iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 04/12/2025

I have been making zines like they’re going out of style the last few days. I especially like this sweet little physical edition of my essay for @vaultofculture.bsky.social “Flying Toward a Twenty-First Century Aesthetics of Technomagic Girlhood”

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 18/11/2025

Aw! That’s almost verbatim what my best friend said! High praise! Thank you!

A text that says “Reading this is like eating a warm cookie.”

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 06/09/2025

I went to visit The Printed Word, a Black owned indie bookstore in Portsmouth, VA and they had a solid collection of used books— Found this copy of Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset from the Black Women Writers series @dem8z.bsky.social edited at Beacon Press from 1985-1993 😍

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 16/05/2025

Dr. Christian M. Hines and I made a little IRONHEART mixtape! If you’re excited about the show dropping on Disney+ on June 24th, here’s some stuff you can read, watch or listen to about our girl! What are you exploring first?

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 14/05/2025

Throwback to when I assigned a comics annotation assignment in my Black Comics class last year and made the first spread of Riri Williams: Ironheart an option for their work

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 14/05/2025

If you are excited about the Ironheart trailer, might I interest you in my epistolary YA novel Love in 280 Characters or Less which has a decent amount of Ironheart references? 🫶🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/love...

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 11/04/2025

Reminder that I am not an academic anymore, but this chapter I worked on before I left just came out in Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice on Tuesday. Once upon a time, in a land far away and all that jazz…

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 29/03/2025

Finished copies of my 2nd YA novel, Love in 280 Characters or Less, arrived this week 💌 It’s a digital epistolary following a wannabe fashion writer’s first semester in college, dealing with freshman life, familial expectations and online crushes. Preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025

It’s February! My favorite month! And an excellent month to buy my YA romance, Love Requires Chocolate! Why? It’s Valentine’s Day! It’s Black History Month (lots of Josephine Baker inspo)! It’s my birthday! Here’s some Valentine’s Day gift inspo & a link to the book bookshop.org/p/books/love...

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 13/01/2025

I am probably going to shout about this LEGO set forever! It was such a good, easy build, especially for beginners; only took an hour or so to finish; it’s the PERFECT size to use for a desk decoration; it looks SO GREAT; it’s a 3-in-1 set; and it’s $30 which is the affordable end for LEGO!

Brown hand holding a mini LEGO typewriter adorned with LEGO flowers in front of real leaves

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 09/01/2025

Had to do my own investigation. It’s not in many Targets in Virginia but there was one in Virginia Beach that had it!!!!!!!!! I HAVE A BOOK THAT IS SELLING *IN* (some) TARGET STORES!!!

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 04/01/2025

What the inside of my brain looks like when I have an idea lol

An open journal and three books open stacked on top of each other: Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America open to “On Going Home as Performance,” Toni Morrison’s The Source of Self-Regard open to “The Nobel Prize in Literature” and Milestone Compendium One open to page 2 of Hardware #1

An open journal and three books open stacked on top of each other: Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America, Toni Morrison’s The Source of Self-Regard and Milestone Compendium One

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 01/01/2025

On my mind: How Black girls’ grief create just as expansive worlds as their joy. “Circles and circles of sorrow.” -Toni Morrison, SULA

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 28/12/2024

And if you don’t wanna open, here’s a little graphic with what I posted about

The covers of the following books: With Love, Echo Park by Laura Taylor Namey
Mexikid by Pedro Martín
Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice by Ashleigh Greene Wade
Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story by Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Blood Justice by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal by Ambika Vohra
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
That Self-Same Metal and Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. Williams
This Land is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Davenports: More Than This by Krystal Marquis
Black Girl Power edited by Leah Johnson
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Wrath of the Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan
The Dividing Sky by Jill Tew
Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas
Jackie Ormes Draws the Future: The Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist by Liz Montague
The Partner Plot by Kristina Forest

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 26/12/2024

This is the back. Idk why I didn’t post it originally

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 23/12/2024

I made the most glorious cookies. Espresso chocolate chip, gingerbread (ft. A real rainbow!), iced lemon shortbread cookies, and a little dog determined to get a cookie ❤️🥹

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 22/12/2024

Delighted to be nominated for “Favorite YA Book” and “Favorite BGC Book Club Interview” for Brown Girl Collective’s 2024 Lit Year in Review! If you’d like to vote, here’s the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Graphic for Brown Girl Collective’s Favorite BGC Book Club Interview featuring the cover of Ravynn K. Stringfield’s Love Requires Chocolate, along with ReShonda Tate’s The Queen of Sugar Hill and Crystal Wilkinson’s Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts

Graphic for Brown Girl Collective’s Favorite Young Adult Book featuring the cover of Ravynn K. Stringfield’s Love Requires Chocolate, along with the cover of Renee Watson’s Black Girl You Are Atlas

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 22/12/2024

Super excited about these. They’re all dot grid, 192 pages, 160 gsm. The teal has Kraft paper, the navy has deckled edges!! And the black has gilded edges. Very into them.

