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Mx. Faylita Hicks

@mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social
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Grammy-nominated Writer, Performer, Interdisciplinary Artist. Author of A MAP OF MY WANT (Haymarket Books , 2024) and HOODWITCH (Acre Books, 2019).

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susanbearman.bsky.social @susanbearman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"We all have our own bits of everyday magic." @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social on Spirit-Led Writing: Ritual, Ritualization & the Creative Process rn @ Off Campus Writers' Workshop. #WritingCommunity #amwriting ocww.info
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
M is for A MAP OF MY WANT by @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (@haymarketbooks.org 2024) “The highway swells like tide and I lie awake..." From “ASMR Sleepcast: The Night After Being Released from the Hays County Jail" (first appeared in @yalereview.bsky.social ) www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2218-a...
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Applications for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's, sixth annual StoryBoard conference are now OPEN! Spend a week studying with one of these 8 amazing instructors -- either in-person or online -- in August. Apply are here: www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c... #writingcommunity
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Jennifer O'Connor @jennifer-oconnor.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Fall reading from @haymarketbooks.org: Azadi, Arundhati Roy Revolution Today, Susan Buck-Morss A Map of My Want, @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
At some point, I became one of those people who gets excited when a new data report drops. I literally just got a glass of water, some snacks, and snuggled in place to read a new report related to my research. What is this?!
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Congrats to Acre author @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I did a thing! My second poetry collection, A MAP OF MY WANT (@haymarketbooks) won the Midwest Book Award for Poetry!
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I know it’s been a minute. Slowly but surely making my way back over here!
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Delighted to see two Acre authors celebrated for their contributions to literary Chicago! Congrats @thejs3.bsky.social (DEFIANT ACTS) and @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉 lit.newcity.com/2025/06/04/l...
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Lit 50 2025: Institutions, Advocates and Programmers | Newcity Lit
Forty years ago, the first Printers Row Lit Fest was staged in the canyon between the old printing houses on Dearborn Street. To commemorate these forty years and to honor our literary community, we a...
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So excited to tell you about Ragdale’s annual fundraiser, More Than a Novel Affair, which I co-curated… It’s two days: Friday May 16 and Saturday May 17. If you’re in Chicago, FRIDAY’S event is more convenient: It’ll be at the Newberry Library (in partnership with @storystudiochicago.bsky.social) 🧵
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It features five seriously amazing authors (@kazimali.bsky.social, @jamiattenberg.bsky.social, Xochitl Gonzalez, Chigozie Obioma, and Claire Lombardo). They’ll be in conversation—moderated by the wonderful @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social—about making space for art and finding your voice.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
You hussle your whole life looking for a way into the light only to find yourself already glowing. I hope you keep reaching—your time is coming. I promise.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’m not at AWP this year but I’m internet lurking during my trip to NYC. 👀
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Congratulations to Acre author @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Leaning all the way into spirit’s gift of transformation, today! Grace and gratitude to the teams at The Mellon Foundation and @haymarketbooks.org. Grace and gratitude to my readers. Grace and gratitude to my people and my people’s people. May the light find us always.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Applications for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's, sixth annual StoryBoard conference are now OPEN! Spend a week studying with one of these 8 amazing instructors -- either in-person or online -- in August. Apply are here: www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c... #writingcommunity
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
"A screenshot of an NBC News article headline. The headline reads: 'Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.' Below the headline, a subtext states: 'The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.' The NBC News logo is visible at the top, along with a navigation bar that includes a 'WATCH' button and a user profile icon."
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
My millennial lover archetype according to the nostalgic trip I just went on via YouTube: 1/3 Travie McCoy 1/3 Lauryn Hill 1/3 Vin Diesel Explains the last 20 years. 🤣🫠
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
As an astro-spiritualist, I’m oddly hopeful. I’ve documented signs of the nation’s fall for years, so this moment doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is this sudden knowing that after we bring a stop to the oligarchy—we could be the ones to construct a new and more empathetic constitution.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Just secured my first solo art exhibition. Coming to Chicago Summer 2026. 🙌🏾🔥🙌🏾🔥🙌🏾
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I feel like way too many people forget the role art and music has played in helping us fight against the most egregious of acts throughout history. We need the artists to keep making. The musicians to keep making. Writers to keep writing. The creatives keep our stories and bring us forward.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/01/2025
"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."
