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Tamara Winfrey-Harris

@twinfreyharris.bsky.social
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Writer: NYT, Atlantic, more. Author: The Sisters Are Alright, Dear Black Girl, and a Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free. Yogi. Reiki master. Lover of humanity. Femme stan. TamaraWinfreyHarris.com

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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Snag a copy at the oldest feminist bookstore in the South: Charis Books & More www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9781523...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/02/2025
President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.
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As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces
President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You know that I’ve been working to assemble my list of trusted media sources. Perhaps Wired is one.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Morning commute song. open.spotify.com/track/3Rou7K...
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Doesn’t Do Me Any Good
Stephen Sanchez · Angel Face · Song · 2023
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
What media outlets and journalists do you consider reliable sources of information?
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Morning commute music open.spotify.com/track/7whZdZ...
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Live For You - A COLORS SHOW
Thee Sacred Souls · Live For You - A COLORS SHOW · Song · 2025
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Morning commute song open.spotify.com/track/1qRA5B...
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For What It's Worth
Buffalo Springfield · Buffalo Springfield · Song · 1966
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I just discovered commonplace books and I am obsessed. Anyone else do this? www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/m...
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Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself (Published 2022)
I keep a journal of quotes, lines from songs, poetry. Nothing is my original thought — but all of it struck me as meaningful when I wrote it down.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I wrote this eight years ago. Being an ally requires action. Many folks who claim to support marginalized people emphatically do not. www.thecut.com/2017/01/the-...
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The Real Work of Being an Ally
Supporting the people who need it most.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Do not ask that women of color choose one of our identities to fight for first. Freedom is wholeness. We get to be our whole selves. Our whole selves deserve to be free.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I attended a performance by poet Tasha Jones. At a point in the show she stands in front of a screen baring the names of 100 murdered Black people. Trayvon. Tamir. Breana. The Emmanuel nine. It is a gut punch realizing how quickly America grew bored of pretending to care about racism or Black death.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
mashable.com/article/quit...
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I'm quitting Instagram. You should too.
Mark Zuckerberg's horrible changes for Instagram — and Facebook — have become untenable, writes Lennon Torres.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Morning commute song: open.spotify.com/track/1cON9a...
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Liz
Remi Wolf · Juno (Deluxe) · Song · 2022
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I ditched X and TikTok. My gut tells me to divest from Meta, too. How do I keep connections with amazing people that I cannot interact with in person regularly? As an author, what do book promotion and a writer's platform look like w/out supportive mainstream media and post-Twitter, IG, and TikTok?
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Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
On this dark day it's crucial to follow #feminist journalists, activists, scholars, artists, and comics who help us understand our structural problems and offer solutions--roadmaps toward freedom, justice. @veronicaeye.bsky.social & I have you covered! We've worked with or vouch for all #writers 👇
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Access the State of Women in Central Indiana Report to learn more about the vulnerability of Hoosier women. www.womensfund.org/report/
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I am not shocked, just angry that we still have to deal with this. www.inc.com/jessica-stil...
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Researchers Counted All the Biases Women Face at Work. You’re Going to Be Shocked by the Number
Researchers rounded up all the irrelevant factors, double standards, and annoying biases women face at work. It’s a lot.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Another gift guide! Cool to see my latest book in the IBJ Executive Holiday Gift Guide. Same offer as yesterday: If you snag a copy of any of my books for your friends in the C-Suite, I’m happy to sign them (local) or mail a bookplate. www.ibj.com/executive-gi...
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I am so honored to be included in the Mirror Indy 2024 Gift Guide. If you decide to grab a copy of A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free as a gift, I'm happy to sign it (locally) or send you a bookplate. mirrorindy.org/holiday-gift...
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Mirror Indy’s 2024 holiday gift guide
Here are 34 gift ideas for your holiday shopping list that check the boxes for local, useful and fun.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I'm terrified by the rise of organized disinformation. Increasingly, it feels like most public communication is less about informing and engaging and more about inciting, inflaming and manipulating. What does it look like to reject this? What do we avoid? What do we support?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/11/2024
Excited to hold my contributor copy in my hands!! Many thanks to Rebecca Carroll for inviting me to contribute an introduction to Nikki Giovanni’s work and connect it with 🔭 Grab a copy from @haymarketbooks.org: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2445-i... 📚💙
Nikki Giovanni
By Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The Martian Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and she has spent a lifetime instructing her people on how to return to our place amongst the stars, reminding us that this is a journey we know. It is in the births and deaths of stars that most of what we are is made. From carbon for us carbon-based life-forms, to the uranium that troubles us politically: it is all produced in the stars and the spectacular endings of stars more massive than our sun, supernovae. The cosmos is part of the Black aesthetic that Nikki Giovanni contributed to the fabric of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni speaks for the universe when she says in "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why), "My bowels deliver uranium." And over and over in her work and her interviews, Giovanni has riffed on what the journey to Mars might entail, how the Middle Passage can teach us about completing it, how the visions and dreams of Black women and caregivers can teach us why we should bother in the first place.
As a Black woman theoretical particle cosmologist and astrophysicist who also likes to write, I delight in the North eed that the body of this extraordinary poet's work has offered me. There are of this extrack loving reasons to study and go
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is why God created journalists. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
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Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco
Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My latest book is a practical guide for Black women to unshackle their authentic selves from expectations and stereotypes embedded in American culture. Through feminist analysis, sister wit and yogic philosophy, the book offers guidance on how to choose liberation and sustain freedom.
Green and purple book cover featuring a Black woman with arms raised in exaltation. Book endorsements from writers, yogis and educators.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I followed this pack though these people are wrong about the Oxford comma, which I am adamantly against. I just miss the good old days of social media when I could have genteel skirmishes over punctuation with other writers vs. soul-crushing fights about my bodily autonomy with bad-faith trolls.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Once again, people are making political pronouncements about the Midwest as if Black folks don't live here. We do. www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/o...
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Opinion | Stop Pretending Black Midwesterners Don’t Exist (Gift Article)
So much Trump-era political and cultural analysis completely ignores us.
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I could not be prouder of my girl, Lisa Butler—for her brilliance, her creativity and her unflinching advocacy for Black women and her community. You need to show up for this! Congratulations, my friend, on your directorial debut!
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Between my second book in 2021 and my third, released this summer, Twitter went all to hell. Definitely not the place to talk about Black women (or any marginalized group) and freedom. I'll be dropping some stuff here. Get A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free at your fave bookstore.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Taking @sjjphd.bsky.social challenge…
Civil rights icon Gloria Richardson pushes away the gun of a National Guardsman
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Somebody, please resuscitate The Fourth Estate. According to this Pew study, a fifth of Americans especially those under 30, are regularly getting their news from conservative male influencers, who are not connected with mainstream news providers, on X.
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Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Love this! I'd also suggest a few OG feminist, anti-racist bloggers: @veronicaeye.bsky.social @profcrunk.bsky.social @beyerstein.bsky.social @aboynamedart.bsky.social @tamuralomax.bsky.social @twinfreyharris.bsky.social ...and I created WIMN's Voices, the first feminist media criticism group blog)
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
When @jennpozner.bsky.social talks about reality TV, folks need to listen. Reality Bites Back is the best book to understand the manipulation and toxic nature of "guilty pleasure TV."
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Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Kudos to the Jeannette Rankin Foundation for making pathways for women and non-binary students over age 35 to gain post-secondary education. Barrier buster (non-tuition) dollars are hard to come by. Apply! rankinfoundation.org/national-sch...
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Jeannette Rankin National Scholar Grant - Jeannette Rankin
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