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Kerry Graham
@mskerrygraham.bsky.social
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I am loudly and proudly:
🦀 from Baltimore
💅 childfree
🧠 neurodivergent, apparently—I was diagnosed in April ‘25

✍️💫📑 my essays and vignettes for @thebaltimorebanner.com:
https://www.thebanner.com/author/kerry-graham/

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“I think Baltimore is one of the most wonderful places on Earth,” Yewande Kotun Davis says as we crowd around her mural, Lady Day Way’s latest. “And the perfect place to be an artist.”
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Baltimore woman successfully scoops dead rat into trash bag.
October 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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🫶 Having the moment captured by a friend

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A bird’s eye view of me writing, the sand and ocean before me.
October 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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📒 Creating dangerously, per Ms. Danticat’s instruction

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My journals and my feet in/on the sand.
October 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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📚 Hoping that, because she lives right beyond two Free Little Libraries, lots of other readers keep her company

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October 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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😍 Reading beside a new friend

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A selfie with a “statue” with braids, wearing a hat and shirt, holding a book.
October 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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✨ Serendipitously encountering this passage in THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE by @matthaig.bsky.social

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Titled “Mansions,” this page describes the empathy we experience when we read.
October 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Today is Let Freedom Read Day, which I was lucky enough to celebrate (at the beach!) by:

✍️ Wearing one of my favorite shirts. “Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.” ~Edwidge Danticat

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A selfie with the ocean in the background, wearing said shirt AND the cutest book earrings.
October 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I saw it yesterday! My friend and I deemed it an art exhibit.
March 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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It’s Snowing In Baltimore: February 11, 2025
February 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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In the spirit of documentation, this is yet another attempt to stop my next door neighbor’s ongoing harassment. I left him this note in his mail slot and am posting it here as additional evidence of what’s been going on.
A note telling my next door neighbor—again—to stop harassing me.
January 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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December 29, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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“Writer dear, that idea you’ve had is a good one. mskerrygraham.substack.com”
December 29, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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#childfree
A screenshot of an exchange on Threads. Someone posted questions asking how many kids people want and “if they’re done,” if they had the number they’d originally thought. I reposted it with the answer “Yeah, I’m done. In fact, I never started.”
December 27, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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24 to go!

(/end)
A screenshot of my Substack subscribers dashboard. I have 176 subscribers, including 13 paid.
December 11, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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One of my favorite poems to teach the lovelies was by the wonder that is Nikki Giovanni.
December 10, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

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CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
December 7, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

8/20

THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE, Julie Yip-Williams
December 5, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

7/20

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, Zora Neale Hurston
December 4, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

6/20

AN ORDINARY WONDER, Buki Papillon
December 3, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

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SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER, Bette Greene
November 28, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

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EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, Jonathan Safran Foer.
November 27, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

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OUR MISSING HEARTS, @pronounced-ing.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

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I HAD A BROTHER ONCE, Adam Mansbach
November 24, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookSky
#BookChallenge
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November 24, 2024 at 12:29 AM