📆 Mark Your Calendar: Spring Workshops Go Live Next Week Our spring lineup drops Monday, April 27th. Here's a teeny tiny sneak peek 👀

Workshops with Tonia Dixon, Savannah Balmir Bowen, @blkpansy.bsky.social, @myamatteoalexice.bsky.social & Alexandria Valentine.

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This is so cool! The series I wrote this piece for, Here to Complain, published a zine with all the submissions they got about workplace microaggressions as a person of color, and I just got my copy!

Thank you so much @blkpansy.bsky.social, this is incredibly dope.

Yooooo, @jl3001.blacksky.app I'm so glad we were able to do this project together!!! Thank YOU

The Here to Complain print zine is here! Shout out to indie press, Microcosm Publishing

It's official, our digital zine about workplace microaggressions is now coming to print with Microcosm Publishing on March 24, 2026! You can pre-order it now. This has truly been a labor of love, y'all. I'm so hype.

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I "mute" for my own peace; it's absolutely no shade.

Get an editorial consultation for you and your writing friend 😸.

idk who needs to hear this but it is, in fact, time to clean your cell phone.

Right?! Mug’s OUT. And she came out w/a new song very recently too.

Leikeli47 - Soft Serve (Official Video) YouTube video by Leikeli47

What y'all know bout Leikeli47

San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event

"Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show"

This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted

Big New Zealand is back and this time he's in Memphis and is connecting what is happening in Memphis with Maori and Fijian words and concepts. True intercultural exchange here. He sees the Black Southern experience with open eyes and an open heart.

It's a whole community of afrofuturist writers and poets shaking shit up on Substack. Out here literally doing the work of resistance on this platform and creating artist networks. Then here liberals come on some, "but the nazis!" Y'all look foolish.

Free Writing Class Series first installment will be Magical Realism in Memoir, on Monday, February 9 at 6pm CST via Zoom. with Jasper "Jaz" Joyner

So I'm doing free writing classes this year, y'all.

The first one will be called MAGICAL REALISM IN MEMOIR on Monday Feb. 9 at 6pm CST via Zoom. Registration is required and there's limited space. It's going to be very cute and fun (and yes, freeee!). ✨

Registration link: tinyurl.com/4par4w9p

I used to get jobs off LinkedIn and now I just get a ton of spam messages. Is it worth keeping?

Students be asking me if I can tell when they use AI. Girl, YES.

She’s Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth, by Vanisha Gould 12 track album

Destin Conrad's Tiny Desk was so lovely, and truly my favorite part was learning about the phenomenal Vanisha Gould. Like, my god. That voice.
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big day for redacted thoughts

Bit of lemon in the water? I am now luxurious.

👀 hmm??

It's me 🥲. And yes, I will happily edit your memoir!

Jasper holds SG Huerta's "Good Grief" in one hand amid moody purplish lighting.

Y'all, I just finished @sgpoet.bsky.social's chapbook "Good Grief." Wow.

I feel so blessed to be in community with poets and writers who lay their heart out on the page like this. Highly, highly recommend, especially if grief of any kind is something you grapple with -- ko-fi.com/s/398cca6980

😂😂😂😂

Meme of Jackie Christie listing shit mad in bed, from Basketball Wives

I’m bout to analog 2026 so hard. Watching dvds, downloading software (fuck subscriptions), reading tangible books. Might even get me a record player, tf.

One thing I'm gonna do? Respond to that message you sent me in my head.

Poem for the starving artist Money come Like my ideas Money big Like dreams Money stay Like my obsessions Money long Like will My Money steady Like drive Money ready My Money ready Money ready Like me My money ready Like me

'Poem for the starving artist'
From my memoir, PANSY

I keep thinking there is something grazing my neck when really ITS JUST THESE SCALP GROWN BUNDLES CASCADING DOWN THE BYKE.

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. "Floods" is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be.”

Toni Morrison

“It’s more common now that I get on the phone with CEOs and they’re proactively coming to me saying, ‘It sounds like I need a content strategy,’” rather than a typical press relations strategy, Hirsch said. “The AI slop of it all creates so much distrust, and they see that the brands that are winning right now are the ones that are most authentic and human and relatable.”

From the article: “The AI slop of it all creates so much distrust, and they see that the brands that are winning right now are the ones that are most authentic and human and relatable.”

Like...duh. AI cannot be the answer for everything.

Text reads: DoorDash Launches Emergency Food Response As SNAP Funding Cliff Threatens To Impact 40 Million Americans. No one should go hungry—DoorDash launches an emergency food response delivering 1 million free meals through food banks and waiving fees for 300,000 SNAP recipient grocery orders.

“DoorDash Launches Emergency Food Response As SNAP Funding Cliff Threatens To Impact 40 Million Americans”

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Copy reads: 1. Role Overview Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to contract seasoned poets for a creative initiative aimed at enhancing AI’s understanding of poetic structure, literary nuance, and emotional expression. This is a unique opportunity to apply artistic writing to frontier technology in a short-term engagement. 2. Ideal Qualifications 10+ years of experience writing and publishing poetry Strong portfolio with notable literary journal publications, anthologies, or awards Deep understanding of poetic devices, structure, voice, and tone Ability to critically analyze and articulate what distinguishes high-quality poetry Excellent written communication and editorial judgment 3. More About the Opportunity Remote and asynchronous — set your own hours Expected commitment: 20-30 hours/week Project duration: 6-8 weeks, with potential for extension 4. Compensation & Contract Terms $100-150/hour Paid weekly via Stripe Connect Freelancers will be classified as independent contractors

Who needs Black Mirror when you got *this* shit, lol