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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 04/01/2026

Next time you’re in DC, hit up Elmina for the hamachi crudo. Phew. Stupid good

Appetizers
Hamachi Crudo - 26
Passion fruit. Peri-peri oil.
Tender herbs. Serrano. Radish.
Corn nuts.

Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 20/09/2025

Finished reading Evan Winter’s “Rage of Dragons” this week. Excellent. 9/10 recommend. Halfway through Kyra Davis Lurie’s “The Great Mann.” Gotten pretty lucky with these two back to back.

Cover of The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter. Swords and shields lay beneath a shield with a dragon emblazoned on the front. A stone tableau of a Queen and fighters form the background of the image.

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 12/09/2025

Out here feeling brand new after making the Blacksky migration Rudy the 🐐

Lori Lightfoot in one of her grey overly large suits, with her hands folded and a pleased and bemused expression her somehow always memeable face

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 11/09/2025

No need to be ahistorical. MLK was guarded by ppl packin heat. Bayard Rustin himself SAT ON A GUN in the man’s house 😭 The movement used nonviolence as a tactic. Not a way of life. 🫩

Screenshot from the zinn project

Hartman Turnbow, a farmer and community leader.
Asserting their right to defend themselves when attacked was a tradition that has safeguarded and sustained generations of Black people in the United States. Yet this tradition is almost completely absent from the conventional narrative of the Southern civil rights struggle. Organized self-defense in Black communities goes back to the aftermath of the Civil War. Guns were an integral part of Southern life. Although many rural Blacks respected protesters' use of nonviolence, they also mistrusted it.
Hartman Turnbow, a Black Mississippi farmer and community leader, was a case in point. With tragic foresight, Turnbow bluntly warned Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, "This nonviolent stuff ain't no good.
It'll get ya killed."

Cover of Charles E Cobb Jrs “The Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible”

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 26/08/2025

These DC grand juries ain’t indicting nobody on these bogus fascist felony charges. Love this for us.

A white woman under a table is screaming. Laughing or in sheer terror. Who cares. DC ain’t indicting nobody 😭

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 24/08/2025

Woo boy. Taking advice from ppl would wouldn’t call out their racist relatives at their own family reunions???

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 11/08/2025

I just wanna focus on my mage’s build. Instead I gotta deal with goofy fascists in the streets.

A Black man who has had it up to HERE with these weird fascist goons in the White House, is smoking and entire pack of cigarettes while holding his head clearly, and UTTERLY over this decaying and desiccated empire.

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 10/08/2025

Hung out with the nephew today. Good stuff! He’s such a good egg. Even if he whipped my butt in laser tag, mini golf…everything 😂😭

Me, a tall black trans dude wearing hey Arnold tank and blue jean shorts, carrying my pretty tall nephew on my back through a parking lot. We’re both smiling

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025

I just completed a CrossFit workout at my queer box that woulda killed me back in October when I first started. Used a 50lb kettlebell and 45lb dumbbell for the walking lunges. Finished in 13:57 🫡

The screenshot for my CrossFit workout today:

Thursday, July 31, 2025
WOD (Checkmark)
In Gym:
35x box jump, 24/20" platform
60x russian swing @ 70/55-lbs.
50x walking lunge @ 70/55-
Ibs.
40x russian swing
30x walking lunge
20x russian swing
10x walking lunge
35x box jump, 24/20" platform

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025

Phew This novel will be finished. I’m closer to the end than I am to the beginning. Maybe another 15k to the end. Then another entire read through to clean up plot, word choice, phrasing, and THEN finally to my agent.

Screenshot of my word count for my novel.

110054 words
610980 characters
501606 characters (excluding spaces)

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 24/06/2025

Boi, I’ll tell you what. 🫠🫠 www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Screenshot from an NBC News article. A bag of takeout from DoorDash is visible with food. It reads:

NBC NEWS
•WATCH
BUSINESS NEWS
'Eat now, pay later'? DoorDash-Klarna deal fuels concerns around loans for takeout
The food-delivery app and the installment lender say they're offering a flexible alternative to high-interest credit cards. Some social media users and advocates see it as a sign of hard times.

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 17/06/2025

I’m sorry, but this don’t even turn all the way over 🫠

Screenshot from the NBC News article that says:

The court document states that BOP officials offered Stine, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang who has a terminal cancer diagnosis, an opportunity "to live out the last of those months as a free man" in exchange for killing Kelly.
Instead, the court documents allege, Stine told Kelly
"the truth" and "that his life was absolutely in danger."

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 28/05/2025

This would make me send myself to the lord. ain’t “the way outta no way” I wanna know about

A chimp in a blonde wig wearing an oxygen plug in their nose, throws their head back and is clearly letting out the biggest weary sigh, because what you mean the baby was a surprise??????

