#BlackWriters, #BlackAuthors: Show appreciation to current readers + connect w/new ones. The #freeBLACKbooks event is 29-31 December 2025.
IF... 1) you are a Black author & 2) your book centers #BlackUs / has Black main characters, let's connect! ✍🏿🥰
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#bwg
#kwanzaa
An image of a microphone with the words "Be our guest!" in the center in white letters. At the top center is "@writingwhileblk". The Writing While Black logo is in the lower right hand corner; It is black silhouettes of a man and a woman each working on laptop computers with the word "Writing" above where the laptop monitors meet and an open book above the word "Writing". Beneath the couple and their two laptops are the words "While Black". On the bottom right is a Spotify logo and above that is a YouTube logo, both in Black.
We have begun scheduling the 2nd season of the #WritingWhileBlack Podcast!
We want #Blackauthors, #blackreaders, #blackwriters, #blackbookish folks, content creators, #blackbookstores, #blackpublishers, & all of Lit Loving #BlackUs to join us for great discussions about OUR stories.
Message me!
An audio book cover image of a Black man on the right side of the cover wearing a black cowboy hat, grey bandana, fringed black jacket and jeans that is open to reveal his bare breast. He is holding a gun pointed down in his right hand. The author's name "Beverly Jenkins" is above the words "Night Hawk" (the title of the book) and in smaller letters underneath the tittle and to the left of the cowboy's gun are the words "Narrated by Kevin R. Free".
👍🏾 I enjoyed listening to #NightHawk. The predictability of a #BeverlyJenkins book is comforting: I know I'm going to * learn something about the history of #BlackUs in the USA + * get LOVE with STRONG leads + * see some criminal activity interrupted.
4 those who love a short story or 10. 4 those of u who like the 'Twilight Zone' & 'Outer Limits' & 'Black Mirror' & stuff like that. 4 those who like work by/about #BlackUs... #DoEAiAMediaPublishing offers #ParadigmVOID available on amazon.
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#blackskybooks
#blackbooksky
Pictures of screen during a YouTube video (How to Stop Being a Placeholder for Men - Colorism Delusions & Coping Mechanisms | Dating Strategy) by Chrissie. There is graph with the text above it "Black mothers are more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to be their families' breadwinner" and a black box with some statistics in it to the right of the graph. That black box is circled in red and enlarged with a red arrow pointing to it. Above the words, in that black box, "Black love is literally based colorism" are three bulleted points as follow: * 55% LSW are married, * 30% of Medium skin shade are married, & * 23% DSW are married.
I disagree that "#Blacklove is literally based (on) #colorism." but there is SO much to unpack and heal for #BlackUs. SOOOOOOOOO.... much.
#whyiwrite
I write for me and I write for US. It has been challenging to find stories that resonate with me. I personally wanted to have stuff to engage in that was a reflection of me and that portrayed (past, present, future) #BlackUs as WINNING.
#Habarigani? #Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility)
How are you writing a winning future for & WITH you, your family, your community, & all of #BlackUs? 🧵
Happy Black Love MONTH!
Let's use this time 2 jumpstart/ampUP knowing & loving ourselves, our families, our communities & ALL of #BlackUs!
FREE books (1-3 February) over 👉🏽 jtbbooks.com/blackLove & DON'T say I never gave u nothin! 😂😂😂💋
#BlackBooks
#BlackBooksky
#BlackskyBooks
#BlackskyBookClub
Yes.
Have MUCH appreciation for seeing Black folks in the images @beelieveinreading.bsky.social!
We want all of #BlackUs to see/know/love ourselves! We are the center of our world.
#BlackArtsMovement
#Blackskywriters
#Blackskyartists
#Blackwritersky
#Blackartistsky
#habarigani? #ujamaa! (oo-JAH-mah) Cooperative Economics.
How/Do u share w/ #BlackUs?
endarkenment.com: Sharing wealth is another form of communitarian exchange, i.e., sharing & cooperating in general.
#Kwanzaa
#365kwanzaa
#kwanzaaeveryday
#dailykwanzaa
#kwanzaadaily
#everydaykwanzaa
#kwanzaa365
Knowing how vile-VIOLENT-violating the sows (system of yt supremacy) is, our ability to BE #BlackUs requires plans in place to defend us. 🧵
#Habarigani? #Kujichagulia (koo-jee-cha-goo-LEE-ah)
Questions for your #kwanzaajournal... Who/what is/n't #BlackUs? How have we, how can we, defend our "borders"? In what ways should we grow?
