iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

Indige Tea 🦬🧡 : ✊🏾 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous Peoples day to all my relatives worldwide 🥰🧡

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ll be teaching my short story writing course at UofT’s School of Continuing Studies this Fall. If you want the chance to write your first (or latest) sci-fi or fantasy short story, go ahead and sign up. Classes start Oct. 7! 2learn.utoronto.ca/search/publi...

2learn.utoronto.ca

2710 The Great Escape: Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction

Fantasy and science fiction allow writers and readers to step outside familiar boundaries into imaginary worlds. In this workshop-style course, you'll learn the elements of both genres and get feedback from a community...

030

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mothering, you say? Noted! And yes, Tananarive Due is one of the most slept-on authors in the genre. Please check out more of her stuff.

110

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Honourable mentions (these feature moms, but moms aren’t the main/only protagonists): - Jackal by Erin E. Adams - Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies by Lindsay Wong - A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher - Platform Decay by Martha Wells

000

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

- Best Offer Wins by Marissa Kashino - Based on a True Story by Sarah Vaughn - Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza (read this instead of Yesteryear) - All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman

100

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have a new favourite genre - Sad Mom Lit. Recent titles include: - The Good House by Tananarive Due - The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee - Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich - Detective Auntie by Uzma Jalaludin

320

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

So, I joined Antoinette Sarpong, host of the Culture Alchemy podcast, at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social to explore why science fiction continues to resonate across generations—and what our love of the genre reveals about us. Watch the episode here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=foFs...

m.youtube.com

Why We Need Sci Fi More Than Ever Right Now

YouTube video by Culture Alchemy

0112

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“A relationship built on your subjugation cannot survive your liberation. It will fight you for its very survival. … And if that is the truth then so is this: if we are to survive, the system must die.” - Ijeoma Oluo open.substack.com/pub/ijeomaol...

open.substack.com

Do Not Give In To The Temptation of Respectability

It comes for us all.

020

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

AS THE EARTH DREAMS is nominated for an Ignyte Award!!! Thank you so much to the Ignyte Team for this honor!!

10374

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A thoughtful and thorough review of Climate Imagination, a collection that features my essay, “A Case for Reckless Climate Optimism” is in Strange Horizons. Read it here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

strangehorizons.com

Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

Climate Imagination is its own eclectic assortment of puzzle pieces.

031

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

She doesn’t have to be. Just wanted to share that her book is changing my life right now.

000

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I think the most hateful things I’ve ever heard about myself as a black woman came from men - black and white - who seemed to dislike me with a passion beyond reason. And “loathing” is honestly the best way to describe it.

090

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In her new book, @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social describes misogynior, a term coined by Moya Bailey, as “…the loathing that is uniquely experienced by Black women and girls on the basis of their intersectional identities as both Black and female.” That kind of broke me, tbh.

1133

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I’m reading @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social’s Black. Single. Mother. And it’s breaking my heart to see so many beliefs that I’ve never fully interrogated given voice.

161

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 24/03/2026

Me, to me: "Krystal, just because you read a name as ethnic, when they turn out to be in a melanin deficit, that does not mean they have committed fraud against you, despite how much it may feel like that to you, in your bones, along your spine, all the way down to the depths of your entire soul!" 🤡

242

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 24/03/2026

If you havent already, you can preorder my forthcoming novel THE FIST OF MEMORY from B&N at 25% off using PREORDER25. Assassins. Aliens. Ancestors. This is a book I've been working on for close to 15 years & is something special. Cant wait for yall to read it. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fist-o...

2148

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I am a proud recipient of an @ontarioarts.bsky.social grant and I couldn’t be happier! It’s an amazing feeling to live in a place where the arts are recognized as something deserving funding for its own sake. This is a view under threat in many places. Let’s continue to keep the arts alive!

033

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I was on The Rundown on TVO this evening talking about imagination and resistance. Check out a clip and go catch the rest of the show: www.instagram.com/reel/DUogtSR...

instagram.com

Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

022

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 28/12/2025

In order to really understand racism, it's necessary to understand the origins of racism. The trope that "racism is universal and natural" is pseudoscience PROPAGANDA. Blood quantum, the act of measuring racial ancestry in percentiles, is also propaganda. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory...

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

A Prehistory of Scientific Racism

The author of “Whiteness” traces the evolution of race as a social and political instrument, from its beginnings in ancient hierarchies through European colonial expansion and into contemporary times.

24521

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

A collection I edited, African Ghost Stories, has been named one of the 100 Notable African Books of 2024. Check out the rest of the amazing list here: brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...

brittlepaper.com

100 Notable African Books of 2024

Explore African Literature

086

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

“All … instances of systemic racism have their roots in the legacies of European colonial domination and the racist ideologies on which they were built. This era … saw atrocities … from the erasure of Indigenous populations to the transatlantic slave trade.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

aljazeera.com

Sixty years ago, the world tried to stop racial discrimination and failed

Decades after the passing of the UN convention on the elimination of discrimination, systemic racism is still rampant.

083

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

My Essay, “The Case for Reckless Climate Optimism” is now available in Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures, published by MIT Press and the Center for Science and the Imagination. Get your copy at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255366...

mitpress.mit.edu

Climate Imagination

When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are often catastrophic: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us, sending a sign...

150

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This is going to be great! Our understanding is that Brandon is going to share a secret family recipe! TUNE IN!

0146

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Thrilled to announce that I’m one of the four winners of the Morland Writing Scholarship for 2025. Thank you to the judges; I’m so deeply honoured! And congratulations to fellow winners: Monique Kwachou, Adeola Opeyemi, and Carlo Saio! milesmorlandfoundation.com/morland-writ...

milesmorlandfoundation.com

Morland Writing Scholarships Winners Announcement 2025 - The Miles Morland Foundation

Morland Writing Scholarships Winners Announcement 2025 We are pleased to announce that we have four brilliant new Morland Writing Scholars for 2025. We had over 800 entries this year, all from publish...

