#blackwriters — Public Fediverse posts

@whatebonyreads, Black Royalty, wrote:

I will never be okay with Black book characters being voiced by white narrators!

#blackwomen #92percent #blackbooks #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

@whatebonyreads, Black Royalty, wrote:

I will never be okay with Black book characters being voiced by white narrators!

#blackwomen #92percent #blackbooks #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

@whatebonyreads, Black Royalty, wrote:

I will never be okay with Black book characters being voiced by white narrators!

#blackwomen #92percent #blackbooks #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

@whatebonyreads, Black Royalty, wrote:

I will never be okay with Black book characters being voiced by white narrators!

#blackwomen #92percent #blackbooks #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

@whatebonyreads, Black Royalty, wrote:

I will never be okay with Black book characters being voiced by white narrators!

#blackwomen #92percent #blackbooks #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

“The Guardian of Couture” Teaser Promo, Part One

Couture Magazine isn’t just a fashion bible — it’s a battleground. Behind the glossy covers and celebrity spreads lies a world where interns are tested beyond coffee runs and copy machines. From clogged toilets to 24/7 on-call chaos, survival means shedding illusions and stepping into the fire.

But the real test? The Primal Premiere. That’s when the staff — those impossibly beautiful, retro-glasses-wearing editors — reveal their true selves. And if you’re not ready for what’s underneath, you’re not ready for Couture.

I should know. I lived it.

My name is Alcide Lancaster. I survived the summer internship that changed everything — spandex, secrets, Fashion Week madness, and the September Issue. I uncovered a legacy my grandparents once protected, one my family rejected. But I embraced it, with allies, love, and legends by my side.

This is my story.

You’ll never forget the first time.
Exclusively on Wattpad, hitting the runway May 2026. Don’t miss it!

“The Guardian of Couture” Teaser Promo, Part One

Couture Magazine isn’t just a fashion bible — it’s a battleground. Behind the glossy covers and celebrity spreads lies a world where interns are tested beyond coffee runs and copy machines. From clogged toilets to 24/7 on-call chaos, survival means shedding illusions and stepping into the fire.

But the real test? The Primal Premiere. That’s when the staff — those impossibly beautiful, retro-glasses-wearing editors — reveal their true selves. And if you’re not ready for what’s underneath, you’re not ready for Couture.

I should know. I lived it.

My name is Alcide Lancaster. I survived the summer internship that changed everything — spandex, secrets, Fashion Week madness, and the September Issue. I uncovered a legacy my grandparents once protected, one my family rejected. But I embraced it, with allies, love, and legends by my side.

This is my story.

You’ll never forget the first time.
Exclusively on Wattpad, hitting the runway May 2026. Don’t miss it!

“The Guardian of Couture” Teaser Promo, Part One

Couture Magazine isn’t just a fashion bible — it’s a battleground. Behind the glossy covers and celebrity spreads lies a world where interns are tested beyond coffee runs and copy machines. From clogged toilets to 24/7 on-call chaos, survival means shedding illusions and stepping into the fire.

But the real test? The Primal Premiere. That’s when the staff — those impossibly beautiful, retro-glasses-wearing editors — reveal their true selves. And if you’re not ready for what’s underneath, you’re not ready for Couture.

I should know. I lived it.

My name is Alcide Lancaster. I survived the summer internship that changed everything — spandex, secrets, Fashion Week madness, and the September Issue. I uncovered a legacy my grandparents once protected, one my family rejected. But I embraced it, with allies, love, and legends by my side.

This is my story.

You’ll never forget the first time.
Exclusively on Wattpad, hitting the runway May 2026. Don’t miss it!

“The Guardian of Couture” Teaser Promo, Part One

Couture Magazine isn’t just a fashion bible — it’s a battleground. Behind the glossy covers and celebrity spreads lies a world where interns are tested beyond coffee runs and copy machines. From clogged toilets to 24/7 on-call chaos, survival means shedding illusions and stepping into the fire.

