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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I can’t be the only one who like never leaves this tab … I mean … I’m sure I luv the rest of yall but you gon have to find me here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Thrilled to share June Jordan’s *Poetry for the People: Expanded Edition*, coming this fall from @haymarketbooks.org with a new foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and new material by me. Pre-order this summer for 40% off! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2952-j... #blacksky #booksky

New Cover for the new and expanded 30th Anniversary edition of June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint -- updated by Samiya Bashir and with a new foreword by Hanif Aburraqib

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s … whatchyall know bout dat edition

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Me watching this match like 🫣

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This was literally a professional communication I just sent Nothing about the world makes sense anymore tbh

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

pick a Bond from a photo you already have on your phone

Black woman with chicken, black-and-white silver gelatin print, 1987, Carrie Mae Weems

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Me and my girls having an epic Bed Day of relaxation in celebration of my fave holiday! #HappyArborDay🌳

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A poem I wrote before our exact version of now. Still lands tho. “Let us stay parched. G’head, I dare you:” Some folks’ll hear metaphor. Some will hear policy. Some threat. What I wrote, though, was a promise. #FieldTheories

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I finally went to the Vatican. It was fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ poets.org/poem/i-trave...

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yall WHAT?! I just … how does this sentence make sense? We’ve jumped so many sharks the sharks are jumping us back atp

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My final letter from my 2025-26 #ThePoetryClinic residency: “Friendship values presence over performance. Sometimes intensity reigns, but steadiness stays. What I’m saying is, friendship abides.” poetryclinic.org/write-to-me-...

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

lol wut? But … I was literally giving thanks? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Just a reminder: y’all for real elected this mofo AGAIN!! Now lookit us … sigh. #HOWSway!!?

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Yall … this 6 years ago revisit is … a lot 😬 (Remember the toilet paper crisis? Jeeeeezus. And this mofo is in charge AGAIN lawd help us.)

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Sometimes, in the midst of a whole other thing, I come across random shit I said to someone some time because everything lives forever on the innerwebs and tbh I’m mostly just glad that // most often // I agree with myself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I mean … in the year of our Armageddon 2026 labeling ketchup as “worst” is kinda Op but okay

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🫶🏾 to get to complete the final edit here, #aroma2026, beneath #JuneJordan’s portrait (by #WhitfieldLovell) feels all the way right.

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

✍🏽 In edit. ☀️In sunshine. 📖 The 30th anniversary reprint of _June Jordan’s #POETRYFOETHEPEOPLE_ comes to *you* this summer! What a gift of a lift it’s been … 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Palermo! Also — this little spot on the Sicilian block playing Sitting on the Dock of the Bay as if to prove my argument that Black American music is the only music the whole world can’t quit ever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Some whole other non-Sicilian buskers also been playing Black music all day…)

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Back in Roma I *had* to make my signature Ragù with non-toxic local ingrediente 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It’s really going to down hall! Let’s gooooooo!!! Goodbye snows!

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Yeah I’m DAT cray muhfuh flyin international out of JFK IN A SNOWSTORM. My flight is leaving half an hour EARLY (never heard of such a thing) because we are LEAVING dammit. And I’m in this airport mumbling “Dis N-**a” at my overstuffed carryon and backpack cuz they keep falling over. But I’m going!

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I just … I don’t post about things but I kinda have to maybe say that I just had the sweetest most loving Valentines Day Weekend of my life… ever… and I’m a grown-ass bish so … yeah what? Wow.

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Ooooooooo!!! This tease can not STAND!!!!

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Long a widely used idiom, “Crossing the Rubicon” refers to a stepped-over line, a passed point of no return, when one has taken the final step into dangerous waters from which there is no retreat; once that line has been crossed, nothing will ever be the same. — Samiya

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Oooooo ... more good poetry things!! mailchi.mp/ccpoets/spri...

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Our most important journeys often take us through vistas that we hadn’t, couldn’t, even imagine when we took our first steps. Leaning into adventure forces us to embrace uncertainty. — Samiya www.slowdownshow.org

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Meanwhile, February at the cribbo … #bhm

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Immigration built the United States (for better/for worse) & is again on trial here + across the West. The crackdowns are beyond devastating, yet the potential for complete societal collapse seems unable to trigger our better natures to see each other’s humanity. — Samiya slowdownshow.org

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Ok so like now that I’Z FREE(!!!) I can share that omg I have spent this WHOLE DAY in #JuryDuty purgatory. **0/10: do NOT recommend.** I have avoided this circle of hell for all the decades of my life and whew…they almost got me. Thank you ARoma for saving me again! Good luck in 4 years. PSYCH!

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Today’s poem reminds me of the power of poetry to comment, to respond, to shed light and offer us space to form our own impressions of what the facts may mean. To decide, then, with the knowledge provided by our very own bodies, what we mean to do about it. — Samiya www.slowdownshow.org

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I just took a pic of a pic of a pic and it still just looks like me now but with a cowrie shell 😂😂😂😂

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This MF just told a whole group of our colonist allies, while standing in SWITZERLAND (the German speaking side),that “Without us right now, you would all be speaking German…” like … like … 😮‍💨🤡🫠

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

me out here #pewpewing my way through the rest of 2025 with my kittygurls like BACK TF UP!!

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I made this delish-as-hell homemade pie and we ate well but listennnnnnn that boiga is calling like a siren

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

G'head #Reedies -- let 'em know! Students at @Reed.edu make it plain. But just in case, don't forget to read the rest of the poem. Trust & Believe. ✊🏾

Students at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, hang a large banner quoting Martin Niemöller's poem "First they came" stating: "First they came for immigrants--and--I spoke up because I read the rest of the f*cking poem"

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

What an honor and a joy it’s been to be the final Resident #Poet for #ThePoetryClinic this year! Check back ea. week for the next letters&responses! • How does one embrace sober living? “When does the boredom end?” I respond with a reframe: “Boredom is the most reliable catalyst for innovation.”

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Woke up today to a full on winter wonderland here in #nyc 😲

Looking down at Central Park through the snow

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