6th Annual Native Writers Seminar Final Deadline 4/27
2025 Fellow Richard DeVore shares how this program acts as a catalyst for Indigenous creators showing the power of Native writers when they lead the narrative
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Pausing this morning's #5amwritersclub to celebrate the LA Times awarding me their Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction this past weekend.
I'm gobsmacked and grateful.
#5amwritersclub #debutauthor
Her CLUELESS crush is the only one who can hide SAYLOR from her mother and her millions of followers! Summer Official by Rebekah Weatherspoon Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.
SUMMER OFFICIAL IS OUT NOW! 🛹🩵🍦
You can get signed copies and swag from Reparations Club and The Ripped Bodice!
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#LesbianVisibilityWeek
#booksky
#YABookSky
#blackbooksky
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month?
Did you know that the IEA is celebrating National Poetry Month this Thursday by hosting a conversation with two amazing, Indigenous poets, Jake Skeets and Billy-Ray Belcourt?
On April 19, Brazil's Indigenous Peoples' Day, Duhigó Tukano (Tukano), Abrão Mayoruna (Matsés), and Reby Ferreira (Munduruku) reaffirm art as a tool for cultural affirmation and combating historical stereotypes.
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Beirut born artist Helen Zughaib mixes familiar imagery to bridge East and West #WomensArt
Acoma clay figure holding a painted pot, wearing bead earrings and a geometric skirt; exhibition title "I Am Clay."
Opening June 7 at the Museum of International Folk Art: I Am Clay: Acoma Life in Figures, the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the figurative pottery of Acoma Pueblo. Community-curated. 120+ works. A story told from within.
#IAmClay #AcomaPueblo #IndigenousArt #MOIFA
Photo of two women sitting on top of a high wall which has a mural on it featuring Indian womend and rhe word 'fearless'
Fearless, a collective of activists/artists building a movement of women across India and South Asia, who use art to reclaim public space for women #WomensArt
Hundreds of beaded bags and pouches are among the thousands of historic items that will be returned to the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
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📸: Tamástslikt Cultural Institute
#nativeartifacts #nativeart #umatillaindianreservation #oregon #theoregonian
South African photographer and filmmaker Zanele Muholi self-identifies as a visual activist, and their development as a photographer is deeply intertwined with their advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ community in South Africa and beyond.
#QueerArt
#RepresentationMatters
#WomensArt
#WyrdWomen
Apsaalooke Saints: Tomorrow Is Forever
Serving as a bridge between ancestral depth and modern presence this piece stands as a reminder that we are our own sacred iconography. We carry our history forward, all the while proving that traditional ways are cornerstones of contemporary society.
It's publication day for Iman Humaydan's SONGS FOR DARKNESS, tr. Michelle Hartman, and author & translator talk with us about songs as memory, as solidarity, as resistance:
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A spread of copies of Growing my Way Home by Jenn Ashton. On the cover: the top third and bottom fifth are solid light tan panel. The top, in a serif font, bears the title "Growing" in Green and on the next line in burgundy "My Way Home". The subtitle is "Stories of "Resilience and Care" Then middle is a lovely painting with collage-esque effects of a greenhouse, trees to the left, pinecone, legs, flowers, and a house. The bottom reads "Jenn Ashton"
The new work of autofiction Growing My Way Home by award-winning Sḵwx̱wú7mesh author @raveonstudio.bsky.social is here! Growing My Way Home traces Ashton’s experiences as a thirteen-year-old drug dealer, a fifteen-year-old parent, and finally an author and artist.
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The cover of The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
I’m 71% through The Poet Empress & usually I’d finish it up at work but I’m certain imma end up crying and I can’t do that at my desk so I may wait until I’m off. There’s no romance but this love story is so gut wrenching. Possible #1 book of the year! #Booksky #Diversebooksky #fantasy
Bad Queer by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan. A non binary teenager with brown skin wearing a turquoise hat and pink shirt.
Absolutely loved this verse-novel by @unembarrassable.bsky.social!
It follows a non-binary British-Tamil teenager who joins a youth theatre group, experiences first love, and finds their voice.
Highly recommend. 📚🏳️🌈 📚💙
“I was not yet born
when Mother wrapped our country
into her bundle and abandoned her own self
so that my navel would not be tied
to the rope of war . . .”