But the real test? The Primal Premiere. That’s when the staff — those impossibly beautiful, retro-glasses-wearing editors — reveal their true selves. And if you’re not ready for what’s underneath, you’re not ready for Couture.

I should know. I lived it.

My name is Alcide Lancaster. I survived the summer internship that changed everything — spandex, secrets, Fashion Week madness, and the September Issue. I uncovered a legacy my grandparents once protected, one my family rejected. But I embraced it, with allies, love, and legends by my side.

This is my story.

You’ll never forget the first time.
Exclusively on Wattpad, hitting the runway May 2026. Don’t miss it!

“The Guardian of Couture” Teaser Promo, Part One

Couture Magazine isn’t just a fashion bible — it’s a battleground. Behind the glossy covers and celebrity spreads lies a world where interns are tested beyond coffee runs and copy machines. From clogged toilets to 24/7 on-call chaos, survival means shedding illusions and stepping into the fire.

But the real test? The Primal Premiere. That’s when the staff — those impossibly beautiful, retro-glasses-wearing editors — reveal their true selves. And if you’re not ready for what’s underneath, you’re not ready for Couture.

I should know. I lived it.

My name is Alcide Lancaster. I survived the summer internship that changed everything — spandex, secrets, Fashion Week madness, and the September Issue. I uncovered a legacy my grandparents once protected, one my family rejected. But I embraced it, with allies, love, and legends by my side.

This is my story.

You’ll never forget the first time.
Exclusively on Wattpad, hitting the runway May 2026. Don’t miss it!

FAB 5 FREDDY may not be the household name he once was, but this autobiography should change that. Come for the inside stories of graffiti, rap, hip-hop, and MTV, but you’ll stay for the reminiscences of late-20th century Black New York. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/everybodys-fly-fab-5-freddy/1147568478?ean=9780593834909

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #autobiography #memoir #memoirs #rap #hiphop #graffiti #Blackwriters

INTENSELY CHARGED FRIENDSHIP begins in childhood, blossoms in beautiful and toxic ways throughout college and young adulthood. Powerful novel delineates the attraction and alienation of two outsiders, Black women in a majority-white art world. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lonely-crowds-stephanie-wambugu/1146511115?ean=9780316581332

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #Blackwriters #Blackwomenwriters

Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois
#blacksociologists #blackwriters #blackhistorians #blackpanAfricanists #blacktivists #ghana

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A SLEEK THRILLER OF MANNERS follows a young man’s spiral after his best friend’s mysterious death. From New York parties with privileged heirs and heiresses to his family’s roots in Atlanta’s Black elite, Smith chases leads and redemption. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/great-black-hope-rob-franklin/1146384402?ean=9781668077436

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #thriller #thrillers #Blackwriters #BlackLGBTQA #lgbtqai #lgbtqai2s

Toni Morrison would have been 95 today.

Dr Dre is 61 today.

Audre Lorde would have been 92 today.

John Travolta is 72 today.

#blackwomen #blackamerican #blackicons #blackwriters #movie #blackmusic #blackmastodon

AN ERITREAN REFUGEE IN LONDON finds solace in her own anger, in wandering the city, in reading her late mother’s diary, especially in literature and transgressive sexuality. Beautifully erudite, shocking in its frankness. B PLUS

https://coffeehousepress.org/products/the-seers?_pos=1&_psq=The+Seer&_ss=e&_v=1.0

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #Blackwriters #BlackBritishwriters #Eritrea #Eritreanwriters #lgbtqai2s #lgbtq #SmallPressSunday

political strategies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_(bishop)

#blackministers #blackeducators #blackwriters #blackleaders

Andrea Levy FRSL (7 March 1956 – 14 February 2019) was an [english] author best known for the novels Small Island (2004) and The Long Song (2010). She was born in

