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Evie Shockley

@seminewblack.bsky.social
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poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will linktr.ee/evieshockley

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 13/04/2024
💔💔💔 rest in peace, Faith Ringgold
photo of quilt art, Jazz Stories: Mama Can Sing, Papa Can Blow #1: Somebody Stole My Broken Heart, 2004. a woman in a yellow dress sings before a band consisting of a horn player, a bass player, and a drummer.
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Maria T 🌹⛸🎸🍕🏄🏼‍♀️✨ @thisismari.at · 08/04/2024
Oh you thought the earthquake before the eclipse was wild? Mount Etna in Sicily is sending out volcanic Spaghetti-O's right now: apnews.com/video/italy-...
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Mount Etna blows spectacular smoke rings into the sky
Mount Etna in Sicily, the largest active volcano in Europe, has been blowing spectacular “smoke rings” into the sky since Wednesday.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
They're talking about water being diverted from crops to data centers.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
Octavia E. Butler predicted that we will soon have ballots that only have the candidates' photos because most won't be able to read and people will decide based on who looks "presidential" and tells them what they want to hear.
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UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
In just three weeks we're hosting--online--poet & scholar @seminewblack.bsky.social who will explore how Black #poetry and other artwork 1990-2015 engaged/interrogated the period's dominant ideology of "colorblindness," looking especially at intersections of text & image. Free: register today!
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Evie Shockley: "Black Graphics: Slavery and Black Women's Bodies (of Work)"
The Rutgers professor and poet will share her current research.
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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
May His Memory be for a Revolution
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/03/2024
Quite the #Oscars image by @vpsreports.bsky.social
A phalanx of LAPD riot police officers with batons drawn stands on the Oscars red carpet
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
This is a relief: researchers who test the tests confirm that COVID rapid home tests are sensitive to new variants. Please test whenever you feel even slightly sick or have been exposed to COVID. You can have it and transmit it without symptoms 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...
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COVID Rapid Tests Reliably Detect New Variants
Researchers who “test the tests” say that COVID rapid tests have kept up with new variants
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NPR @npr.org · 04/03/2024
It will be sold online and in the family planning aisle of drugstores, convenience stores and supermarkets later this month, the manufacturer announced Monday.
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First over-the-counter birth control pill heads to stores
Women will be able to buy the pill without a prescription later this month at pharmacies and grocery stores.
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David Anaxagoras @davidanaxagoras.com · 03/03/2024
We never ask this about bombs.
WaPo Headline: Dropping aid from planes is expensive and inefficient. Why do it?
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 03/03/2024
That's so weird I must have missed the nyt breaking news alert
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Picture below is of bird straddling two flowers with both legs apart like Van Damme.
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
What does it mean to unmake history? To sound a future one. Don't miss today's episode with Canisia Lubrin, about her 59 stories that, alongside Torkwase Dyson, with pen and with brush, unmake the 59 Black codes of King Louis XIV. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/cani...
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Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir - Tin House
Award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin talks about her debut fiction, Code Noir. The fifty-nine stories in this collection are each prefaced by one of Louis XIV’s fifty-nine “Black codes,” the rules of con...
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
It’s truly amazing to see this particular comic traveling around social media uncredited and apparently edited. Original from FB on left. Artist: eat the rich comedian / FB eattherich_comic / IG
Four panel comic 
Person 1: I created something
(small box labeled art)
Person 2: you'll never make a living from art
Person 2: can i have it for free?
@ eattherichcomicFour panel comic 
Person 1: I created something
(small box labeled book)
Person 2: you'll never make a living from art
Person 2: can i have it for free?
@ eattherichcomic
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Being a Christian and a capitalist requires way more theological creativity than being Christian and LGBTQ-affirming IMO
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Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
The February 2024 Lights & Shadows Poetry Book Giveaway is accepting entries through the end of the month. Read the rules and enter at the link to win a free poetry book of your choice for you and a friend! www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/lights-shado...
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
What other forms of knowledge are too expensive to maintain, Duke U? Asking for a society.
