and Fluid By Nature: Texture, Memory, & Ecology of The Black South overlaying.
August 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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(Fun Fact: I pictured posting this but didn't 😬.) Anyhow, SISTORIES is having a closing, celebratory hybrid symposium tomorrow, Aug 8, 11-6 for my LEI cohort and the issue we nurtured into being. Reg here (those who do will be first to receive hard copies of the issue)🤎🏞🧵: linktr.ee/fluidbynature
Lineup for LEI Fluid By Nature Symposium: 11:00am | We Begin & Ground w. Ashley Danielle, Harmony Phoenix & Mariah M. 11:20am | Archives and Altars for the Literary Souths Keynote by Dr. Randi Gill-Sadler 11:55am | Marrow as Practice: Building your Library Through the Elements with Chinyere 12:15pm | Jeané Tells on Themself: An interview, Readings, and Questions & Maybe Answers with Jeané D. Ridges) 1:10pm | Midday social hour, sonic curation by holdenxcess 2:00pm | Explorations in Opacity, a blackout poem workshop with Priya Dames 2:25pm | Black Mermaids, Time Traveling Cowries & Southern Portals with Nina Scott 3:20pm | ‘They kept telling me I looked like nina simone’ an interactive fishbowl with Brea Blossoms #5 Presentation 3:45pm | On Black Southern Literary Imaginations with Jasmine Butler (?) 4:35 | Issue V Cover reveal, Convo with Stewards of the luminary Editorial Incubator & Call to Action 5pm | Closing social hour; sonic curation by holdenxcess Link for deats: https://linktr.ee/fluidbynature
August 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Grab you a tall glass of water and come rest on the porch awhile: theseventhwave.org/publication/...
(also be sure to explore the neighborhood: theseventhwave.org/publication/..., and get ready for spotlights on contributors June 11-18: www.instagram.com/seventhwavem...)
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Graphic created by Seventh Wave and its Art Director Meg Sykes. Shows screenshot squares of "Porch Pull Up Ep. 204" by Jeané D. Ridges and "Revolution" and Other Poems by Jack Rose above the text "We can't wait for you to get to know these voices." then Issue 18: Radical Futurity and Seventh Wave.
June 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Seventh Wave promo graphic Issue 18: Radical Futurity: over a photo of Jeane' D. Ridges--abundant with Southern melanin, scarfed and masked up--a quote reading, "I'm a poetic storyteller who creates in the speculative expanse, which means some things are poetry, some things are prose, some things are a synthesis or conversation. To the substance of it, my work often orbits the question, once we've dismantled all these influences within and without of violence/ation, can we live with ourselves."
April 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Apr 6 2 pm EST/1 pm CST/11 am PST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Image of Jeané Ridges, melanin glowing and curls picked and satin-wrapped, beside the text: Fellowship of the Griots Presents Communion - Jeané Ridges Breathing Room Readings & Discussion April 6 2 pm EST, 1 pm CST To join: https://linktr.ee/fellowshipofthegriots
March 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I'll be reading at Fellowship of the Griots' Community Reading this Sunday, December 8. The event starts at 4 pm EST/3 pm CST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... . 🤗 to this community for not only the prompt that prompted 😆 these words but for the space, for everyone's incredible being.
Fellowship of the Griots Presents: A Community Reading Dec 8 4 pm EST, 3 pm CST (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrfuivpjgoGdL9-n-9hLBNc5caRlWljTrq) over a black and white photo of people out of frame and someone whose face is covered looking at a man speaking into a corded microphone.
December 5, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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Even though it's been several years since I read Han Kang's Human Acts, the end of this passage still surfaces clearly when I'm haunted by/overcome processing such violence. (content awareness: graphic imagery)
Page 216 Hang Kang's Human Acts (ISBN: 9781101906729) Page 215 Hang Kang's Human Acts (ISBN: 9781101906729)
December 4, 2023 at 11:04 PM
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Proud my work is among this thoughtful compilation of possibility. Thanks to @omgjulia.bsky.social & my fellow contributors--storytellers, storytelling artists--for imagining then nurturing what became this.
Shot showing jacket and book cover of Worlds of Possibility's anthology; under title, jacket shows someone with long blue hair in a robe with an ornate collar outstretching arms to colorful bubbles while book shows an outline of a cat wearing an astronaut's helmet riding a rocket bike, then "Edited by Julia Rios appears at the bottom. A shot of Jeané, fro in shadow, smiling and holding Worlds of Possibility's anthology opened to table of contents. Partial shot of first page of Jeané's story "Prep Luay" in Worlds of Possibility's anthology.
November 8, 2023 at 8:20 PM
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My reads stack continuing to be abundant with thought-provoking indie, highly melanated, &/or queer stories is something that will never not bring me joy and solace.
Shows a lineup of books--bottom to top--Jumata Emill's The Black Queen, Nicole Givens Kurtz's Death Violation Trilogy, the anthology Being Ace, & a stack of other books including rasha abdulhadi's Who is Owed Springtime, Baffling Year One, Premee Mohamed’s And What Can We Offer You Tonight, We're Here: The Best Queer Spec Fic 2020, Suzan Palumbo's collect. Skin Thief, & We're Here 2021. Shows a lineup of books: rasha abdulhadi's Who is Owed Springtime, Baffling Year One, Premee Mohamed’s And What Can We Offer You Tonight, We're Here: The Best Queer Spec Fic 2020, Suzan Palumbo's collect. Skin Thief, & We're Here 2021.
October 11, 2023 at 6:37 PM