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DAZZLING TECH-WORLD THRILLER is sharp, satirical, bookish, artsy, and deeply rooted in Black culture and experience. You’ll be racing through it for the twisty plot but wanting to stop to savor its many brilliant lines! A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/who-knows-you-by-heart-c-j-farley/1146976393?ean=9780063418660

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #thriller #thrillers #suspense #satire #Blackwriters

SLEEK PARANORMAL NOIR is bluesy, queer, and unapologetically Black. Set in a magical city where detective summons the dead and angels, demons, vampires and ghosts rub shoulders with the living; richly engaging. B PLUS

https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-dead-withheld

@bookstodon

#book #books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novella #novellas #fantasy #paranormal #noir #lgbtqai #lgbtqai2s #Blackwriters #SmallPressSunday

BURDENED WITH A GENERATIONAL CURSE, women of the Falodun family find only heartbreak in romantic love. Shimmering, sharply observed novel with a touch of magic brings the sights and sounds of everyday life in Lagos, Nigeria into vivid focus. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cursed-daughters-oyinkan-braithwaite/1146945990?ean=9780385551472

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #Blackwriters #Nigeria #Nigerianwriters

Antonio Vieira advised the King of Portugal and later became a member of the Royal Council.
Padre António Vieira was born in Lisbon to Cristóvão Vieira Ravasco, the son of a [biracial Black] woman, Maria de Azevedo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Vieira

/5

#blackpriests #blackdiplomats #blackorators #blackpreachers #blackphilosophers #blackwriters

AN ESTRANGED MOTHER AND SON reunite in Japan despite the minefields of their shared past. Marvelously paced story of a complicated family history is rich with details of expatriate life in Tokyo from a distinctively Black and gay perspective. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/palaver-bryan-washington/1146657371?ean=9780374609078

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #Blackwriters #lgbtqai #lgbtqai2s #gay #Japan #Tokyo

AN ENSLAVED WOMAN’S POWERS of connecting with the dead, and with even older spirits, bring her understanding but no protection on an implacably brutal plantation. Poetic, thoughtful historical fantasy with a deep message. B PLUS

https://www.amazon.com/THELMA-Veilwalker-T-Dianell-Johnson-ebook/dp/B0GJP9362B?ref_=ast_author_mpb

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #historicalfiction #fantasy #BlackWriters #BlackHistory #SelfPublishedSunday

AN INSIGHTFUL NOVEL OF MANNERS offers a precisely evoked experience of New York’s daily life and its art scene, and the tensions around Black self-expression in a white-dominated creative field. Lovely, introspective, literate, Whartonian. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/minor-black-figures-brandon-taylor/1147097189?ean=9780593332368

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #NewYork #NewYorkCity #LGBTQ #Blackwriters #art

Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Baraka

#blackwriters #blackpoets #blackmen #blackamerican #blackpeople #blacktivists

INCISIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING ESSAYS on race and the Internet encompass many of humanity’s most beautiful creations (video games, literature, philosophy) and many of its ugliest (bigotry, torture, colonialism). Always insightful, often witty. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/racebook-tochi-onyebuchi/1147162261?ean=9780802166258

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #essays #history #culturalhistory #race #Blackwriters #Internet #InternetHistory

A REVERED FAMILY’S SECRETS come terrifyingly to light in a tense, gorgeously written tale of a Black church community in Mississippi. Evocative and deeply immersed in both horror and compassion, but characterization is what shines brightest. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dominion-addie-e-citchens/1146352441?ean=9780374609337

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #Blackwriters #Mississippi

This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies

This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies

This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies

This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies

one of my friends is in need of help after their publisher thoroughly ruined a book deal. please share/ donate! anything helps! #MutualAid #BlackMastodon #BlackWriters

https://gofund.me/75730aef3

@vanessawaltersb, a Black Goddess wrote:

Since people are arguing about reading books based on race, what I will say is leave Black and Brown people alone. Literature has long been white-centered and most of my

(1/5)

#blackwomen #the92percent #blackwriters #brownwriters #blackmastodon

a decent advance in the [uk]. Many Black [british] authors are offered NO advance at all to publish. Most Black [british] successful authors seem to be influencers/established public figures.

