Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23hOk y’all will love this picture of me as a little cutie pie toddler with ribbons in my hair enjoying my dad’s pancakes for breakfast my mom shared. 3882
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026This is a really cool picture my mom shared. It’s me as a kid with my great grandma James, we would visit her at her farmhouse in the Virginia county where my dad’s from every time we were in the county. She died as the oldest living person in the state of Virginia at 113 when I was 26. 41207
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026My mom shared this picture of me when we were out at my brother’s art talk. The enigmatic mad shaman incarnate as me on her birthday today! 251466
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026It’s very personal but I want to share my man’s loving birthday message to me. This is why I love him with all my heart & will never seek another for life. 14340
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026Here’s me today! I’m at peace today. Isn’t that great? In a suffering world that I have no delusions is in great crisis, as a suffering person in it, I have peace in my heart! I give thanks to my creator god, to all my spirits including the ancestors whose blood runs in me that I know joy. 3280
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026It’s time for me to refresh with my Cheerwine my parents have procured for my comfort in bulk for my stay with them. This is the single most delicious & delightful soft drink on earth only available in NC that y’all poor deprived souls don’t know nothing about. A pity! @backinmyhood.neocities.org 271
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026Here’s some local Black papers to the Triangle area of North Carolina my mom has & gave me to look through. We love the local Black press! Black newspapers have a long proud legacy of keeping community crucially informed. @solomonrmissouri.com 1408
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026Jumaa Mubarak my dear sweet soul sister Baraa. I’ve gone to North Carolina to see my parents for a few days. This is my view right now of the pond through the trees. I send all my love to you & my nephew Ibrahim. 173
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026Here’s my dinner plated. Eat y’all’s hearts out! 5594
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026That’s my dad frying his chicken, he said he went back to his original recipe with with his marinade. My mom’s putting her biscuits in the oven. We getting our grub on. 244189
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Since I’m an HBCU alumna of middle aged maturity, a cap repping my Alma mater Spelman college is going to be requisite for a day of travel. @mewefree.bsky.social 6443
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026I wanted to show y’all my auntie’s yard signs. Y’all know I enjoy giving y’all mundane slice of life reportage of what it’s like to be a mad person living in a working class Black DC neighborhood renting a basement apartment from her violently sanist aunt with her Moroccan partner she’s gaga over. 020
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026So I have this to share which is a call to anarchists to support Free Koulchi, with me being a Black anarchist in network & solidarity with anarchists worldwide especially Black one. @walaal.blacksky.app 096
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026So my neighborhood, our few blocks are a neighborhood called the Stronghold in DC, is holding its annual block party today. It’s organized every year, there’s good food & music all day & a health tent & vendors who are neighbors with businesses. Kinda overcast today but a slice of my urban life. 2180
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026My good friend Mitqal who was on here reaches out occasionally with needs, like when he survived the bombing of a wedding. He now asks for a warm tent & bedding & clothes for the coming winter. Here’s his son Firas delighted about supplies for his school from UNICEF. www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-... 143
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026Oh I meant to actually show this picture of my scholarly book on Haitian Vodou to the homies. @tichatnwa.bsky.social @pixiethinkss.bsky.social @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app 0215
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026This is really for grippy sock nation. Y’all the true soldiers who know about this. A tiny psych ward safety pen I took home. They won’t give us real pens because they say we’ll stab each other or ourselves. @moxiest.art @ladyartaud.bsky.social @metroplex.northsky.social @mewefree.bsky.social 2161
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026This was me setting out this morning for my psychiatrist’s appointment. I must appear as well as I can, though he also needs me to be honest & not fake it so he can actually treat any real problems. As my spiritual talisman I’m wearing a peice by @permanentalien.blacksky.app I keep on my altar. 7575
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026So y’all, I’m preparing to dine like royalty in a week because both my parents are expert home southern chefs & we always ate amazingly growing up, & they asked my ideas on the kinds of things I might want to eat for groceries, & I sent this. To whet y’all’s whistle who appreciate cuisine. 7130
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026My beads today are for my lord Elegua, who governs the crossroads & the thresholds between portals, dwelling in darkness as a benevolent but brutal trickster. I got these beads from my sib @vibratehighershop.bsky.social who also has dual orisha at their head. 5543
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026Novel research. Gotta get into this one with some underlines & marginalia. What y’all know bout this? Y’all don’t know nothing about our mad prophet abolitionist revolution who saw signs & visions & led his people to rise in revolt against white men who claimed to own them? @mewefree.bsky.social 1193
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026We’re going with this look today. A yellow head wrap for Oshun, in voodoo we sometimes cover our heads to protect & concentrate our energies as women. I’m wearing my ancestral talisman, a pendant of the Virgin Mary that belonged to my grandma who passed who bought this house in the crack era. 7454
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026In a reply on my newsletter Tiona @tionanmcclodden.bsky.social attempts to frame me as some sort of insane criminal victimizer, says reaching out after a while as a friend was harassment, she needs a restraining order so I won’t harm her in Philly as was never my intent. @prisonculture.bsky.social 011
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026Abood is the young brother of my dear friend Hammam who works hard as a volunteer nurse while he’s still homeless & must support his brother’s severe disabilities of epilepsy & autism as well as his asthmatic mother while they’re starving. Abood is an amazing artist who drew this portrait of me. 01114
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026I meant to share this with all y’all earlier. It’s very touching & sweet. My mom had this bouquet of flowers delivered & waiting for me when I came home from commitment in brutal psych facilities a couple days ago. @prisonculture.bsky.social @hystericalblkns.bsky.social @elmcitytree.blacksky.app 4471
