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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Started as a little study and became another one of the 'Secret Society of Unpractical Headpieces in Space' series (that still does not exist) 🪐

Illustration by Eleonor Piteira showing a black woman with an elaborate golden headpiece. Her hair is curly and long, she's wearing a dress, and gold and blue make up on her eyes. She is framed by a circle and behind her there is a space view with a star and small planets.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A DIFFERENT WORLD' SPENDS TOO MUCH TIME MINING NOSTALGIA: Don't blame critics for identifying flaws. It's part of the job. By @soraya.press

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'A Different World' spends too much time mining nostalgia

Don't blame critics for identifying flaws. It's part of the job.

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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Let's talk $$$ We spent 3x on the convention this year. Last year's convention raised more than $17k. This year? We're sitting at $13.5k. That sounds like a lot, but friends, we TRIPLED how much we spent on the event. And we've made a LOT less. Help us out? flights-of-foundry.org/donate/

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Next weekend I'll be on two panels for @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social: Oh That Stings: Dealing with Rejection and Criticism Sept. 18, 3 PM PST Kiss First, Save the World Later: Balancing Romance and Plot Sept. 20, 12 PM PST Hear me talk about two things close to my heart: self-loathing and kissing

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Becca Gomez Farrell @becca.gomezfarrell.com · 03/09/2026

Critique partners often give feedback suggesting more explanation/world-building is needed as well. It is a natural instinct to do so when trying to offer help. But the well-seasoned author should learn when to ignore that and trust the story and the readers.

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

I think I made this point during the Flights of Foundry presentation I gave last year: Editors are just not very good at explaining things sometimes.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/09/2026

I sincerely believe that algorithms calibrated toward outrage/anger have created an atmosphere where shallow/lazy readings of media are rewards with actual money, and the exhausting discourse cycles over people not understanding subtext is getting into the heads of writers

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The misguided need to identify with the protagonist missed half the point of reading. We know this because marginalized people read in spite of our underrepresentation and/or misrepresentation in all forms of media. Not because we're Virtue signaling, because there's extractable value in

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20/08/2026

something that irritates me is the implicit assumption that artisinal local news will be left-wing (or, at the very least, not right wing) when even a cursory examination of US history shows that local journalism has been a bastion of hate for basically our entire existence

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Team Two Dogs @lchanwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We need voices like @khoreo.bsky.social in the world, and their editorial team is also top notch, friendly and professional. Do have a look and see if you can help out!

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 03/07/2026

At some point we're going to have to reckon with the fact that part of learning, part of educating yourself, is figuring out how to deal with the friction between yourself and the world at the limits of your knowledge in ways other than retreating from it or making it someone else's problem.

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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 20/06/2026

I think this requires us to know whether the audience is engaging with the art in good faith. Which I'm not sure is a safe bet when anti-intellectualism is so rampant.

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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"To Stand, You Must Be Rooted" is a thorny story about Black land ownership, identity, and place by Verdell Walker which is free to read now from Reckoning X: reckoning.press/to-stand-you...

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To Stand, You Must be Rooted | Reckoning

“What should we bring Pawpaw for dinner?” I asked Mama. Her bronze urn rested in the passenger’s seat, secured by the seat belt. Her ghost sat in the backseat, wearing the green skirt suit I’d buried ...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A lot of y’all need diaries.

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Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Congratulations and welcome to the Clarion West Six-Week Workshop Class of 2026! On behalf of the staff, board, and alumni we look forward to celebrating the wild and amazing worlds you create this summer.

Clarion West News: Clarion West Announces Six-Week Workshop Class of 2026:
MB Carvalho, Pernambuco, Brazil

Yasmeen Fahmy, New Jersey, USA

Shawn Frazier, New York City (Harlem)

Adan Jimenez, California, USA (originally from)/Singapore (now residing)

Laura Mei-Yook Jue, CA, USA

Louis Li, Taipei, Taiwan

Sheila García Mazari, Anishinaabek/Michigan, USA

Nailah Moon, Pu’namoqwati’jk, Mi’kma’ki

Nathan Alexander Moore, Louisville, KY, USA

Surya Ramkumar, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Susanne Salehi, Georgia, USA

Vijayalaxmi Samal, New, Delhi, India

Sydnee Thompson, Michigan, USA

Avani Vaghela, San Francisco, California

Verdell Walker, Georgia, USA

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 28/04/2026

I'm excited to announce that I've been selected for Clarion West's Six-Week Workshop this summer! 🎉

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 17/04/2026

There's a quote in here from my Buzzfeed essay that says as much, but I really do blame mass media for this the most. Why are you having guests on your talk show explaining "Gen Z slang" when a 5 sec Google search would immediately call their "expertise" into question. DO YOUR DAMN JOB.