It’s tough everywhere but the US has more opportunity for Black writers simply because it is a bigger market with more Black [People].

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#blackwriters

Early life

Gay began writing essays as a teenager, with much of her early work being influenced by her experience with childhood sexual violence.

Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator.

Career

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackwriters #blackprofessors #blackeditors #blacksocialcommentators #blackmastodon

James Arthur Baldwin (neé Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackcreatives #blackhistory #blackwriters #blacktivists #blackgay #blackLGBTQ #blackmastodon

Awesome competition alert! You don't even need to be a BFS member to enter this one - it's open to all members of the BAME/Global Majority Community.

Win a ticket to the Black British Book Festival, thanks to the British Fantasy Society. Details ⬇️

https://britishfantasysociety.org/win-a-ticket-to-the-black-british-book-festival-in-london/

#horror #fantasy #scifi #speculativefiction #writers #creativetoots #blackbritish #blackwriters

Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014)

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackwriters #blackauthors

[Neely Fuller Jr. (October 6, 1929 – February 1, 2025)]

Mr. Neely Fuller, Jr. was born on October 6, 1929 at the height of the

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackwriters #blacksoldier #blackmastodon

Nuzo Onoh (born 22 September 1962)

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#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackbritish #britishnigerian #naija #blackwriters #spirituality #blackafrican #blackmastodon

Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008)

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackfineartists #blackartists #blackphotographers #blackwriters #blackeducators #blackfeminists #blackculturalhistorians #blackhistorians #blackcurators #blackmastodon

Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008)

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackfineartists #blackartists #blackphotographers #blackwriters #blackeducators #blackfeminists #blackculturalhistorians #blackhistorians #blackcurators #blackmastodon

Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008)

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackfineartists #blackartists #blackphotographers #blackwriters #blackeducators #blackfeminists #blackculturalhistorians #blackhistorians #blackcurators #blackmastodon

Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008)

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackfineartists #blackartists #blackphotographers #blackwriters #blackeducators #blackfeminists #blackculturalhistorians #blackhistorians #blackcurators #blackmastodon

Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008)

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackfineartists #blackartists #blackphotographers #blackwriters #blackeducators #blackfeminists #blackculturalhistorians #blackhistorians #blackcurators #blackmastodon

Service to Empire
a play by Maud Sulter

National Galleries Scotland present the first abridged rehearsed reading from Maud Sulter’s play SERVICE TO EMPIRE. Directed & abridged by Adura Onashile & co-curated with Mother Tongue. The reading is followed by a Q&A

9/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83luy9rmu38

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #drama

“I Name Myself Zami”
Maud Sulter’s Queer Form
Susannah Thompson, Scottish Literary Review 16/1, 2024

Available free on Open Access via Project MUSE

8/9

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930915

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #Queer #QueerArt

Maud Sulter: Passion
Her Work and Legacy

This website showcases her legacy, featuring exhibitions, events & publications to the present. It is curated & maintained on behalf of the Estate of Maud Sulter.

7/9

https://maudsulterpassion.wordpress.com

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana

Being written out of history can happen to you… No one will document our future but ourselves.
—Maud Sulter, “Call and Response” (1988)

Tomiwa Folorunso & Natasha Thembiso Ruwona draw on Maud Sulter’s essay “Call and Response” to discuss the making of their 2022 film “maud”

6/9

https://www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/in-response

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #film

“Sulter’s creative work encourages us to think of the Scottish African field as offering a fresh perspective on writing, identity and community.”

Maud Sulter: Passion, by Deborah Cherry, includes Sulter’s images & poetry—reviewed here by Esraa Husein

5/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/maud-sulter-passion-by-deborah-cherry/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana