I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Look at these legends we’re honored to call friends:
Guests of Honor: @victorlavalle.bsky.social, @chesyaburke.bsky.social, @redclayscholar.bsky.social, and @k8dee16.bsky.social.
Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines…
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And @chesyaburke.bsky.social's "Please, Momma" takes us on an errand to a psychic: reactormag.com/rreading-the...
And the truth is that your friends, partners, and those you choose to have around you are a representation of your value system and who you are as a person. Moreover, denying their behavior because it makes you feel better makes you culpable.
While the Vulture article on them is difficult to read (it took me hours--so, trigger warning for anyone who plans to try), this is pretty much exactly the type of behavior I'd expect from these two. But people refuse to accept the truth because it forces them to turn the mirror on themselves.
When Neil Gaiman married Amamda Palmer everyone called me an asshole for saying that anyone who can put up with that kind of behavior--not just put up with it, but invite in into your life, and live with it--has to be of low moral character themselves.
A Peanuts panel in which Linus is saying: No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.
Libraries close, books are banned, and knowledge becomes contraband. The system fights against its own destruction.
But educating ourselves and each other is the beginning of revolution.
"That guy's a Nazi, he can't publish here."
"You can't just suppress his free speech because he's a Nazi."
You do understand that the second sentence is, LITERALLY, "No, wait, we should hear what the Nazi has to say."
That's who you are. The guy who says the Nazi deserves to be heard.
Fuck you.
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I don't see you on Twitter anymore. But it's good seeing you and Cindy. Tell her I said hello!
Good to know. I haven't gotten the app for my phone, yet. Maybe it's time.
Awww! Thanks, Eva! How are you liking it? 🙂
Took me long enough.... 😂
Well, time for my first thread here on BlueSky, and I'm pissed off. I've been catching up on the situation with F&SF and Sheree Thomas. I'm slow because I'm not on FB anymore, where apparently the bulk of the convo is happening, and I'm barely on Twitter. Anyway.
My Genre Grapevine report on what's happening at F&SF, which accepted a story by an author connected to the National Front. Also digs into how anger was wrongly aimed at Sheree Renée Thomas and how publisher Gordon Van Gelder needs to deal with this issue. www.patreon.com/posts/88237737
