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Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Anyway, at the risk of sounding like a weirdo who is too online--

I'm really grateful to y'all, Bluesky. We are strangers-- but not, as many of you have supported me through the WaPo firing, my fighting journeys, through my father's passing--

--and basically rebuilding my life at nearly 40.

Natasha Bishop in conversation with Kristina Forest.

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Let me page Christy Sarah

An image of the book cover for Country Place by Ann Petry. A silhouette of a woman in a dress is on the right side, all text is on the left. Her dress is more of an outline of a dress, it has cherries and ruffles. She's also wearing a big sunhat.

I finished Country Place by Ann Petry and oh my lanta this was mess and drama allll the way through!! 👀 I kept taking pauses to run to my husband and give him an update at what wild thing happened/was revealed. And the narrator?? Oh he can catch these hands 👊🏾.
#BlackBookSky

Me and the Great actor Dominic Hoffman ( A Different World ) at the LA Times Book Festival

Are you all watching the new season on Iyanu on HBO Max? I am!

Support Black anime!

art nouveau Dahlia illustration

Dahlia Sinclair: Valor Bard

#illustration #dnd #dungeonsanddragons

Fighting for Texas with Gina Hinojosa YouTube video by Angry MaleVet

Make Texas cooler with @ginafortexas.bsky.social #Texas #news

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When you’re not raised to expect to need Black & brown people you end up treating us like too many lefties do-

‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.

Apparently a record number of scientists are getting into politics, which is very good, but my questions are: How many of them are good at science communication, and how many of them are highly trained in the social implications of their fields? Because those are all different kinds of training.

Love Is A Contact Sport by Frederick Smith (ARC Request Form and Events Planning Request) This request form is for an Advanced Reader Copy of LOVE IS A CONTACT SPORT, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM romance novel by Frederick Smith, releasing June 16, 2026 on Bold Stroke...

ARCs go out in a few weeks. Sign up: bit.ly/ARCSandEvents

Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, Contemporary MM Romance novel is out June 16, 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social
✍🏾📚💕🌈🎓🏀 #Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #MMRomance #BlackBookSky #BookSky

“Cloud bob” is some real artisanal, quotidian racist sexism, I tell you what.

Thirteen years ago, I had my first book book signing.

Fun was had, lessons were learned, books might have been sold.

Photo of the Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emiezi hardcover special edition, showing three characters, one on the back of the book with a sword, and two on the front engaged in an embrace

I took the jacket off of this book expecting it to just be a plain cover, and instead got this. Okay now I'm really excited to read this. I've never read this author before, so let's see how it goes. #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Pink poster announcing the April Book Clubs at Grand Gesture Books in Portland, Oregon. Text includes “Queerly Beloved. April 16 at 6pm.” Poster includes a book cover of One and Dine by Frederick Smith, which features two professionally dressed Black men walking along a waterfront with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. They are gazing into each other’s eyes.”

If you’re in Portland, OR., join @grandgesturebooks.bsky.social on Thursday, 4/16/26 at 6pm, for a book club discussion of my novel One and Done on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social.

RSVP: bit.ly/4vmMAkI

📚💕🌈 #Romancelandia #MMRomance #RomanceBookSky #BlackBookSky #GrandGestureBooks

Only a few days to Book Con!

The books I’m getting signed:

The Good House, The Wishing Pool, and Ghost Summer all by Tananarive Due

Black Sun, Fevered Star, and Mirrored Heavens all by Rebecca Roanhorse

#BookSky #BlackBookSky #BookCon

The Art of Loving You by Natasha Bishop

Sorry to everything I was reading because I just got this pre-order in the mail today and I'm about to read it now. Gotta love book mail! #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Starting Big Girl Blitz by Danielle Allen. Hopefully this ends my reading slump #blackbooksky

imagine something like this is also true in Hungary. guess we'll see

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i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

Tisza now at 132 seats, one seat away from supermajority.

historic rejection of JD Vance

Great pick up!!!

The cover of the book Black In Blues by the incomparable author Imani Perry.

Just finished and 10/10, this had me getting misty eyed multiple times. Maybe it's the Pisces in me, or the writing was that damn moving! The dismount in the final three chapters is flawless. Black Folk, if you read anything this year make it this. #BlackBookSky bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

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Superior world building in the first chapter! Immediately got me excited for more!

photo of my left hand holding the book “dear ijeawele, or a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions” by chimamanda ngozi adichie. the cover is purple watercolor.

i flew through this one 😌 lovely read #BlackBookSky

Women Who Dare Series | Historical Romance | Author Beverly Jenkins Women Who Dare is an African American historical romance book series set in the aftermath of the Civil War and written by author Beverly Jenkins.

Just finished reading To Catch A Raven, the third & final novel in the 'Women Who Dare' series by Beverly Jenkins (@authormsbev.bsky.social). I enjoyed the novel and series. Highly recommended! ✍🏾📚💕

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#Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #BlackBookSky #BeverlyJenkins