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Atena O. Danner

@atenaoyadi.bsky.social
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Poet and cultural worker for justice and Black liberation/collective liberation Atena’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=17480755&utm… Blog: blog.atenadannercreative.com Linktree: linktr.ee/atenadanner

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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is too funny. You know possums are know for playing dead. With a mirror, they can even scare themselves into it.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social
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Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Thanks for sharing, Kelly! We can all try to take care of each other.
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Tonight (Wednesday, 7/8) at sunset, vigil and altar-build for Nolan Wells and all that we carry. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” —James Baldwin
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My latest published in @truthout.org and the @theappeal.org. Delaney Hall detainees: “We deserve to be free and to complete the process at home with our families. We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.”
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Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Creative Reflections: Reading, Writing, Listening & Talking 6/12/26
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Creative Reflections: Reading, Writing, Listening & Talking 6/12/26
Hey loves - it's been a minute! I hope you've been doing okay. Today was a 12 hours on Zoom kind of day. But the day got progressively more fulfilling, which is pretty awesome. This format gathers…
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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026
hyperallergic.com/danielle-mck...
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Danielle Mckinney's Portraits of Black Women at Rest
Each figure in her paintings luxuriates in the dreaminess of space belonging to her and her alone.
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It is also MATERNAL Mental Health Awareness Month. UUANI’s Exec Director Natasha Walker has been touring UU congregations across IL and on Mothers Day delivered this poignant reflection about ‘Mothering Madness’ and the crisis of unsupported parenting in the US.
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For Mental Health Awareness Month: Mothering Madness — UUANI
“We were told we could have it all. My prototype was Claire Huxtable—elegant, successful, and effortlessly managing a household of rambunctious, brilliant, and well behaved children. But the reality…
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"A vote for me is a vote to abolish ICE." "A vote for me is a vote to close the camps where tens of thousands of people the regime abducted are captive without trial." "A vote for me is a vote to lower your healthcare premiums." "A vote for me is a vote to stop killing school kids abroad."
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
More of this, please. Thinking also remains sine qua non of good {sociologizing, coding, software engineering, ...}
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My friend Sama'a is trying to find food and milk for her young children, and every day it is both scarcer and more expensive. Please give what you can to help. chuffed.org/project/1575...
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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11/05/2026
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "AI art can fuck off"
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 02/05/2026
This year, we‘re celebrating 25 years of publishing books for changing the world! 🌻 We’re so grateful to @ollycostello.bsky.social for this beautiful new illustration. Another world is possible if we fight for it.
An illustration featuring an open book, flowers, bees, and a butterfly. The text reads "Books for Changing the World; Haymarket Books; Celebrating 25 years"
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
All that caterwauling over students peacefully setting up tents on lawns meanwhile it's the admin actually committing the violence.
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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
@gulabjammin.bsky.social 💕
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
May Day Strong in Chicago!
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
“Lucy Parsons will have her revenge on Chicago” My 2nd favorite sign!
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Stranded delivery robot along the May Day march in Chicago.
A photo of one of those ridiculous delivery robots sitting on the sidewalk in front of Chicago's May Day march.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/04/2026
“That’s because we fucking joined this union. This never would have happened had we not banded together for a whole year.” @thomasbirm.bsky.social reports how tenants won a new contract from their out-of-state landlord. inthesetimes.com/article/kent...
A promotional graphic for an In These Times article shows a group of tenant organizers in matching red shirts gathered at a rally outside a brick building. One person speaks at a microphone while others hold signs reading “Tenant Power,” “No $$$ for Slum Lords!,” “Kids Deserve Safe Housing,” and “Venomous Brown Recluse Spiders Infest Our Homes!” Over the lower half of the image, large white text reads: “Rural Kentucky Tenants Win Unprecedented Lease Agreement After Yearlong Campaign.” Smaller text says the story is about tenants in four federally backed buildings in the South overcoming retaliation and winning a new contract from their out-of-state landlord, by Thomas Birmingham.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/04/2026
In Gaza, the effects of war do not end when the bombing stops. A silent health crisis is emerging among pregnant women and their children. Since the start of Israel’s assault, maternity wards have reported alarming increases in miscarriages, premature births, and rare congenital disabilities.
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War Pollutants May Be Poisoning a Generation of Mothers and Their Babies in Gaza
The impact of war goes beyond immediate destruction, quietly shaping the health of future generations.
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Senators will vote on two historic resolutions to block US bombs and bulldozers to Israel. Use this tool to call your Senators and urge them to block the $660 million weapons shipment. Make a call here: www.imeupolicyproject.org/stop-deliver...
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TAKE ACTION: Call Your Senators to Stop Arming Israel — IMEU Policy Project
Senators will vote on two historic resolutions to block US bombs and bulldozers to Israel. Call them now and urge them to vote YES.
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I feel like now would be a GREAT time to collectively admit that talented men’s careers are not worth more than the lives/souls of the women who actually make their work possible. “But his work…!” Is a self-fulfilling prophesy that we ourselves breathe life into. We can change that story.
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I wonder - is @united.com making their Asheville agents run between check-in and the gates so they can work both desks. I hope not, but I’ve never had to wait for 30 mins because no one was there. Is United Airlines struggling? Not mad at the agents; this is SYSTEMIC. Everywhere is understaffed.
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Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” Your quarterly reminder that James Baldwin did not say this…
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James Baldwin Said 'We Can Disagree and Still Love Each Other'?
James Baldwin has a few talented intellectual heirs.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/03/2026
Libraries are spaces where people can gather without spending money, learn together, and build the kind of shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to destroy.
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 03/01/2026
If able, please consider supporting Rochelle, a beloved local Black nonbinary disabled friend, artist, and dedicated community member, who is desperately trying to move forward after the end of an abusive relationship, with limited family support, health challenges, debt, etc! 🙏🏾 gofund.me/71a5933e2
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Donate to Invisibly Disabled Black Non-Binary Artist Needing Support, organized by Rochelle Richardson
I am an Invisibly Disabled, Neurodivergent, Non-Binary Black … Rochelle Richardson needs your support for Invisibly Disabled Black Non-Binary Artist Needing Support
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Props to @rosasparks.bsky.social for this nuanced, gracious treatment of Sinners & the Black Midwest in @reactorsff.bsky.social Freedom to move throughout the cosmos reactormag.com/beyond-afrof...
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Beyond Afrofuturism: Sinners, the Great Migration, and Rust Belt Gothik - Reactor
"Sinners" is a particular kind of story about migration, spirituality, and Black speculative survival skills
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
. Immigrants kidnapped and hit with decades worth of legal fees ( the majority of immigrants deported being Indigenous and Black immigrants over represented) And it being mostly underreported outside of local The function of a system is what it does
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.
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Boston Bugsy @bostonbugsy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"Activists" do you mean concerned neighbors? "Violent clashes" do you mean attacks by police, who came armed and ready to commit violence against unarmed citizens?
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Cal @skyquake.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Hundreds of neighbors putting their bodies in the way of state violence, you mean.
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"Activists who tried to impede" or just people trying to help one another and their community from violent people with "badges" and facemasks that like to kill people... Fixed it
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Nothing @nothingofvalue.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“Federal and local law enforcement use state sanctioned violence against public trying to protect their community.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/03/2026
They’re concerned about their career consequences for coming out against the rampant misogyny aimed towards them now, after directly working to have thousands of women pushed from the workforce. Those women already affected, their targets, are never in the frame of these discussions.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
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In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic
While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 02/03/2026
no nazi shit No Nazi Shit NO NAZI SHIT NO FUCKING NAZI SHIT
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Something lovely in a rough day. baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...
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Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city
CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night. Work...
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Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thank the ancestors for babies and pets!
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/02/2026
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Thursday at 7 PM ET events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel

Thursday, February 12 at 7pm ET
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There are reports of at least two measles cases at the DIlley Detention Center, an ICE facility that holds children and parents. This thread is to provide some important context. First, how many people are in there right now…
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Two years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.) Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
an upright orange SIM card and green and light green kufiya pattern inside where the SIM chip is, a teal background, and the green Knock Out typography in all caps reading CRIPS FOR ESIMS FOR GAZA
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
chuffed.org/project/1491...
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RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 21/12/2025
"The best way to do collaborative...collective care is to ask, How are we backing each other up? How are we encouraging each other to take the breaks we need...? How do we make sure the goals of our work are covered so that nobody has to burn themselves out because they’re politically committed?" 🫂
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