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 12/02/2024
Ouch damn
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Nicollette @literaryjones.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Library Folks: A new article co-written by me dropped today - The Library is NOT for Everyone (Yet) Disability, Accommodations, and Working in Libraries. I hope you will take a look 👀 crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Happy Lunar New Year! 🐉
Golden dragon looking radiant, framed by a golden-red sun.
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Hey, folks! The deadline for applications to REDI has been extended to Feb. 21. If you just needed a bit more time—you got it! Send us your interested / curious students! ✌🏽
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
In case you missed it, there’s still time to read my amicus brief in Trump v Anderson: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Whatcha doing Saturday evening, NYC? Getting your Black poetry fix, you say? Right on. Come celebrate a fabulous new anthology: This Is the Honey! I hope to see you there! www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco...
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
NEWS: The @chicagotribune newsroom is walking out on strike tomorrow alongside Alden Tribune journalists across the country in our fight for a fair contract. DON’T read the paper or website tomorrow. We will rally in the morning at 560 W Grand Avenue. This is our open letter.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
✊ Don't cross the line!
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Literature Profs: do you have a strong student of a background underrepresented in the professoriate whom you’d like to encourage to consider pursuing a Ph.D. in literary studies? Or are *you* that student? The REDI program is accepting applications now! english.rutgers.edu/redi-home.html
Colorful flyer advertising the Rutgers English Diversity Institute (REDI)
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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Truest board I’ve ever written. - Michael
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Absolutely unhinged behavior. Bullying a minor should have already disqualified them from this job, this is just the cherry on top.
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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
CSU Faculty strike - first ever - 1 day in. Got new terms! Notified 10mins ago of the terms. - WOAH! Also, our students are so incredible....
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
I’m so excited to chat with Courtney about her work! Don’t you want to know the stories behind this amazing photo?! 🔥
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 29/12/2023
The director of Harvard Hillel for 18 years, from 1993-2010, Bernie Steinberg, says "enough" — For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
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For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism | Opinion | The Harvard Crims...
For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Along w/ @rosecasey.bsky.social & @jessiew.bsky.social, I’m honored that our open letter was the second most read piece @bostonreview.bsky.social in 2023. We’re grateful for everyone’s support. I hope you’ll support BR. They don’t have a paywall: that’s why why our letter could be so widely read.
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Donations - Boston Review
Make a tax-deductible donation to support our commitment to collective reasoning and imagination of a more just world.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
My Reading Year. (My last Guardian Books cartoon of 2023)
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Title: My year-end reading statistics.
Five diagrams detailing the reading habits of a rather lazy reader.
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Steph @stephy.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
COVID-19 levels high ahead of holiday travel season www.axios.com/2023/12/19/c...
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COVID-19 levels high ahead of holiday travel season
As of early December, 22 states had "very high" COVID-19 wastewater levels.
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
I needed Jericho Brown’s poem today. This world is taking taking taking, but here’s a gift. 💜✊🏽🙏🏽 poets.org/poem/lenoir
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Lenoir
My uncles are the tallest men I know.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
“I feel crazy having to point this out, but: if you say that you want Israel to stop killing so many civilians, and at the same time you're sending Israel weapons you know are being used to kill civilians, you don't actually want Israel to stop.”
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Anyone Who Says the U.S. Is Trying to End the Slaughter In Gaza Is Lying to You
If you're sending Israel the weapons it's using to massacre people, you're not really trying to stop the massacres. Obviously.
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 26/11/2023
Happening now! Support @jvp.bsky.social if you can.
Thousands blocking the Manhattan Bridge to call for a permanent ceasefire in GazaHundreds of members of Jewish Voices for Peace in front of a banner that says “The Whole World is Watching: Lasting Ceasefire.”
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Marilyn Chin’s new work is simply stunning. She has found & perfected her form in these cross-cultural couplets & quatrains that she has been writing in more & more. Wow!! 😍👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 poems.com/poem/i-am-yo...
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"I Am Your Transient Guest" by Marilyn Chin
from "Sage: Poems" published by W. W. Norton & Company
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans
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US closer to using AI-drones that can autonomously decide to kill humans
The use of drones capable of deciding whether to kill humans is alarming critics.
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Where are the best places to channel donations in advance of & during the ceasefire—or in general? Please share suggestions & RT. 🙏🏽✌🏽
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