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Let's pull together. Let's all figure out ways to put more faith in #BlackUs today, this year and all ways. #harambee #dailykwanzaa #kwanzaa365 #everydaykwanzaa #marimbaani
All of #BlackUs can be FOR us and create on behalf of us and improve us and love on us and care for us and build for us and look out for us no matter what are individual titles and vocations are. Let's work together #forBlackUs. 🧵
When we know us, we can't help but love ourselves. When we know us, we can't help but stand tall and proudly look anybody straight in the eye. When we know #BlackUs we can't help but continue BOLDLY to be our powerful, beautiful, creative, joyfilled, winning selves. 🧵
What work do you do (should be done) in #community with #BlackUs? Let's work together. Let's pull together. #Harambee!
#Kwanzaa #everydaykwanzaa #kwanzaa365 #dailykwanzaa #kwanzaadaily #365kwanzaa #kwanzaaeveryday #journalnguzosaba #kwanzaasky
At my big age now, as I notice my body shifting & looking/feeling different, this work of self-worth presents itself again. I think a lot about #BlackUs. 🧵
This is my 1st experience w/bell hooks' WORK; In college I started lowercasing my name b/c of her. To put #BlackUs in the forefront, not to put my work in the forefront. In my papers I would lowercase i + uppercase We, Us, Our...
#booksof2025
#2025books
#Blackbooks
#blackauthors
US controlling OUR OWN narrative! Our art is a tool for freeing our minds and healing us and opening up channels of possibility. Artists, conscious #Blackartists, artists who love being Black and love Black people, are a key to #BlackUs getting/being/staying FREE. 🧵
How are you using your creative energy FOR us? When we are neutral, we are going with the flow, the status quo, the sows--system of white supremacy. Let's be FOR #BlackUs, actively & purposefully & intentionally. 🧵
#BlackUs writing ( #controllingOURnarrative, creating our reality, sharing our truth ) = a form of self determination.
#Blackskypoets
#365kwanzaa
#Kwanzaa365
#dailyKwanzaa
#kwanzaadaily
#poetry
#SelfDetermination
#miotrakasa
#miotrakasaboutiquehotel
#poetrylovers
#poetrycommunity
#BlackWritersGroup
I think that my passion for supporting #BlackUs in telling our stories in our voices, #ControllingOurNarrative, and creating OUTLETS for it is that something. (That something I didn't know I was missing.)🧵
#supportforBlackwriters
#BlackArtsMovement
#BlackArtists
#forBlackUs
#Blackwritersupport
I take stuff very personal when it comes to my ancestors and all of #BlackUs (past, present, and future)... It seems so clear to me that what happened to "them" happened to (at least a part of) ME!
#Habarigani? #Ujima.
We must accept & live the principle of shared or collective work & responsibility n all things good, right & beneficial 2 the community.
How / Do u work n #community to add value to #BlackUs?
#365Kwanzaa
#KwanzaaDaily
#DailyKwanzaa
#Kwanzaa365
#treeOFlife
#UPUnion
#PanAfrican
Are u now, have u ever been, &/or would you like 2 b n a writers group?
Me & #BlackUs is community oriented & being n a #BlackArtistCollective is THE best! The #BlackWritersGroup is so stimulating. youtu.be/QObw3U9F-kQ?...
#Blackskywriter
#Blackskywriters
#WritingWhileBlack
@iyapo.bsky.social
So many similarities in our experiences across space...
#BlackUs
Nobody does nothin like #BlackUs.
Individually and collectively I just love me some us. We the sh!t.
In what ways do you feel alienated from parts of you, your family, #BlackUs?
As we have been torn apart, our ongoing re-integration with ourselves (as individuals and as a collective) is a priority. WHOLEness & being WHOLE us helps in knowing ourselves & determining our path.
#365Kwanzaa
#harambee
How /Do you stay connected to the GOoDness in you, you family, & #BlackUs?
Even when I was not celebrating Kwanzaa, I had a habit of being on somebody's beach and by somebody's ocean the week between Christmas and New Years. Those spaces have taught me about #abundance.
#DailyKwanzaa
#Kwanzaa365
#HabariGani? #Kuumba! (Creativity)
...King Sesostris I taught that to do that which is of value is forever. www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/kuumba.html
Do you, can you, will you consider the next 7+ generations of #BlackUs in applying your creative (and other) energy?
#365Kwanzaa
#KwanzaaDaily
