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Hanna Raskin @hannaraskin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Still, an answer arrived on March 28, when @ajc.com posted a reel. As @afrosypaella.bsky.social writes: "Other than the fact that lemon pepper wings are served wet, and not with a dry rub as presented, the centering of white opinion and narrative framing is evidence of erasure." thefoodsection.com

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The Food Section

Home to James Beard Award-winning independent journalism covering food and drink across the American South, published by Hanna Raskin

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Hanna Raskin @hannaraskin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Time was that food editors were in constant touch with their readers, but @afrosypaella.bsky.social couldn't even get an interview with @ajc.com's new hire when she wanted to ask: "How [will you] ensure Black eaters feel seen and heard in coverage?" thefoodsection.com/stacked-cove...

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Stacked coverage - The Food Section

AJC’s new food editor gives TFS the runaround

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Never on here but I happened to see this on a scroll and I'd like to validate this with the fact that I went to Oregon last year and it was the most racist place I've been in a very long time lol. I was treated with a degree of disinterest that I'm still processing. Don't know if I'd go back tbh.

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a woman sitting on a couch with the words great gowns beautiful gowns

ALT: a woman sitting on a couch with the words great gowns beautiful gowns

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 06/07/2025

I’m so happy to see this article finally published! Thank you @afrosypaella.bsky.social for including me in this piece. It’s beautifully written and captures the the irony of being from Ohio where the history is rich and fraught. Thank you for being a witness ❤️

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I wrote this and put my soul into it bc it felt so deeply urgent. Thanks to @taralconley.com for speaking to me + adding her voice among many, many others as you can read. Will properly say more about this tmrw but am about to enjoy the rest of my holiday weekend & a glass of cava to celebrate! :)

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The first time we talked offline I remember telling you you sounded like a Southern woman. 😭💖

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Sense has chased you all your life but you’re faster. 😭

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I'm going on a cruise next week that retails for $14K so I guess that? I'm not paying for this by the way. Travel journalist perks. :)

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A lot of y'all are hellbent on being boring as fuck. Barely 30 and talking about your 7 p.m. bedtimes and not leaving the house after 1 p.m. I'll be 40 next year and am confused at this because I go to bed late and stay out late, too. Aging does not mean rotting at home.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I will hate him forever and he's a coward for simply hiding on Facebook rather than standing in his misogyny.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Sending all my love to you, Olivia. You should not have had to endure any of this at all and I'm so angry that you have.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

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Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery

Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Some news: this piece was selected as one of the 20 *best* pieces of food and travel writing for 2024! So honored and excited. My first anthology! 🥹

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that Magical/Realism by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal has been nominated for the 35th Annual Reading the West Book Awards in the Memoir/Biography category! Now it’s your turn to vote by May 31st. Winners announced June 12, 2025.

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WIRED @wired.com · 13/05/2025

We spent the Pornhub Awards with some of the site’s biggest stars to talk censorship, making money, and the popularity of trans porn—all while the site is blocked in more than a third of US states. www.wired.com/story/pornhu...

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Your Favorite Porn Stars Are Sick of Being Censored. But They’re Not Going Away

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

As you should be. Grief makes so much sense. Thinking of you.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I really hate to hear this omg! The piece I wrote for y’all on Black grief remains foundational for me and all these years later I still get emails from readers about it. The lack of support for indie publications time and time again is so unsettling.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

That’s how I make mine! Took about an hour for the roux to get to the color I wanted.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

No shade but he sounds like he needs to go to an endocrinologist and then follow that up with weekly therapy sessions. 🫤

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I’m delighted to share that I was selected as one of @ijnr.bsky.social’s Environmental Justice grantees to write about ecological grief (e.g. climate grief) of Black communities in the South for @prismreports.org. Honored to do this work & filled with gratitude for being supported. Let’s get it! ⚡️💥

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It’s harder than it used to be but not hopeless. I think writers—especially those who work in media—are being called to do something different + not rely on traditional structures in the same way we used to as they’re *all* crumbling now. It’ll take creativity, innovation & grit to carry us forth.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/05/2025

The NYT isn't up for this moment because if you look at their history they've always missed the moment. As "the publication of record" it shouldn't exist. The American public deserves better.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Even if it’s not a monetary contribution helping to plan or things like that are still a part of making it possible. The requirement thing obviously varies but really if it is a direct ask like that it means folk needing help in various forms to pull off events.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

And it’s not a badge of honor to talk about if you hosted you would just pay for everything. Trust me: those in your families and wider community who did that I guarantee have some resentment because that became the expectation and they got no help whatsoever.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Our generation has a loooot to learn about actually being *in* community with folks. Being a host does not necessarily mean you do it all yourself nor pay for it all yourself either. It is a communal effort. With our parents it was always a shared effort despite how it appeared!

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

😭😭😭😭 It was too much and seemed like too awkward of a convo to have lol.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

LMFAO speaking of I once had to unfollow someone because their husband’s penis was in my DMs. Seemed like a clear conflict of interest. 💀

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Seems like a lot of folk who identify as Type A have undiagnosed anxiety.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Chile…addiction runs on both sides of my family. I am GOOD. 😭

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, the university president announced www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The colonnaded Widener Library looks out over Tercentenary Theatre at the heart of Harvard’s campus.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Journalism has always been an enforcer & willing participant of white supremacy. Lynchings and other acts of racist hate + violence were promoted & published in newspapers remember. Let’s not forget this especially now.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Self-deprecating takes on writing and being a writer just never hit for me. It’s not a tone I like or appreciate. A lot of you are miserable & insecure and bring those things into your creative practice droning on and on about how much you hate writing. Deeply uninteresting.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We really *need* more Black writers to write biographies of our Black figures. Doing some preliminary research on Duke Ellington for this essay I’m working on. And I’m struggling because what is written about him is so racist. Revelatory in some respects but racist.

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If it’s any consolation, most folk who grocery shop to really really cook at home don’t get everything they need from one place lol. It’s normal to go to a combination of places including a good butcher for meat.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 07/04/2025

It’s the birthday of Billie Holiday, a survivor of abuse & an enemy of the state who was targeted by the FBI through her use of narcotics for bringing lynching to light, & died handcuffed to her hospital bed.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/04/2025

When we worry about the declining rates of literacy and a lack of reading skills, it's often about children. But how often are adults reading these days? And what are we reading? A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds out.

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Most Americans want to read more books. We just don't.

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/04/2025

An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—including child abuse material and de-aged celebrities. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.

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An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Music not good, dancing hasn’t been good in at least a decade, vocals have not further developed at all, etc.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Mused about Dr. King’s loneliness, isolation and depression as a result of the political trauma he faced on the 57th anniversary of his death. My latest essay for the black alone, a new creative project from me exploring Black loneliness. theblackalone.substack.com/p/the-lonely...

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The Lonely Revolutionary

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Solitary Mountaintop

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The fact that Keisha Lance Bottoms wants to run for governor of Georgia in 2026 is a joke. Georgia deserves elected officials that give a damn about us and not being opportunistic scammers. Black representational politics has never and will never save us.

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