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Erica Violet Lee

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Erica Violet Lee @ericavioletlee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do I know anyone in Paris? My phone was stolen
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.” June Jordan
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Take a look up into the skies
The moon and blue skyThe moon and blue sky.
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"You need the ocean for this: to stop believing in reality. To ask yourself impossible questions. To not know. To cease knowing. To become intoxicated by the smell. To close your eyes. To stop believing in reality." - Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest
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NPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025
The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."
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Canadian writer Canisia Lubrin wins $150K Carol Shields literary prize
The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."
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Erica Violet Lee @ericavioletlee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
the river we call ka-kisiskaciwan.* Often we camp near the elbow of the South Branch, but sometimes we go even farther south to minatinähk, many nights from here. Or we go west towards the mountains to visit relatives.
"This is our physical world. It is a good world, a world of plenty for the Nehiyaw, the Nehiyawak. Exact body. Exact body of people. It is the physical world in which we live.
The old man grew more serious as he gathered his thoughts together.
"The name Nehiyaw, Nehiyawak, the names of the places where we live and where we hold our ceremonies, the names we give these places, all these are spiritual. The Creator gave us life. Our land, which we call Mother Earth, nurtures us, gives us growth. The number four is sacred.
There are four main spirit helpers, four directions, four seasons, and four stages of life childhood, young adult, adult, and old age."
"The Sun, which we call kih-oskapewis, is the Great Helper of the Creator," the old man continued. "This spirit helper comes up from the east and it provides us with daylight. If it wasn't for kihc-oskapewis, who works for the Creator to give us daylight and warmth, where would the Cree be?
In darkness. So we thank the Sun every morning as it comes up for this life-giving. That is the work the Creator gave the Sun. Kihc-oskapèwis never stops working for the Creator. It never did.
"Okimaw-piyesiw, Chief Thunder that rumbles through the skies in the spring is also sacred. It shakes the ground and shakes the skies. Piyesiw gives people life with life-giving water, the rains that are needed for the body and the things that live on Mother Earth, the rains that are needed for the people. It gives water, which we call the milk of Mother Earth, so that Mother Earth can nurture us. The Creator planned it this way. Okimaw-piyesiw, who is in the south, gives us the water that we need to live…
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We are happy to launch Workshops4sudan to raise funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan. Our debut series features the writer and abolitionist @williamcson.bsky.social and the organizer, artist and social justice educator @raniawrites.bsky.social. To sign up go to: sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...
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Workshops4Sudan – Sudan Solidarity Collective
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If you don’t think education in the west as a double edged sword are you even being serious? So much of the brutal relations of domination are justified & maintained through and in education. It has been insurgent knowledge(s) (like Black Std) that offer some hope of escape/relief — maybe freedom.
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything - tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.” - Victoria Wright
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place” Toni Morrison
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
hractoronto.net
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Countdown To Mass Casualties
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
There have to be other ways to talk about political community inside nation-states without invoking nationalism. How about collective responsibility to those whom we share nothing in common with beyond the sanctity of life and geography? Let’s take the opportunity to invent new social relations.
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Erica Violet Lee @ericavioletlee.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
What if I don’t want the world to end
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Ininiw Acakosuk: the Cree stars | Tracking 16 Ininiw constellations and their narratives across the night sky. Wilfred Buck: acakwuskwun.com?
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fairly rare photographs, for the time period, of daily life for Indigenous families, here shopping in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, around 1900. Also good details on the images. 📷 Mabel Daumais | maa. University of Cambridge
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Saskatoon. The river’s breath at -25c
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Erica Violet Lee @ericavioletlee.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
You know I’d leave any party for you 🎶🎈🍾
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