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026I told y’all I was finna scandalize my mom as her mutual here with profanity? She’s an upper middle class AKA who rolls with high Black society in North Carolina. Y’all thought I was joking but she discussed it with my psychiatrist who gives no fucks & here’s what I said. @elmcitytree.blacksky.app 1102
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026Y’all, here’s a powerful prayer my cousin Karena prayed over me when I shared an image of my wrist with the medical bracelet from the psych ward in it from my uber home for the hospital on insta. I am covered by the love of many mighty prayer warriors in all I do 1182
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026Y’all here’s the medical bracelet from my stay in the psych institute I keep on my wrist at all times there. 5242
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026What it be like, what it do, what’s happening, what’s up? 4651
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026Our friend the farmer Mohamed Ahmed in Gaza asked me to reach out to his friends & tell you he needs support. The pictures are his gift to you. @neolithicsheep.bsky.social @mollietindle.bsky.social @courtneymilan.com @bangiigekek.bsky.social @anna-orridge.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/help... 1156
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026I aneed to address this to show y’all what’s truly happening with user gamera obscura’s severe antiblack harm she caused me when she really chose to agitate some of the hugest bigots here to harass me with racism for calling out antiblackness. Here a Zionist who’s blocked & stalks me from a burner. 3101
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026So I send her emails that she never responds to & I’ve sent volumes of them explaining clearly to strike terror in her about the fact that this really happening as a consequence of her actions that I am testify what she did to me to all. I want y’all to see this on madness. @tichatnwa.bsky.social 010
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026You guys remember I told you my parents drive a couple hours to the Outer Banks from Raleigh each summer to rent a house on the beach hanging with some of my aunts & uncles & their lifetime Black account friends? This is them from the pic they just sent. Aren’t they adorable? 6680
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026My sister Heba says: Urgent humanitarian appeal 🇵🇸 My family urgently needs food, clean water, medicine, and safe shelter after our home was bombed in Gaza. We need €250 to cover our basic needs. Any donation, can make a real difference. Please don't let us down 🙏🏻⬇️🍉🕊️🫂 gofund.me/c3bf6fb78 16198
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026So this is what I texted my mom to explain this, she’s one of my many important caretakers for my madness, because I think it’s a good explanation. She’s really on here as @jprouson.bsky.social @coolhand.bsky.social @moxiest.art @mewefree.bsky.social @metroplex.northsky.social 0191
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026Amir is just a cutie pie & sweetie pie. Loves his family with all his heart. A pure soul like him is surrounded by violent atrocities. He’s special since he never hardens, he stays gentle. They survived bombing near their tent & his mother has a bad eye condition. Help. chuffed.org/project/help... 01920
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026So since I’ve been getting my professionalism as a writer so legit setting up a manuscript consultancy & needing to flesh out & start writing the novel burning me in a while to go for a fellowship opportunity I wanna share my new artist’s statement on my CV. This is me as an artist. 1194
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026So here's my artistic statement. This is real literary dork stuff where I explain my artistic vision, & madness & being of the African diaspora are inextricable to my artistic vision. You will learn of the book I intend to write vaguely, keep it on the hush. No one can write it but me, you can't. 68423
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026Y’all I need to hip you to this bomb snack from the corner store. It’s Utz special edition Sizzlin Summer Burger flavor. DMV know Utz chips as of superior quality as a cheap snack. And I have to say, these chips lived up to their promise in every way. Delightful crunchy chips tasting like a burger. 131077
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026Y’all it’s official that Luigi Mangione is my president. I’m reposted by & followed by the official account for reposting all Luigi posts now, making this pretty legit. 2290
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026Here’s an awesome blurb on my first novel None but the Righteous from a critic at the LA Times who greatly respected my work that you’ll find on bookshop.org. To give you an enticing view of what this book holds for you. 56314
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026Let me show you why I don’t give a fuck who doesn’t support my work because I’m an unconventional person. Because a user called allthinky; No More Billionaires & one called No More Billionaires. Fuck ICE. Fuck AI just reposted me. So these are folks I attract who support me. They share my values. 1202
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026Last thing before bed. I promised Amir I’d get him help he desperately needs. He got in touch today having narrowly survived a massacre by Israel that killed 6. That’s his real life. He also fears for his mom’s eye condition & needs support for it. Boost & donate here! chuffed.org/project/help... 21215
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026This is an old family photo my Aunt Pookie shared with me with the family having good times. That’s my grandparents & dad & aunts & uncle clowning around here. 1140
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026LOLZ. Speaking of me being targeted? Some wimp here got in touch with the press for my novella & threatened to bad mouth the press for my insult of them. But I got free fucking speech under the first amendment to this day. @williamcson.bsky.social @tichatnwa.bsky.social @161bklyn.myatproto.social 1294
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026So I’m flying to Portland for my residency at my friend’s house for Black artists, & preparing. I’m super excited to hang with the homie @tichatnwa.bsky.social in real life. This is my good friend I’ve known decades & haven’t seen for years inviting me. I texted her this for context on my life now. 4202
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026We’re out here standing against Jeanine Pirro’s fascist antiblack attacks on our city of DC including criminalization of our Black youth just for being kids & this lady dressed like a frog was cute. @freedcproject.bsky.social 2285
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026Guys you know our friend Amir that @britculpsapp.bsky.social hurt by making fun of when he reached out? His mom & brother are sick. He reaches out to me in heartbreak saying his only phone broke & he can’t get on bluesky for connection. Can we replace his phone? chuffed.org/project/help... 02929
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026Thank you @chiitan.love! You see me standing up for & caring about trans people all the time here, you know the rights & dignity & freedom of trans people is genuinely important to me from my heart, & when you come through with likes you affirm that my support of trans folks is received. 1315