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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Excited to be moderating a panel at #DallasLiteraryFestival with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Renee Simms and Latoya Watkins. Also already fangirling to catch festival headliner @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social #BlackBookSky #blacksky #bvm #blackwriters #blackwomen #booksky

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

My novel available in hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

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Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order

Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Simply Beautiful by Al Green but I'll listen to any rendition.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 13/02/2025

Tuberculosis killed 1/4th of Europe not too long ago. We are now in the largest TB outbreak in U.S. history. A man who doesnt believe in vaccines is now the head of our country’s public health. The U.S. ERADICATED measles 25 years ago. It’s now surging. RFK Jr. called it fake.

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Adoption Noire has been doing work to redress this by representing Black hoping to adopt couples. But there's still a fair amount of anti-LGBTQ from the birth mothers. We're going through DCFS now.

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It can be extremely cost prohibitive. There also is a narrative given to birth moms that encourages the idea that the best financial placement for their child is with a white or interracial couple. I've seen this in the "preference sheets" as well as "traditional family only" which excludes same-sex

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My wife & I are currently entering the foster/adoption process. As two Black queer women in the south, private adoption wasn't an option. Many agencies don't work with same-sex couples. There's many more adoption consultants, high price marketing firms. This is how they purchase Black babies.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I don't trash other authors. I do trash folk who talk reckless about Black women. If that person also happens to have written some books...🤷🏾‍♀️ "College educated Black women read more than all other groups." #blacksky #bvm #blackskyover40 #authors #writers #writingcommunity #blackwomen

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sucks...cause it took me a while to "trust" Google docs. Now I'm all in with Docs, Slides, Drive, etc.

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So your Word & Google docs can be scraped to train AI? I've been using Living Writer (pricey) for my writing but all my teaching notes, lectures, etc are housed in Google. I even use Classroom as my main platform. Guess part of my sabbatical will be to disengage Google. #writingcommunity

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Omar Tyree saying Black women don't swim because they don't wanna mess up hair and nails... But not knowing the history of racist policies around public swimming pools is ignorant AF. Pictured: the author and her swimming pool on her Arkansas homestead #blacksky #bvm #booksky #authors #writers

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When negotiating my publishing contract I insisted on: 1)A Black woman editor 2)A Black woman's art as cover design 3)A Black woman as audiobook narrator. This is how we hold the door open. My book got work for 3 Black women. #bvm #booksky #authors #blacksky #writers

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I live in Arkansas now. There's Jazzercise, Arby's and a JC Penny in my town. The gays are a bit in...arrears. 😏

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"Hello, little enemy." @nkjemisin.bsky.social gone Parable of the Sower prophecy on us.

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It's like Whitney Houston and Luther made singing look effortless. But then you pick up that karaoke mic... I like the analogy cause it doesn't mean don't sing. It just means recognize the skill & work it takes to make it a profession. #writers #bvm #booksky #authors

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is one of the main functions of art. Sustaining life especially in dismal times. It's also why art by the disenfranchised (i.e. Black, queer ME) is inherently political. My fiction tells the stories of people this current administration is fervently trying to erase.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Why is the USA the only country in the world with bird flu H5N1 ripping through cattle herds?

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Definitely why we purchased our 15 acre homestead back in 2020. Here is where we live self-sustainably and build generational security.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 04/02/2025

so y'all still don't think we need to whoop ass yet or

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Happy Black Hypervisibility Month! I celebrate blackness daily but if this is your month to recognize our history & humanity...you can do so by purchasing my historical fiction novel from your usual booksellers or an indie one. In hardcover, paperback, ebook & audiobook. #bvm #blacksky #booksky

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Them grants hit different when those 1099s arrive. "But it was a GIFT!"

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It's been since before Christmas that I checked on our fish pond. They've gotten bigger but still too thin. I'll be feeding them daily. Dug pond 1 year ago and stocked last spring. Follow @ConnerHomestead on FB, IB, YT, TT for more homesteading content. #blackskyover40 #homesteadsky #blackLGBTQ

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

He ran on a platform of white supremacy which appeals to the white majority.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My desire to be famous is completely separate from my goal of writing success. I've wanted fame as a vehicle for 3 things: 1)to be on Oprah (discontinued) 2)to be on Drunk History (canceled) 3)to be on Hot Ones A girl can still dream. #bvm #booksky #authors #blackskyover40

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, MLK, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Ruby Dee reading a collection of speeches by Black women, Langston Hughes curated collection...

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sometimes the garbage takes itself out 🤷🏾‍♀️

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We built mom a cottage #ShadyPines on our homestead & she's been in it for a year. Her house is selling in Chicago so we had to retrieve her things. I've inherited her extensive #vinylsky including jazz, blues, R&B, gospel and speeches, plays and poetry. Think I'll feature them here #blacksky

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Definitely support indie & any local Black-owned bookshops! They could use the support.

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M Shelly Conner @mshellyconner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Welcome, New Followers! I write books & things, drink bourbon, teach at a PWI in the Bible belt south, cook, and homestead all as a #BlackLGBTQ. #bvm #booksky #authors Although it informs most content on my socials, everything i do is about surviving & thriving #dystopiaUSA #blacksky

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