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

Forged in FIYAH anthology cover. Featuring two beings forging a magical object with a vivid starscape in the background.

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026

So, to offer more context: When you click "Expert Review" in Grammarly, it feeds your content through an AI and chooses experts based on the subject matter. There's also a prompt at the bottom of the tab that allows you to add additional experts based on specific topics.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 06/03/2026

This week, the Transgender Healthcare page added 7 new items to the timeline. These include multiple cancellations of gender-affirming care and new policies from the DOJ mandating the forced detransition of inmates. Grim stuff.

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Transgender Healthcare: Timeline — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/03/2026

It does not matter what the character limit is because I will always run up against it

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 26/02/2026

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share. Who's with me? (I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

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Trans Continental Pipeline

Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 19/02/2026

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Keep Minnesota Housed!
Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction.
Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds!
#keepMNhoused

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12/02/2026

Let's make it clearer. This week's in-depth briefing from our volunteer collective at @unbreaking.org is on extraordinary acts of courage and decency by ordinary people fighting back against inhumane attacks on their neighbors. unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026

In this shitty moment I'm grateful to @karenattiah.bsky.social and @resistanceschool.bsky.social for introducing me to "News for All the People," which calls out US media's white supremacist origins and the ways POC have always resisted it. It's essential reading. bookshop.org/p/books/news...

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News For All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There is no way, in no world, that people stop telling stories about ourselves. Journalism as we all know it is dead and dying but I’m really hopeful we can rebuild something that is truly equitable, illuminating, and clear-eyed about the world that we actually live in.

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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Without a major investment in publicly funded media or VERY well-funded worker-run collectives, we are all on a sinking ship. The problem is convincing the public that they're going down, too.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I really hate that media layoffs have been happening for the last three years, including my own, and most of the people responsible for the mismanagement won't experience any negative consequences, especially for decimating the number of people of color in so many American newsrooms.

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 03/02/2026

I've had the pleasure of working with Unbreaking for almost six (!) months now as part of their comms team. In light of...everything...I wrote this essay to unpack how it feels to ID as a "lowercase-j" journalist while Journalism courts fascism.

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 03/02/2026

Linkedin is not a place of honor

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026

lupita is the kind of fine that makes you go, "how dare you"

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Who among us would not launch a thousand ships for the sake of Lupita Nyongo

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Don Lemon has been released without bail, and his next court appearance is Feb. 9

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

So it seems like I need to finally watch Schitt's Creek this weekend, is what y'all are saying

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

all I will say about this current news cycle is that severance packages typically have NDAs for a reason. POC journalists have not been doing well for a long, long time

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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’ve see a couple mentions that both Georgia Fort & Don Lemon are independent journalists without the coffers, status, & lawyers of media companies to back them - with no acknowledgment of Black press being *forced en masse* to leave the field or go indie in the last 2 years or so.

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

The important thing to understand about Oakland County, MI, is that it's so racist, a county executive fantasized about turning Detroit into an "Indian reservation" and still kept his job: www.metrotimes.com/news/rip-l-b...

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R.I.P. L. Brooks Patterson, a racist

Oakland County's longstanding executive, L. Brooks Patterson, died at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday from cancer. He was 80. It seems much of the local media...

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Grateful to @hammerandhope.bsky.social for recognizing the importance of Dr. King's work with Chicago gangs. Blackstone Rangers leader Jeff Fort stressed what a good listener King was —and how he saw their potential for community leadership & organization. hammerandhope.org/article/mart...

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The Martin Luther King Jr. We Don’t Know

His work with gang members in Chicago shows how much he valued the part played by young people in the Black freedom struggle.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Oh, this snow is crazy.

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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

Something about the prevalence of sharing these feels like lynching postcards to me. Brutal final moments of someone’s life circulated forever. And in the constant rush to share, sure some is for awareness, but a lot feels like people sharing a spectacle.

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 22/01/2026

This reminds me of an excellent review I read on this movie by Brooke Obie, which has this banger line in it: “A loveless revolutionary is just a terrorist.” blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...

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One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app · 21/01/2026

Every time I log into this website after a long hiatus I recognize why I needed the hiatus in the first place.

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