I'm in Chapel Hill and this is my 8-year-old's first day at school and she's on lockdown because of an at-large shooter on UNC's campus. I am so, so fucking tired of this stupid nightmare country.

The art of flash fiction is based on desire—it leaves you wanting more. From The Atlantic, a series of short(er) stories on the theme from Kiese Laymon, Tess Gunty, Diane Williams, sṫǔttsiiso’ōḱǎasim, Sarah Wang, and Eileen Myles: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

If you aren’t going to call a guy who murders Black people using a gun with swastikas on it a white supremacist then you are no longer invested in telling the truth in any meaningful way

In the most important atlanta news of the day - my little sister is on the cover of Atlanta Magazine!!!!!!!!!!!

A white gunman just killed 3 Black grocery shoppers in a state that won’t let children learn why.

#Jacksonville

When I was in college it was a dream to be doing work that the Bay State Banner (a historic Black Boston newspaper) felt was important to report on. Today, I’m living the dream ✊🏽 baystatebanner.com/2023/08/23/unh…

Thankful this morning for the art and vision of Noname this morning.

'Analyze the gumption.'

noname has mastered some very specific styles, structures and motifs in her writing, song structure, and beat selection that will literally work every. single. time. and cannot be replicated the shit crazy

Quake.

It is still astounding that the legal overlords voted to force women to give birth in this hellscape the hates Black women, poor and working class women.

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I believe the great theologian James Cone summed up #Montgomery and #BlackTwitter perfectly:

Tomorrow people! I will love to hang out with you at the DC Library's central branch. ❤️

Straight shot that sister and then got his goofy boy friends to say he didn't straight shoot that sister? And they happily did. We the wreckage. No analysis needed for this fuckery. Just describe.

Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House because of concerns that competition would shrink in the book market. to.pbs.org/3rYnnk9

Per WGA rules, I’m not doing any press for my new show.

I *am* allowed to repost this here on my personal page however.

I’m so so proud of what we made. Loooong journey but it’s almost here.

Check out the trailer to THE CHANGELING.

Let’s go back to the *beginning* with the discussion of force.

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