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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 7h

A life that has enough room for the fullness of who I am.

Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 7h

Did something I've done for years and I... ...don't know if I wanna do it anymore. Anyways, here's me looking cute and contemplating change.

Bee in a yellow sweater and black leather jacket. Her hair is up in a bun with curly tendrils flowing in her face

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 7h

Oh just wait til the abortion chat

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 7h

Some of the writing makes me roll my eyes but I'm enjoying this show so much lol

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 7h

It has been a WEEK, so I feel no ways about being in my bed, rubbing my feet together under the blankets before 10pm. I'll touch road and be wearing something small while hugged up with something tall another Friday. Tonight? I'm in the house like LL Cool J.

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 10h

This week has been full of moments where I've tried to juggle and balance everything to make everyone else happy, and guess what?! I failed 🫶🏾

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 10h

might gotta just. . .

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 12h

You look amazing!!!!!! Yes mas princess!

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 12h

Bad Sekki is one of my favourite content creators right now lol

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 13h

I open the app and y'all talmbout clapping Sarah Huckabee's cheeks. Aight, man.

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Coach Tru Wick @syndicatedghost.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

Fathers don’t need a specific class since parenting isn’t one size fits all. Social norms shouldn’t stop a man from doing what he needs to do to ensure his family is secure and taken care of. Men figuring it out is a masculinity trap that MEN perpetually instilled into today’s society. That’s US

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 21h

So, Law Roach was in Toronto a few weeks ago and shopped at this luxury shop called VSP Consignment. Guess who's dressing me for my TV hosting spot today? (VSP, not Law* lol) *yet

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 21h

Lol I'm sorry! I learned with my first after a couple of nasty blowouts lol

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 21h

Look at you. You made it to Friday! Even if the week was trash or you're stressed and overwhelmed or if you're just looking forward to a little rest this weekend, you made it. Proud of you!

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

I learned too late that the slits in the shoulders of baby onesies are there to allow you roll the onesie down when they do exactly this 😭

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

Meagan Good has been doing some nutty shit behind that husband of yours, but I'm enjoying her on Reasonable Doubt and she looks good af in this press run, so I'mma give mama her tens in this particular moment

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

A couple days late because I needed to strategize a bit more, but pitch sent 🤞🏾

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14/10/2026

Simba Kundizeza's statement on his Caine Prize-winning story "The Blue Fighter" is also worth reading—keep in mind, the evidence-free article slandering him was published in The Atlantic to a mass readership and his defense is a tweet to his eight hundred followers

Simba Kundizeza
@S_S_Kundizeza
Statement on The Atlantic article concerning “The Blue Fighter”

I would like to say at the outset that this statement is not in any way a proffer of an explanation or a defense against the allegations levelled against me in the article published by The Atlantic, because I don’t believe the article warrants either. I am however writing because of the level of public interest generated in its aftermath, and out of respect for the people who have supported and championed my writing, as well as my fellow shortlisted writers for the Caine Prize. I want to set the record straight.

For the avoidance of doubt, I wrote "The Blue Fighter." I did not use generative AI to write it. It is entirely my own work.

This story did not appear out of nowhere; it has a concrete, documented history. Its genesis was during my LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency in Ghana. While there‚ I read a poem by vangile gantsho titled “my father's hands․” I was inspired by this poem to write a story about my family's experiences in Zimbabwe‚ including my father leaving his accounting profession and the hardships my family faced as a result․ Other aspects of the story‚ including characters and the setting‚ are drawn from events in my own life․

There is also a clear chronology to the story's development. I sent the completed first draft of the story to vangile for feedback on May 15‚ 2025․ I then submitted the story to The Shallow Tales Review on May 27‚ 2025․ Fiction editor Nzube Nlebedim accepted the story on June 10‚ 2025‚ and it went through the standard editorial process. vangile then provided her feedback to me on June 25‚ 2025․ On the same day Nzube also provided editorial feedback to me․ In an email dated June 27‚ 2025‚ I sent the final draft and requested that the editor preserve the formatting of an epigraph in the story as originally submitted by vangile as a courtesy to her․ The story was published on June 30‚ 2025․

The Atlantic article seems to question the story's authorship by comparing its style to my other writing. As writers we develop recurring interests, but we don’t produce work from a single fixed template. My debut novel, “Freelance”, and the story titled "The Whistleblower" published in Transition Magazine in 2021 which is referenced by Ms. Vara, are thrillers dealing with political intrigue. "The Blue Fighter," however, is a deeply personal story about economic collapse and familial relationships. The voice shifts because the subject matter demands it. To suggest that a writer cannot write in different styles or genres, or improve his writing substantially after five or more years fundamentally misunderstands the craft of writing.

The motive for my supposedly using AI to generate the story is equally difficult to understand. I was under no obligation to write “The Blue Fighter”. I was not commissioned to produce it, nor was I paid a fee for its publication. The decision to submit the piece for consideration for the Caine Prize was made by the editor of The Shallow Tales Review months after its publication. I therefore didn’t write the story with any guarantee that it would be submitted, let alone win anything. The idea that I would have somehow written the story with the express intention of entering and winning the Caine Prize, despite the inherently competitive and uncertain nature of the prize, conjures up a motive that simply did not exist.

"The Blue Fighter" is my work, and I stand by it completely. I'm grateful to vangile for her inspiration, to The Shallow Tales Review for giving the story a home, and to the Caine Prize judges for recognizing the work on its merits. I’m also heartened by the numerous messages of solidarity from fellow writers and readers, and to Adrienne Ingrum and Regina Brooks at Serendipity Literary Agency for their support throughout.
I look forward to continuing to work with the Caine Prize team, and to celebrating this recognition with the people who helped bring this story into the world.

Most importantly, I will continue to write.

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

How do women learn to parent? Who trains us?

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

Pangram at the centre of another Black writer being accused of using AI? And the Caine Prize is for works that have already been published. So does this writer think they alone spotted something that NO ONE ELSE caught? The "screen works to see if they're human-made" part is particularly gross.

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

Tried on a cute Moschino skirt. It didn't go so well 😂

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

😂😂😂 I didn't know they were in the same place!

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

Diddy getting beat up by Dudus in jail was not on my bingo card

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

Lmaoooo I literally just saw!!! Never thought things would get here lol

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

Tipping into burnout. Going to do something radical and ask for help. Last time I did, I received none. Perhaps I was asking the wrong people, so I'll try again.

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

It's been a long time since I had to work with a passive-aggressive white woman, and guess what? I still hate it.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 13/10/2026

"...integrity requires that you are willing to do what’s right despite what it might cost you." Timothy Jai interviews @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social about The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman (@marinerbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/0DmkMt9

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