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Debbie N

@kith51.bsky.social
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Joined with the mass influx, but for slightly different reasons. I left Xhitter many months ago when the anti-Semitism went public; joined after 11/5 in need of better communication lines. Economic justice, science fiction, community, books.

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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
David Cobb was One of the Good Ones, both personally and politically. As a Green Party presidential candidate in the early 2000s, he helped start the election integrity movement. I hope to attend this celebration virtually.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Dammit RIP indeed. The below from qospress is not Freddie’s work; here’s a typical example. I don’t think this one was a Tiptree t-shirt.
Elaborate collage in black and white with a medievally dressed woman in the center, mandala patterns around the edges and a floral pic in the top left.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A snapshot that completely establishes -- to my satisfaction, anyway -- that the current AI boom is nothing but a fragile bubble. And we will end up paying the price.
A closed circle of 10 AI companies, showing how they invest in each other and are each other's clients. Includes Microsoft, Google, Open AI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Dell
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
2/28: #BlackHistoryMonth We'll close with the late great #Octavia_Butler, whom I was privileged to know casually. She was basically the first science fiction author to win a Macarthur "Genius Grant," to go along with her PEN Lifetime Achievement Award. ... www.octaviabutler.com
Butler in a print jacket with muted rich colors, and long drop earrings, thoughtfully autographing someone's book,
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
2/27: #BlackHistoryMonth is almost over. I want to end with two much more familiar names, people whose lives and work matter to me personally. Since Friday is #BuyNothingDay, tonight we honor the great #John_Lewis. He would undoubtedly be participating (if not leading) if he were still with us. ...
A formal headshot of Lewis, mid-chest up, in coat and tie, with the U.S. Congress building in the background. He's looking straight at us, with the very slightest of smiles.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
2/26: #BlackHistoryMonth Because of my own lifelong connections with publishing, I'm especially glad to know about Robert Sengstacke Abbott. Abbott got his law degree in 1898, but was prevented by racism from practicing law. ... chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/pr...
A studio portrait of a mustachioed, dark-skinned Black man, wearing a coat and tie, visible from the upper chest up, looking into the camera with a serious expression.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
2/24: #BlackHistoryMonth We wouldn't have Black history without Black historians, so today I uplift Drs. #SharonHarley and #RosalynTerborg-Penn. Their book, The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images, was first published in 1978 and reissued in 1997 ... www.blackclassicbooks.com/the-afro-ame...
Dr. Terborg-Penn in a black hat and black jacket, with long earrings. To her right are photos of Black graduating classes. She's smiling at the camera.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Many of his portraits were of people who came in off 125th Street. His famous subjects include poet Countee Cullen, dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, and black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. This one is called "Portrait of a Young Woman."
A beautiful young dark-skinned Black woman in a nearly floor-length white dress with ruffles at the hem, holding a white hat and a bouquet of flowers. Similar flowers are on her lower left, and palm fronds on her upper right. She looks like she might be standing on a bench on a porch or veranda.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
bell hooks, whom I was lucky enough to hear speak one time, was a scholar of race, feminism, capitalism, gender ... and love. Her ALL ABOUT LOVE: NEW VISIONS made the NY Times bestseller list during protests in response to George Floyd's murder, more than 20 years after it was published.
Hooks in a black outfit and long orange scarf, facing toward the right of the photo, pen in one hand, microphone in the other. Part of a piece of art and another person's shoulder are visible on the right.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The list of her awards as the artistic director is too long for skeets. And there are so many photographs of her dancing. Here's one: #Judith_Jamison #AILEY #contemporary_dance
Jamison alone on stage, in a circle of light. Her legs are spread, her left arm is outstretched, her right arm at her neckline. Her tunic and skirt in oranges and tans echo the blues and black of the stage lights behind her.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
We wouldn't have what we call "country" if it wasn't for Rodgers, who pioneered much of the genre, including the yodeling that was emblematic of the music for many decades. Rodgers won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2017. Like so much else in the U.S., country music is Black music.
Rodgers in a tall cowboy hat and a buttondown shirt, playing his guitar, which has "Jimmie Rodgers" written across the neck.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Catching up on #blackhistorymonth. Mary Church Terrell co-founded the National Association of Colored Women, the 1st secular national organization dedicated to African-American women. One thing they did was create nurseries and kindergartens for Black children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ch...
Church Terrell in middle age, seated in an ornate chair wearing a white dress with frilled cuffs and a tiered skirt, resting her face on her left hand.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I missed 2/5 and 2/6 for #blackhistorymonth. Catching up now. In Colin Kaepernick's lineage we find high-jumper Eroseanna ("Rose") Robinson, a civil rights activist who refused to stand for the US anthem in 1959 at the PanAmerican games in Chicago. tinyurl.com/4kbyzrck #black_activism #protest
Newspaper-quality black-and-white headshot of Robinson, wearing a headscarf.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
2/4 Guion Bluford, the first Black U.S. astronaut. More about him and other Black astronauts in THE SPACE RACE films.nationalgeographic.com/the-space-race Thanks to @waywardcats.bsky.social for this one. #BlackHistoryMonth #astronaut #space_exploration
Bluford in his orange spacesuit, with various NASA and US patches, holding his helmet (helmet is partially shown)
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Okay, they can’t have #blackhistorymonth and Black people shouldn’t have to carry the ball on this one. I’ll start by lifting up my hero, #PauliMurray (1910-1985): legal scholar who designed the basis of Brown v Board of Education (and didn’t get any public credit). …
Black and white photo of a young Pauli Murray, gazing at the camera.
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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Very bright colored alebrije (Mexican paper sculpture) of a stylized fox with huge ears, stripes, geometric patterns, and a giant pink circle on its tail
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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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