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✨Pretty, Witty, Girly, Worldly✨ @asdoseofreality.blacksky.app · 22/10/2025

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So is Nazism, racism and sexism phase, white people’s version of a Hotep phase

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

There’s a new post on my Substack! 🎉 This week, I’m thinking about writing in the context of warriorship—how craft is more than just sitting down to put words on a page 🖤 #WritingCommunity #substack open.substack.com/pub/bristoke...

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The Writer as Warrior

on heroes, craft, & the force

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Next year, I’m fully going back to physical media. CDs, DVDs, MP3 players, etc. Not just bc streaming platforms are increasingly capitulating to Trump, but bc I deserve to have some romantic whimsy in my life, dammit. I deserve to experience the magic and simplicity of 2005 all over again 😭

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Trying to get in the habit of sharing more of my poetry on Substack. You can read some of my latest pieces for free here: open.substack.com/pub/bristoke... #WritingCommunity #poetry #substack

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Written in a somewhat-manic haze after seeing Saul Williams perform a poetry set that sort of changed my life. You can read it (for free!) here: open.substack.com/pub/bristoke... #WritingCommunity #poetry #substack

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On Creativity & Destruction

musings from a Saul Williams show

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025

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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

There’s a new post live on my Substack today! You can read or listen to the full article (for free!) at: bristokes.substack.com/p/in-defense... #WritingCommunity

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In Defense of Late Bloomers

tw: mentions of csa, bullying, abuse, harrassment

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

There’s a new post on my Substack today! Initially taken from a diary entry on my relationships to God, desire and shame. Read or listen to the full article (for free!) here: bristokes.substack.com/p/divine-ara... #WritingCommunity

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Divine Arachnophobia

a brain dump on shame, desire & divinity.

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Anyone still using Twitter is either stronger than the Marines, or a raging, unrepentant masochist.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Last night I actually dreamt that I immigrated to a different country. It was peaceful. It was frightening in how new it was, but it felt right. I’ve never even entertained thoughts of leaving America before. What an incredibly bizarre feeling.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Trey Reed and Cory Zukatis are lynched in Mississippi and there’s hardly any noise about it. A neo-Nazi who was virulently anti-empathy and believed people should be sacrificed for the sake of the 2nd Amendment gets shot and the media eulogizes him like a saint. Right.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

New post up on my Substack 🥳 You can read the full piece (for free!) below: bristokes.substack.com/p/doomerism-... #WritingCommunity #Substack

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Lovely little feature of yours truly is out today in Her Grruv Magazine ☺️ #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I heard someone say that the reason why we’re experiencing all of this chaos is because a group of rich white men are afraid of dying, and…yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

We all need an ego death. Like let’s just take some ayahuasca and hit the reset button. Fr.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Today! 1:30pm pst! Come listen to me yap about words ✨ #WritingCommunity #poetry www.ashcoachingandconsulting.com/24authorsin1...

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It occurred to me the other day that, once all of this is said and done (hopefully), we will have been dealing with Trump, to varying degrees, for 13 years. Thirteen years. Is it ANY wonder that we’ve lost our minds.

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The people of Palestine are starving to death. A second flotilla carrying aid was just blocked from entering Gaza by Israel. Again—Palestinians are STARVING TO DEATH, and the world is simply watching it happen. I don’t even have words. I just cannot fathom that this is happening.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

One of my neighbors is blasting the new Tyler album at FULL volume, God I love being from LA 😭

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

You mean I’m NOT an inherently brilliant writer? And I actually have to WORK at my craft and STUDY the authors I want to emulate?? Sounds fake. #WritingCommunity

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The way having a traumatic childhood and an extremely early sense of survival skills has so aptly prepared me for the current cultural moment 😭 I used to hate the circumstances of my life, whole time I was in boot camp for what was to come, lmao.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Tyler albums be like: “I’m rich / I’m cool / fuck you / dance 👹👾🪩🌈🌼🎶” *5 minutes later* “I am unbearably lonely.”

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

HE’S DONE IT AGAIN. HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS (Tyler, the Creator) 😭

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I’m convinced that rigorously consuming music makes you a better writer. Poetry/prose isn’t just about language. It’s about how you arrange certain sounds to evoke specific feelings in your audience. Paying attention to music can help you get there. #WritingCommunity

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I'm looking for friends with benefits, and by that I mean friends who will pay for my healthcare.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

There will come a time in history where we’ll collectively understand that it was not at all controversial to be pro-Palestine. But living through the moment before that is wild.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I saw Flavor Flav in the mirror

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large mozz @bigcheese.club · 18/07/2025

the priorities now are dislodging fascists from power, holding them accountable, and then going about rebuilding, probably from scratch. but there is no world in which Dems sweep into power and bring back America as it was in December of 2024.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Also like … “underage women” is not even a thing. Those are called “children.”

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reverend mutha. @griotdamone.blacksky.app · 18/07/2025

“After the Carnival” in Rio de Janeiro, photograph by Alain Draeger, 1983.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Sister Dottie Bair @dottiebair.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I needed this reminder today. So I'm putting it back out there for the other weird ones who also need reminding.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Thinking about how MAGA is currently imploding on itself re: Epstein, and how we seem to be in an era where, largely, people are having to confront the consequences of their hubris in real-time—and it’s happening everywhere. What a truly insane time to be alive.

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Is it a coincidence that bisexuality arrived the same year I did? I don’t think so.

Just got the QUICKEST, most break neck turnaround time for a rejection letter in my life, omg. They said, “Are you being for real right now.” 😂 #WritingCommunity

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 17/07/2025

I need the tea on the friend who’s refusing to make eye contact with them bc I’ve been her a hundred times over lol

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It looks like we have some new friends, which means it’s time to reintroduce ourselves. 🥳 Hi! We’re Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores.

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Baldwin sun, Beyoncé moon, Morrison rising

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I rarely get FOMO these days, but I do experience RANBA (Relief at Not Being Asked) 😂

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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The people crave and deserve Adam Driver as Dracula.

Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I think there’s a real, largely undisclosed grief regarding the pain of realizing you’ve outgrown a friendship. And we don’t take friendship/community as seriously in this country as, say, romantic partnership. So we don’t really have anywhere to put it.