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Denzel Xavier Scott

@denzelscott.bsky.social
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Writer, Poet, Author. Monster (golden-hearted, love-hungry, moon-blessed). www.amazon.com/Delphinium-Gospel-De…

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if that be the fruit of cho Beneath Ceaseless Skies Read on Gavagai
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
can enter and no one can leave. Though my homeland is beautiful, peaceful, and filled with abundance, that is not enough when you have no right to choose. No one who is honest with themselves, in their deepest, oldest place, could be satisfied with such. That is why I would rather suffer, even die,
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
and live the life I think I deserve? Beneath Ceaseless Skies - BCS 365: The Eldest Bird of Paradise by Denzel Xavier Scott We have delicious cuisine. We are lovers of life. We are lovers of love. We are so many things, but above all else, we are lovers of freedom that live in a cage that no one
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
forward or feel like I'm progressing in my craft. The things I've achieved already aren't nothing, but they're not enough. Writing is the only thing in my life right now that feels like a miracle that might save my life. It's the only wild card in my deck. How do I use it to be what I want to be
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
justify this to myself in the kind of work until you die culture that is America? I love writing. I believe I sincerely love it, since I've been getting published since I was 17, and I'm still trying to become a writer in my mid-30s while pursuing a practical career. I don't know how to move
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
weeks ago. Here's that link: beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/b… Will I only ever feel like I have a literary career to nurture if I get a novel published? Or several novels published? When will I become a writer who has the right to write? How do I
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How can I become a professional writer? My debut poetry collection, Delphinium Gospel, was published by a small press two years ago. A short story of mine was republished in Neon Hemlock's queer anthology series, We're Here 2024. I got a novelette published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies a couple of
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In BCS #465: "The Eldest Bird of Paradise" @denzelscott.bsky.social "We have delicious cuisine. We are lovers of life. We are lovers of love. We are so many things, but above all else we are lovers of freedom that live in a cage no one can enter or leave." beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Eldest Bird of Paradise by Denzel Xavier Scott
We have delicious cuisine. We are lovers of life. We are lovers of love. We are so many things, but above all else, we are lovers of freedom that live in a cage that no one can enter and no one can le...
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That's deliciously shady.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)
Jamelle Bouie writes: yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The House voted to condemn “socialism” earlier this week. Listen, I’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I grew up during McCarthyism and the “red Scare” of the 1950s. I’ve seen all of this fear-mongering before. Here’s what’s really going on.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I adore feedback. Good, bad, ugly. I live for the possibilities of transformation and growth.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
It’s impossible to calculate how much of what I’ve been able to accomplish is because of women like Gloria Steinem. Rest in power. www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...
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Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92
At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is why you can't have healthcare. www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigratio…
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ICE plans to buy robot ‘dogs’ for some immigration enforcement operations
The doglike robots are equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect chemicals and would be used in situations that
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
Amazing number of people lately who are willing to stand up and say I’m the villain, you should hate me
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I thought this was happening much later. I hope you enjoy this piece. It was crafted with all my love, dedication, and the full depth of my imaginative and intellectual powers.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from  August 24 to September 7!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
To be loved is to be changed.
Dragon, a scruffy grey stray, squints and hisses at the camera from a garage floor after being rescued. Large patches of fur are shaved away after he got beat up by other cats and he has lacerations all over his body. His eyes are squinty and crusty.Dragon — a little more than 3 months later — looks much healthier. His face is calm and smiley with his beautiful green eyes open to the world. He is wearing a little green shirt with a teddy bear on it because it stops him from meowing in the middle of the night when he feels comfy and secure.
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
absence she left behind as a writer, as a Black writer, as a Black woman writer. Morrison was a monster and a marvel, mortal and divine. Behold her complexity and weep in awe and anguish. 🧵 4/4
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
and commitment to exploring Black ingenuity and genius, particularly from a single writer? A book like this is something profound in general, but its focus on Toni Morrison makes it all the more important because of who she was and what she meant and what she still means in the terrible 🧵 3/4
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
aloud about the creative choices, structural explorations, inspirations, and dialogues with contemporary artistic movements, what books can you recall that say Black writers are doing the work of making literature just as their white counterparts are? What book can you recall that shows love 🧵 2/4
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Currently reading: On Morrison — Namwali Serpell #AmReading There are not many books that dedicate themselves to exploring the creative output of a single black author. That is not to say there are not books that explore the biographies of black writers, but when you sit down and wonder 🧵 1/4
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A mature show to return to over and over again. It has more than its fair share of flaws, but when you talk about a unique viewing experience, literally nothing compares to it, before or after, sadly. Currently watching: Sense8 — 2015–2018 · Series
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It seems there are a lot of us.
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Currently watching: X-Men '97 — 2024– · Series
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Currently reading: Joy Is My Middle Name — Sasha Debevec-McKenney #AmReading Some of the poems get me, and some of the poems don't, but that's a me problem. Overall, I think it's well done for what it is doing. Very casual, and at times profound. Worth a read at least once.
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Does it make any sense at all to try and become a well-respected author that goes on national and international promotion tours as an elaborate vehicle to stealth flirt and find true love? Am I more crazy than I realize entertaining such a delusion, or is it genius motivation for my life goals?
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Rob Thomas @rmichaelthomas.com · 01/05/2026
I have been sitting with this today because 😮‍💨
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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
2 lines into a book: this is the worst. it’s so slow. i don’t know what any of these names mean. what’s going on? 20 chapters into a book: i don’t know how i’m going to continue living when this book ends
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
i never said you have to get formal training or a degree of any kind. study can be self-study. practice can be making lots of drafts. experience can involve sending your work out to galleries/publishers and/or sharing it online. i just mean actually doing the work. not just fantasizing/aspiring.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"i could draw/paint/write that." ok but you didn't. and you won't come anywhere close if you think it requires zero study/practice/experience.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Maybe my agent loves the new novel. Maybe she hates it. Maybe we sell it. Maybe we don’t. There’s a thousand other maybes, and I don’t control any of them. What I control is the work, so I worked a bit on the next one yesterday. Always be writing the next one.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.
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Plangdi Neple @plangdi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Please support Anathema's return and the revival of a space for queer writers of colour!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.
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A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall
Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.
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Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Something good of mine is coming soon. I haven't published in so long so this is such a blessing. Other eyes will finally be upon you, glorious one.
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Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Forged in FIYAH, edited by @davaun.bsky.social, showcases the extraordinary talent and innovation of contemporary Black SFF!🔥 This collection of 18 stories features tales from mainstays of genre fiction alongside the dynamic, groundbreaking work of several of FIYAH's most promising newcomers.
A graphic featuring the cover of Forged in FIYAH and text that says: "Featuring Stories By..."A graphic with a list of authors names against a galaxy background. The authors names are: Maurice Broaddus, MH Ayinde, Tonja K. Johnson, C.L. Clark, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and WC Dunlap.A graphic with a list of authors names against a galaxy background. The authors names are: Veronica G. Henry, Sheree Renée Thomas, Tonya R. Moore, Brent Lambert, Tobi Ogundiran, and Tade Thompson.A graphic with a list of authors names against a galaxy background. The authors names are: Nelson Rolon, Eden Royce, Eboni Dunbar-Scott, Yvette Ndlovu, Emmalia Harrington, and LD Lewis.
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On Trans Day of Visibility, read something free by me: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cons... "There’s dysphoria, and then there’s turning into a mid-size city."
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Construction Sacrifice - Lightspeed Magazine
Fejértorony There’s dysphoria, and then there’s turning into a mid-size city. But sometimes you try male, you try female, you try different kinds of nonbinary and it only makes you realize that someth...
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