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Welcome to the United States of Suppression
Our new series documents the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I feel like we must remind people that laws are really just community agreements. The minute a large enough collective stops agreeing, we’ve got a problem. Trump’s administration is trying to reinterpret the Constitution—but the reason it even exists is because of someone like him. Look familiar?
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 28/01/2025
The funding pause orders "are actually the most lawless, brazen, unconstitutional actions that this administration has yet taken, and if sanctioned by a conservative Supreme Court, they would amount to a full disbanding of our system of government." From @ddayen.bsky.social:
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Trump’s Most Lawless Action Yet
Pausing funds appropriated by Congress is a deliberate taunt to draw a legal challenge that the White House’s most radical architects think will give them unilateral spending power.
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Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Early-career literary translators, here is a grant for you! You could apply for it and get some help bringing a precious translation baby into this world!
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Words Without Borders Announces Third Annual Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders
This grant aims to support early-career translators seeking to bring international work into the English-language marketplace.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
These little privileges my generation’s enjoyed—the comfort in our imaginings of a real full-throated freedom just around the corner—is now under attack. Has been under attack. I am not shocked. I am incited.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/01/2025
"A recent study by the Prison Policy Initiative found that the median income of Black men before incarceration was $17,500 per year, compared to $39,000 for white men, further emphasizing economic disparities."
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I remain convinced that the Supreme Court will block Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship, and will to do by a lopsided vote. Yes, even THIS Supreme Court. Here's why: slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Why Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship Will Backfire at the Supreme Court
Donald Trump issued a patently unconstitutional executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship to children of millions of immigrants.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/01/2025
These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m supposed to be promoting a workshop I’m teaching next month, but it’s difficult for me to focus on adverts when all of this is going on.
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m a formerly undocumented immigrant in a mixed-status family. I’m also an investigative reporter. These remarks are terrifying. There will be many projects to work on and stories in tell in the coming years but today it feels nothing less than devastating to me that I’m currently unemployed.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is illegal, and the WaPo should be saying that in the FIRST SENTENCE, not further down in the paragraph.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’ve always said my job as a writer and activist is to witness. What I am witnessing is Hitler 2.0 outline his agenda.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
There are so many people of the global minority in that room…doesn’t look Iike North America in the slightest.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is a corporation who’s-who gala, not an inauguration.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This man said on national TV—the night before his inauguration—that he rigged the election with the help of Musk. I’m sick.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2025
Trump on Elon Musk: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Well this is quite an opener
NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was
appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means. What follows is a step-by-step account of how Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country's democratic structures and processes in less than two months' time_ specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes. The minutes, as we will see, mattered.
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Chicago: ICE raids potentially starting on 1/21/25. Please RP. Share with your friends and neighbors!
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Two violations for two videos—both uploaded today talking about how I’m worried about tomorrow’s inauguration. Both of these are my first ever violations on the platform after 5 years. Definitely something in the water…🫠
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I migrated all my Tik Tok vids to Fanbase, a black owned platform. I also uploaded 2 vids on TT today, one about how we need to share what’s happening during one of the most consequential presidential inauguration in this country’s history. I was immediately hit with a violation.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The last Tik Tok I saw sums up what I’ve been feeling—the app will never be the same, even if it reopens.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Biden commuting the sentences of 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses is a start. But just a start. The War on Drugs has devastated several generations of families. We will be trying to undo its impact for the rest of our lives. It’s still #endmassincareration .
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Don’t worry about me. Just having my regular post-Zoom poetry reading jitters. Anyone experience these?
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Going thigh my files and found a poem I liked so much, I had to double check if I’d wrote it. 😅🫠
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