Read “Flashes” by Afghan poet Somaia Ramish (translated by Sholeh Wolpé
Three images of a long dress with flowing skirt and elegant book spine motifs, including a close-up and an image of the dress on a model and one of the dress on a woman in a library
Steampunk style 'book dress' by French designer Sylvie Facon #womensart
Rainy Day
Painting by DMP/Impressionism
Acrylic, 12x12 canvas
#paintingsbydmp #selftaught
#acrylic #ArtistOfBlueSky
#handpainting #womanpainter
#paintingsonbluesky #ArtYear
#umbrella #rainycity #womanunderumbrella
The title gives the scene this painting deeper meaning. “Paraclete” is a word often translated as comforter, advocate, or helper, and Nigerian artist Bamidele Ibrahim uses that idea to turn a quiet domestic encounter into an image of care as a spiritual and human necessity. This is not a lesson scene or a hierarchy of power. Instead, a seated figure appears to offer steadiness, refuge, and companionship to someone worn down by sorrow, fatigue, or uncertainty. The two women sit in an intimate interior built from pattern, touch, and emotional contrast. A dark-skinned Black woman with braided hair sits on a low, cloth-draped platform, her body angled forward in a protective, attentive pose. She wears a turquoise sleeveless top and a violet wrap skirt, and her expression is soft and caring as she looks down at the other woman resting against her. That woman is very pale with light blond hair, closed eyes, and a tired, folded posture. She sits on a cream-and-khaki checkerboard floor, one arm draped across her knees, her head lying on the yellow cloth near the first woman’s hand. She wears a black cropped top and a textured orange-brown skirt. Behind them, an arched window opens to trees and sky, while the wall blazes with wax-print textile patterns in orange, blue, purple, black, and white. At the right, a green potted plant adds another note of life and gentleness. The surface shifts between painted illusion and the look of real fabric, making the room feel warm, tactile, and inhabited. Born in Lagos, Ibrahim’s work often joins contemporary figuration with Ankara-inspired fabrics, intense dark tonalities, and themes drawn from social, religious, and everyday human experience. In this painting, those concerns come together with unusual tenderness. The patterned wall does not distract from the figures. It surrounds them like a living atmosphere, so that support, identity, and community are not background conditions, but the very fabric through which people endure.
“The Paraclete” by Bamidele Ibrahim (Nigerian) - Fabric & oil on canvas / 2023 - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, Virginia) #WomenInArt #BamideleIbrahim #Ibrahim #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumofFineArts #AfricanArt #ContemporaryArt #art #artText #arte #BlackArtist #NigerianArtist #NigerianArt
A black and white image of olive trees against a blank sky, overlaid in white text it reads: from the archive: Poetry, Zaytouna By Ahmed Douma, translated from Arabic by Abdelrahman ElGendy “An olive tree, seeded by your hands, its thirst sated by longing, and longing knows no cure but reunion. We’ll return to Zaytouna, to shade our suture.”
WWB contributor Ahmed Douma has been arrested and placed in pre-trial detention in Egypt for his writing. Today, we’re republishing his poem “Zaytouna” (tr. Abdelrahman ElGendy) and joining in the calls for his immediate release. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Pink graphic displaying an illustration of someone working on the computer with various pieces of social media content emerging from their desktop screen. There’s a person standing behind the employee at the desk, holding up their phone as if proudly documenting the other employee’s work. The graphic is titled “Marking Grant for Diverse Debut Romance Authors”. The subtitle says, “Receive $1200 to market your 2026/2027 debut!” Beneath the subtitle is a bright green button that says, “Applications Open”.
🚨 NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!
Are you a diverse adult romance writer with a debut novel slated to come out in 2026 or 2027? You could receive a $1200 grant to put towards your marketing budget!
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Stylised artwork featuring a central standing yellow figure with arms open being held by another yellow figure from above
Artwork by Sinéad O'Connor, (who adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat in her last years). Her art was used as the cover for her 1994 album 'Universal Mother'
#WomensArt
•°◇ MEET THE ARTIST ◇°•
I wrote it all by hand so i tried to make my handwriting neater ( my actual handwriting is nowhere near this dw)
#art #meettheartist
Happy birthday! Wishing you happiness and continued success.
I turned 30.
I've drawn a fruit themed portrait for my birthday for the past 6 years. This year is a fig. Transformation, patience, and an unexpected sweetness.
Photo of a large scale sculpture resembling a sitting person with a bird cage, created with wire and hundreds of large books, sited on a desert
''Body of Knowledge' by Dana Albany for Burning Man 2000, it was constructed with out-dated textbooks and discarded library books #WomensArt
Our Spring 2026 issue with cover art by Micah Wesley (Kiowa/Muscogee) is out now! Find it at firstamerican.art/current-issue
Thank you for appreciating my culture and art. It is a profound blessing to be Apsaalooke. Although I may be non-traditional, I remain committed to preserving our culture for future generations.
#apsaalooke #art #spiritart #fypage #farawayfineart #indigenousartist #CrowTribe #contemporaryart
In this time of rising fascism and anti-Muslim sentiment, Anu Khosla takes a close look at three books that explore Hindutva and its violent effects in India — the novels QUARTERLIFE by Devika Rege and SARASWATI by Gurnaik Johal, and Zara Chowdhary's memoir THE LUCKY ONES.
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