Side view of three journals. A small teal one with Kraft paper pages, a larger navy one with white deckled edges, and black one the same size as the navy with gilded edges, held up by a brown hand

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 22/12/2024

Figuring out my 2025 journal situation. The small teal one to the left is going to become an address book. The navy floral will be my bullet journal for the first third or half of the year. The black floral will be my one-line-a-day 5 year journal. All from Archer & Olive Side view threaded below

Brown hand holding up a small teal with a chess piece embossed on it journal, a navy floral embossed journal, and a black painted floral journal fanned out to show all three covers

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 13/12/2024

My holiday cards are so cute this year! Almost done sending them out, just a few left to write! 🎊

A brown hand holding up a small stack of note cards with a gingerbread man on the front with “seasons greetings” written on red ribbons across the head and legs.

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 20/20

The cover of the book Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 11/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 19/20

The cover of the graphic novel Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 10/12/2024

So much we have lost today but oh, how much she gave us. Rest well, Nikki Giovanni. I hope your spirit gets to visit Mars ✨

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 09/12/2024

August 2024 was Whitney Curry Month but I’m claiming all of 2025 for Sydney Ciara Warren 🤑

The cover of Love in 280 Characters or Less by Ravynn K. Stringfield

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 18/20

The cover of the book Magical/Realism by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024

This isn’t even all my DC YA GNs (one does not belong in the picture but I didn’t retake it.) These are simply SO effective. It gives readers an entry point into comics/comics lore following one central character in a standalone project that are often available in B&N/Walmart/Target.

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 17/20

Cover of L.M. Montgomery’s book Anne of Green Gables

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 16/20

The cover of the book Lois Lane: Fallout by Gwenda Bond

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 06/12/2024

I made some blueberry muffins that were very delicious today

Close up of three blueberry muffins with crumble topping and one cut in half to expose blueberries inside on a glass plate.

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 15/20

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 03/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 14/20

The cover of the book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 13/20

The cover of The Lightning Thief by Rick RIORDAN

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 01/12/2024

This is a little bit about the festivals I got to go to as a debut YA author this fall. Debriefs on Southern Festival of Books and YALLFest

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 01/12/2024

I haven’t used a premade planner since like 2016 (I bullet journal) but I want this sunflower passion planner so bad!!!!

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 01/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 12/20

The cover of the book We Do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 11/20

The cover of the book sassafras’s cypress and indigo by Ntozake Shange

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 29/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 10/20

The cover of the book Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo. It featured a wicker chair with flowers down the left side.

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 29/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 9/20

The cover of Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert. Yellow cover with a cartoon brown skinned man with a heart holding a plus sized darker brown skinned woman with shaved pink hair in his arms.

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 28/11/2024

At my favorite holiday tradition: sweet potato pie, coffee and marathoning Thanksgiving episodes of Gossip Girl ❤️

iPad with the opening scene of “Blair Waldorf Must Pie!” From season 1 of Gossip Girl on the screen featuring Serena van der Woodsen twirling in the street. A slice of sweet potato pie and a cup of coffee are in the foreground in front of the iPad

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 28/11/2024

I chatted with @laurataylornamey.bsky.social about being uncool in front of authors you admire at YALLFest and I confessed she was an author I admired because she was someone I read when I decided to actively pursue publishing. She sent me a copy of her latest 🥹❤️ Fangirls won this round 😂❤️

A copy of the book With Love, Echo Park by Laura Taylor Namey held in front of the camera by a brown hand

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 27/11/2024

Hi! 🌻 How about an intro post? I’m Ravynn 📚 Young Adult Author; debut Love Requires Chocolate is out now 🌻 Sunflower Lover 👩🏾‍🏫 Former Academic/Professor (American Studies Ph.D.) 🎨 Artsy & Crafty (current obsession: crochet 🧶) 💥 Comics Lover! (Lois Lane Apologist) 👩🏾‍💻 Editor at midnight & indigo!

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 27/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 8/20

The cover of James Patterson’s book “Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment” that has a girl with wings running away

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 27/11/2024

My post-publication glow up has been astonishing to behold

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 26/11/2024

One thing about me, I’m gonna fill a journal. Left are journals I’ve filled since 2020 + the two I’m currently writing in. Left features four that I kept from 2017-2019. This is not all of them, I have like 3-5 from this time period, also full, in storage.

A stack of 13 journals on top of a small bookcase and two standing up beside it, partially obscuring a lego typewriting. This is all underneath a Love in 280 Characters or Less poster.

A stack of 13 journals on top of a small bookcase and two standing up beside it, partially obscuring a lego typewriting. There is a brown hand holding 4 journals to the left of these stacks. This is all underneath a Love in 280 Characters or Less poster.

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 7/20

The cover of the collected trade volume of Eve L. Ewing and Luciano Vecchio’s Ironheart run, “Ironheart: Meant to Fly”

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 26/11/2024

I just felt like sharing old art ❤️

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 25/11/2024

Library haul! I already have a couple things on deck ( I literally just started the Davenports 2 last night) but my library finally got Jill’s book in and James available…so obviously I had to also get This is my America just to round things out 😅

The spines of 3 books, from left to right: the dividing Sky by Jill Tew, James by Percival Everett and This is My America by Kim Johnson

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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app · 25/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 6/20

The cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. This version features a portrait sketch of a Black woman facing front with her eyes closed

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