290

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

But imagine what would happen to a capitalist society if we were outraged at the condition of every unhoused person we came across. If the very fact of poverty in the face of wealth drove us apoplectic with rage. What would happen to white supremacy if white people saw black people as… people?

0233

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I can’t force white people to offer black people kindness. Even if it’s as small as seeing their pain and acknowledging it whether you can alleviate it or not. It is a form of empathic violence many of us are conditioned to perpetuate in order to allow the systems we live in to function.

1181

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

And the damage is hard to shake off. It lingers, like the deepest traumas do, because it’s such a fundamental repudiation of your humanity. The knowledge that the same white people who would swarm each other to help a lost dog would blithely let you die in the wilderness, alters you.

1131

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

And it is incalculably harmful. In every case where I’ve experienced this brutal form of erasure, I walk away seemingly whole only to explode in pain later. Like a decapitated body that doesn’t at first realize that it has lost its head until it’s taken a few steps.

1130

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This form of violence isn’t limited to black women, obviously. We extend it to the unhoused, to the mentally ill. But it’s particularly vicious because its passivity allows its perpetrators to maintain an illusion of moral wholeness - an idea of themselves as good - even when committing harm.

1140

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The list goes on. I haven’t always been able to intervene in every case I’ve witnessed - often I’m not able to get to the person in need. Instead, I’ve watched those who can help steadfastly refuse to do so. Refuse to even *see* the need.

1120

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I’ve seen a black mother with crying children fending for herself because no one will acknowledge that she needs help. Just this evening, a black woman on the bus fell over when the vehicle braked too hard and no one offered her a hand, or even inquired to see if she was ok.

1120

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I’ve seen this happen to others: an older black woman, clearly ill and fragile, forced to stand on a crowded bus in a predominantly white part of the city because no one would acknowledge her presence enough to offer her a seat.

1130

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

When I finally joined the group, sweaty and upset, there was no apology for the act. There wasn’t even an acknowledgment of what could have happened to me and my baby in the wilderness. My distress was made invisible and it was utterly devastating.

1130

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I’ve experienced this form of violence. On a group hike with my then 2yr old, I had to slow down because my child was upset. The group lead, and the other mostly white hikers, chose to forge ahead, leaving me and my child behind. But for the kindness of one other hiker, they would have stranded us.

1140

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I think this is more than a microaggression, but rather a form of violence that is designed to reduce the person in distress to something less than human. Because it tells them that they matter so little that even the basest level of empathy that can be given to an animal is not available to them.

1142

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

So there’s a particularly pernicious form of racist microaggression that recently came to my attention. One where white people will see a black person - particularly a black woman - in distress in public and refuse to help them or even acknowledge them.

14112

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

316101633885

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Tonight, from 6PM - 7PM ET, I’ll be part of Word on the Street’s annual "Creating Time & Space to Write" workshop, an online panel where I’ll be joining fellow writers to talk about how we get our work done. Registration is here: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-wo...

130

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This anthology looks amazing: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, ed @teresempierre.bsky.social, the author of Myth (both @houseofanansi.bsky.social‬). Available for pre-order, out in October! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books‬‬‬‬‬ ... a 🧵 1/12

Book cover for As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories (House of Anansi), with a bee in neon blue, pink and purple against a black background. Edited by esteemed poet Terese Mason Pierre, this bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections, experiments, and hopes of Black writers in Canada. Featuring stories by the editor, Trynne Delaney, francesca ekwuyasi, Whitney French, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Chimedum Ohaegbu, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Chinelo Onwualu, Lue Palmer, and Zalika Reid-Benta. Ten breathtaking stories explore natural and urban landscapes, living and dead relationships, economic catastrophe, love, and desire--all while celebrating the persistent and ever-changing self, and envisioning beautiful Black futures. https://houseofanansi.com/products/as-the-earth-dreams

Book cover for Myth by Terese Mason Pierre (House of Anansi), with a photo of palm trees in a setting with water and mountains in the distance, manipulated to make the colours more stark, and with a series of concentric circles in the sky as if the sun is getting bigger. The much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre weaves between worlds (‘real’ and ‘imaginary’) unearthing the unsettling: our jaded and joyful relationships to land, ancestry, trauma, self, and future. In three movements and two interludes, the poems in Myth move symphonically from tropical islands to barren cities, from lucid dreams to the mysteries of reality, from the sea to the cosmos. A dynamic mix of speculative poetry and ecstatic lyricism, the otherworldly and the sublime, Pierre’s poems never stray too long or too far from the spell of unspoiled nature: “The palm trees nod / at the ocean / the ocean does / what it always does / trusts the moon completely.” https://houseofanansi.com/products/myth

166

Reposted by Chinelo Onwualu

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/07/2025

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

eff.org

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

12541002268

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

From June 23rd to August 7th the University of Guelph’s Zavitz Art Gallery is hosting Manufactured Ecosystems, an immersive exhibition that explores speculative futures where art and technology converge to address the climate crisis. Do check it out! www.manufacturedecosystems.com/press-release

manufacturedecosystems.com

Exhibit Info — Manufactured Ecosystems

011

Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

So excited to announce that my latest short story will be featured in the Black Canadian spec fic anthology, 'As The Earth Dreams', edited by Terese Pierre. Published by House of Anansi Press, it’s coming out in October. The lineup is stacked, y’all! I can’t wait! houseofanansi.com/collections/...

houseofanansi.com

As the Earth Dreams

A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy. This bold and innovative anthology of speculative short ficti...

271