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Sherisa de Groot

@sherisa.bsky.social
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Founder of Raising Mothers (@raisingmothers.bsky.social) & Literary Liberation (@literaryliberation.bsky.social). Pens A Home Within Myself on Substack.Very Black. Very strong.

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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hi friends! Sign up for @blkpansy.bsky.social’s class!
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Spoke to @blkpansy.bsky.social ab the myth of writer’s block & ways to get around the notion of it, even if it means you have to rest, or take in other art. June 13: “Writer’s Block Isn’t Real.” There’s a flash sale of 25% off this week! Sign up: literaryliberation.substack.com/p/writers-bl...
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Writers! Our spring workshops are live! Click through to read ab each & sign up! Discounts available. See them all here: literaryliberation.substack.com/p/announcing...
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🎉 ANNOUNCING SPRING 2026 WORKSHOPS AT LIT LIB!
Workshops are LIVE! Write with Literary Liberation this Spring.
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
FEB 28: Writing Alongside Stars with Theresa Tran @astrapoetica.bsky.social learn more & enroll: literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
FEB 21: Character Driven with Katherin Garland @kegarland.bsky.social learn more & enroll: literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
JAN 31: StoryJustice: Social Justice Storytelling with Tayler Simon learn more & enroll: literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
JAN 24: Fictionalizing Family Archives with Noelani Piters. learn more & enroll: literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We just announced our winter workshops! Won’t you join us?
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hope to see you in class!
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our fall workshops at @literaryliberation.bsky.social are up and ready for you to scoop up! Grab your seat! And share them with a friend or two.
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I plan on making a tiny bit of effort here. Clap for me. If you need something to read, try these: Sherisa.substack.com, literaryliberation.substack.com, and raisingmothers.substack.com
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A Home Within Myself | Sherisa de Groot | Substack
How to find and love the home within yourself. Essays & conversations on love, parenthood, identity, culture, midlife, relationships and Blackness from a first-generation American elder millennial imm...
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Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“My writing, once a liberatory microphone, was now a stick of dynamite, waiting to blow up my case at the touch of a flame.” - at Memoir Land, Iris (Yi Youn) Kim with the first in a collaborative series with @sherisa.bsky.social's Literary Liberation. memoirland.substack.com/p/they-tried...
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They Tried to Take My Words. I Fought to Get Them Back.
This essay is the first in a collaborative series between Memoir Land and Literary Liberation, Sherisa De Groot's excellent publication, featuring stories about writing as a transformative and liberat...
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Our submissions are wide open this year at Raising Mothers! Send us your best work! Read our guidelines first.
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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Attention parent-writers: MVICW (@mvicw) is offering 2 fully funded fellowships to the 2025 Martha's Vineyard Summer Writers Conference. Learn more and apply at: mvicw.com
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HOME | Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (MVICW) is a nonprofit organization founded on the belief that writers flourish best in communities based in compassion rather than competition. Each year we host a conference where writers from around the country meet other authors & develop their craft.
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Jan 12!! Register now. It’s pay what you can
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We have a few workshops still happening this month at @literaryliberation.bsky.social & would love help spreading the word! literaryliberation.substack.com/p/workshops-... with special attention to AFTER BIRTH (Jan 12), UNDER YOUR SKIN (Jan 14), and DO IT ANYWAY (Jan 18)
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Workshop Calendar
Upcoming Workshops & Courses | JAN 2025
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Who are these random men??
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Priscilla Thomas reminds us that living in a world that constantly fragments our physical experience, writers often overlook the profound creative potential residing within their bodies. Read “The Embodied Writer” & register for UNDER YOUR SKIN. literaryliberation.substack.com/p/under-your...
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Read “Staying Present: Moving Beyond Good/Bad to the Heart of the Story” by Sarah Dalton & then sign up for her workshop, AFTER BIRTH: POSTPARTUM NARRATIVES on Jan 12. literaryliberation.substack.com/p/after-birt... Special note: this workshop is pay-what-you-can
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My internal clock feels out of it. I’m no longer hungry in the mornings (after a lifetime being the opposite) but this week so far I’m ravenous and I’m ready for bed by 3p. No second or third winds. Is this a new phase of #perimenopause?
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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Be sure to follow @raisingmothers.bsky.social, a literary platform founded by @sherisa.bsky.social that amplifies the global majority and advocates for social justice and equity. raisingmothers.substack.com
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Raising Mothers | Sherisa | Substack
Writing ourselves back to the center. Celebrating & centering the parenting and personal narratives of the Global Majority since 2015. Click to read Raising Mothers, by Sherisa, a Substack publication...
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This season, gift yourself something real: your own creative potential. Invest in YOU. You are the gift.Your voice is the present.Your stories are waiting. No discount code required. Just your commitment. Your words can’t wait. Register for our workshops at literaryliberation.net
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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"America has been unmasked." Tiffanie Drayton, author of Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream, discusses abuse, racism, & the family court system w @ajfields.bsky.social @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Brianna Avenia-Tapper. literarymama.substack.com/p/tiffanie-d...
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Tiffanie Drayton: Demon slayer, here we come
Tiffanie Drayton sits in the Literary Mama guest chair with Amanda Fields, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Brianna Avenia-Tapper to discuss her memoir Black American Refugee, abusive relationships, racism a...
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
They’re LIVE! In this 3 hour, online workshop with Leonora Simonovis, explore how mindful breathing and art can deepen your writing practice with greater clarity and ease. Learn more about this and all of our January workshops at the link in bio or literaryliberation.substack.com/p/its-all-in...
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It's All in The Breath: Embodying Your Creative Self | 3 hours
A 1-day workshop led by Leonora Simonovis
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So I’m going to talk about perimenopause a lot bc, well, life. I was asthmatic as a child for a brief time until around 12 or so. Now in my 40s I’m suddenly suffering again. I’ve been having attacks all weekend. What is this fresh hell? I’m not someone who curses new stages of life but come on!
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Raising Mothers @raisingmothers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We are Raising Mothers. A literary platform exclusively centering the parenting and personal narratives of the Global majority since 2015. We are writing ourselves back to the center. Won’t you join us? raisingmothers.substack.com
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My latest for A Home Within Myself. I have always been relationship obsessed, but not in a romantic sense. I’m tired of existing in spaces where I can’t be me because of circumstance. sherisa.substack.com/p/a-world-fu...
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a world full of blinders
Too many people make a transcontinental move to 'escape' the dangers of America, only to ignore everything in the land they now call home.
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
An introduction. I’m the founder of @raisingmothers.bsky.social & @literaryliberation.bsky.social. A mother. A writer. An editor. A first gen Black American immigrant living in Europe. Never call me an expat. I’m always liberation minded. Very Jamaican. Veg/vegan 19 yrs. Very Aquarius. Hi.
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Welcome to the mutha of all updates! FIVE new workshops for your writerly selves all happening JAN 2025, a new FAQ page & more! This was a busy ass week for us & it’s all paid off. Get into it & tell a friend! Paid subscribers can register now; doors open Nov 21 to gen pub. Literaryliberation.net
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Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are Literary Liberation. A community for writers, artists & activists across multiple creative concentrations working towards our collective liberation. Join us as monthly ($12), annual ($120), or founding ($165) subscribers. Membership increases Jan 1. literaryliberation.net
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Subscribe to Literary Liberation
A community of artists, writers, and activists across multiple creative concentrations working towards our collective liberation. Stay radical. Click to read Literary Liberation, by Sherisa, a Substac...
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Sherisa de Groot @sherisa.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Okay. How am I gonna find everyone. Putting out the bat signal for Black women writers and the readers who love them
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