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 24/05/2025

Yuuuup!! 😭 im so confused by their relationship lmao

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 23/05/2025

Getting there, getting there. My agent will be so happy when I finally deliver this thing. Shoot, me too!!

Screenshot of my story word count.

Word Count
Pages
243
Words
100148
Characters
556340
Characters excluding spaces
456837

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 20/05/2025

I think about this book a lot when I come across this mess

Cover of the book:

The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture

by Vincent Woodard

Edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride. Foreward by E. Patrick Johnson

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 15/05/2025

I’m so close to being finished with this novel I could scream! And yet…”The End” retreats 🙄 I need these characters to stop telling their story to ME lol

Screenshot of my novel word count.

97054 words

539017 characters

442592 characters excluding spaces

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025

Drop a gif of the “scheduling conflict” that came up for Jalen Hurts

A silver haired white grandma takes a mean hit from a blue bong

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025

Bday’s tomorrow, and I’ve had a great birthday weekend. Wifey got me Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (woweeee what a GAME) Had brunch overlooking the water on a beautiful day. Saw Sinners. 10/10 movie for sure Taking work off tomorrow to chill, game and 💨🍃 Ya boi is pleased

Michael B Jordan, wearing wire rimmed glasses with photoshopped box braids, gold hoops, and lime green long nails, presses his hand to his throat with a pleased and proud smile on his face. Yes. The image looks as ridiculous as it sounds.

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 27/04/2025

In a minute they gonna start taking Trump’s approval by hair color. Like break these polls down by race, ya cowards!

Jada Pinkett Smith pointing with a smirk on her face, wearing a bright orange outfit

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 23/04/2025

Scalawag Magazine is seeking pitches! They can be sent to: pitches@scalawagmagazine.org Scalawagmagazine.org I don’t work for them, just passing along what hit my inbox.

Screenshot from scalawag. It reads:

Our "Dirty Energy, Dirty South" series seeks
submissions that will offer continued analysis of disaster capitalism in the South, with a special emphasis on "dirty energy" and how it manifests as
environmental racism and state abandonment.
SUBMIT A PITCH

We encourage submissions regarding the following topics.
• Data centers in Southern
Black communities
• Impacts of federal environmental protection rollbacks
in the South
• Histories of "dirty energy" and infrastructure underdevelopment in Southern communities
• Regional histories of disaster capitalism: The Gulf
South, Appalachia, The Coastal South
• Trump's "drill baby drill" oil agenda and what lifting protections against further
Gulf Coast drilling means for the region
• LNG infrastructures: their genesis and continued expansion under
the guise of
"clean" energy and its impacts on Southern communities (MVP, coastal communities in LA, etc.)
• Coverage of clean energy-focused contemporary Southern environmentalists and climate justice movements

• South-to-South connections between "dirty energy"
struggles and issues in the
U.S. and Global Souths
• Climate issues, energy, and industrial networks at the
intersection of genocides and warfare
• Compounding disasters and community recovery from
Southern wildfires, chemical contamination, and extreme
weather events
• Re-industrialization in the
South
• Labor movements and worker's conditions in Southern energy and climate-related industries, including the treatment of oil and gas
field waste workers
• Climate justice and the prison industrial complex

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 18/04/2025

They had every opportunity to stop this, and kept landing on, “but what if we mix the policy of appeasement that has been ~so~ successful in the past with white supremacy and the belief that wealth = intelligence. Surely that’s never gone wrong.”

Gayle King getting off the shuttle from that billionaire reputation laundering space trip like we’re supposed to applaud an egregious waste of money so she can look absolutely haggard upon landing back at earth. Which she does.

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 17/04/2025

Done. The finish line is so close. Will likely hit about 105 - 110k once these final scenes are added. Thank goodness!

A screenshot of my word count for my novel.

Word count
90895 Words
504569 Characters
414271 Characters (excluding spaces)

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 17/04/2025

JKR spends her money making trans lives harder and deadass put the most offensive stereotypes in a series under the guise of telling a magical story. Meanwhile, we still got 35+ year olds getting Harry Potter tattoos, playing the games, claiming houses like goobers and swearing they “allies”.

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 16/04/2025

You a good brother cause I woulda been banging pots and pans. Like “wake UP!!”

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Morgan Givens 🏳️‍⚧️ @optimusmo.blacksky.app · 16/04/2025

The dems said, “we ain’t protecting no human rights. If brown and Black immigrants are illegally kidnapped by the government and shipped to a foreign gulag, it’s not our fight. But trust us! We’ll absolutely fight for a citizen.” Y’all can’t fight ~now~ I ain’t no dummy 😂

That doggone hair shellacked livery basketball coach. Dude is wearing thick black glasses the same shade as the black shellac his barber felonious used to cover up a bald spot that’s way more obvious now.

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