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Ajanaé Dawkins

@moonsatdusk.bsky.social
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Poet. Theologian. Educator. Neurodivergent disco queen. Co-host of the VS Podcast. Theology Editor: @ecotheo

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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I have 2 or 3 poems from my chapbook BLOOD-FLEX with @ndrmag that I would love to place before publication next spring. Leads? Recs? Folks accepting work that don't have 6 month to year turn arounds?
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
To be clear on the kind of chokehold Doechii got me in, I'm about to write a Golden Shovel with "I air this bitch out like a queef" as my reference line.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
🥹❤️‍🔥 that’s how I felt sitting in the convo!
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I know we been discussing the quality of Kendrick’s hatred but I’m invested in how he embraces obsession. One of my fears as a creator is being staying stuck on the same idea for too long. Sharing the same poem too many times. Writing about the same topic for too many projects.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Not Like Us” ain’t even on the album; there aren’t any direct references to Drake in the music video for “squabble up” really. Kendrick gave that man a merciful out and he really said “nah, I wanna talk to the manager.” INCREDIBLE.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Baby’s first Bluesky announcement ❤️ Gwendolyn Brooks Permissions for named me a Gwendolyn Brooks Living Legacy Honoree in the company of Black women whose work made mine possible and some sister friends ❤️‍🔥
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hey Bluesky friends ❤️ I’m a conceptual artist and theologian who works through poetry, visual art, performance, and audio. Here’s a poem I wrote about watching my mother give birth ❤️
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Mikey jay @zenwyn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Peacemaking is dangerous when powerful men and their God — money — want the war to continue. - Kazim Ali
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Last night I spent 4 hours yapping with a friend over drinks and dinner snd it was so good for my soul.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
without tenderness, we are in hell. —Adrienne Rich * & so to tenderness I add my action. —Aracelis Girmay
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m an audiobook lover and educator. I don’t believe listening to audiobooks is reading. While I don’t think one activity is more moral/valid, I do think we’re facing a serious literacy crisis and the insistence that they are the same is dangerous. Literacy rates are abysmal and this will impact us.
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Mel Smith @iammelsmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m too busy trying to create a beautiful life for myself
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Spooky Village Lady @dessasdaughtr.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Y’all know. It’s okay if Kendrick DID mean to disrespect Wayne. Sometimes you really do gotta tell the elders to shut the fuck up talking to you.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Introduce yourself with 4 albums
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
One of my mentors would tell me “it would be unkind of me to lie to you” whenever he gave feedback on my poems. I am so much better for the days I’ve spent tending my grief after people who meant me well refused to lie to me with niceties.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Reading through the quote skeets like yes, these are the vibes I have been waiting to arrive to this app!
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is the year that being a Kendrick fan started feeling like being a Beyoncé fan for me.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
BEING A TIDAL SUBSCRIBER RIGHT NOW WHEN KENDRICK IS ONLY ON APPLE AND SPOTIFY GOT ME FEELING LIKE
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Just spent two days applying for some arts funding that actually wouldn’t be available until 2026 when I thought I’d be able to use it in 2 months. What the young kids say? I’m ’bout to crash out
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I am fighting the exact opposite impulses 😭
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This has me screaming 😭
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Okay what’s y’all’s plan to get your bluesky followers caught up on your lore?
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I’m sorry, bluesky is giving new app new me more than any new year ever has
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The struggle with bluesky is that most of y’all don’t know me so every time I post I’m resisting temptation to treat this like my close friends 😭
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saint skeeter. @saintszn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Damn, while I appreciate how thorough the block button on bluesky is…how am I supposed to be nosey when I can’t see who y’all clapping back to?!?! 😭 this app said mind your business
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thank you very much.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Once again, Blue Sky is not prepared for video 😭
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My great-grandmother Dorothy’s mink was my first installation. Visitors could sit with it, put on headphones, and listen to me interview her during her final months of life battling cancer. We talked about raising daughters and what she wished she knew before marrying, and her love for travel.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I will never forgive Twitter for the day that girl posted about how she enjoyed having breakfast with her partner and chatting in the morning and the internet called her everything but a child of God
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Skeeting for those of us that aren’t sold on blue sky but are here anyways tryna figure it out
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Ignore me, just bookmarking ❤️
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"In her bold and bodacious debut, Rogers celebrates the resilience of Black women in her hometown of Detroit.... and pushes poetry in a new direction." @debutiful.bsky.social names ✨Good Dress by Brittany Rogers a Best Debut Poetry collection of 2024! debutiful.net/2024/11/19/t...
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The Best Debut Poetry of 2024
In a continued effort to read more and cover more poetry, Debutiful wanted to highlight a dozen of the best collections Adam Vitcavage read. This list supplements the Best Debut Books of 2024, but …
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
10/10 recommend regularly making out with your partner on the couch, in the car, in secluded corners like love drunk teenagers no matter how many years you’ve been together or how grown you are
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Can we just name the anxiety of being an working artist and watching platforms you deeply rely on to maintain a living possibly collapse?
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Alright, made my first attempt at a video post and I don’t know that this app is ready for that kinda heavy lifting yet.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you told me 3 years ago that not only would I be a curator and visual artist with a whole solo exhibition but that my work would be featured on @PBS and @hulu I would have called you a liar but here’s to surprising myself. Here I talk about working as a Black archivist ❤️
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I can only post 60 second video clips over here?! 😭
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reposting this cause we don’t have the bookmarking function and I need to be able to come back to it.
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Melech. @melechthomas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Wanna know an elite gospel song? “Jesus Promised” x The Chicago Mass Choir It’s congregational. Upbeat. Simple theological truths. Three part harmony. Super churchy. The Altos on “ALL I HAVE TO DO IS LIVE RIGHT” >>> Perfect example of the best of Black sacred music.
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🤣😭
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Felt this a lot this year. The “damn, I’m really an artist.” Set in
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I struggle with this because I feel like both texts that challenge you and mindless feel good books are important. Anti-intellectualism is real but sometimes I wanna read Toni Morrison and sometimes I wanna read Twilight 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Baby that’s a promise
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🤣😂😭
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Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What the hell is a skeet?
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