After years of being told there wasn't a market for this kind of book, you can now pre-order my first book "Black.Fat.Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself". Available March 25, 2025. doctorjonpaul.com/blackfatfemmeb…

-Text “Marcellus” to 97016 to join his advocacy team. -Stand against his execution by signing his petition: innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop… -Share Marcellus’s story far and wide.

THE COVER FOR 'TIL DEATH IS HERE!! 🤯 I am biased when I say she is even CUTER in real life!! From the ankara print to the confetti that also looks like something else (👀) She’s a dream and she’s out in JANUARY 💗

My moment has arrived. Coming soon to The Washington Post. 🤭

Elegance comes from experiencing pain and letting it make you more beautiful rather than bitter

Friday night plans: bake a cake and drink champagne. This is the cake I’m baking. 🥹 freshbeanbakery.com/berries-and-cr…

Me getting ready to go back to school for my *third* degree at 38:

Hate to sound critical but: a lot of writing on grief is terrible. 😭 I severely need to enter the chat more.

I thought my perversion to podcasts & audiobooks was me being a contrarian as usual. Turns out, I struggle with auditory processing, it frustrates my brain and so my brain created a negative association to these popular forms of media lol. Am I alone?

A reminder that only 6% of published authors are Black. The number for Black queer published authors are even slimmer. Purchase my first book, Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself, below:

Other than “Black excellence” being an annoying & corny phrase, when folk harp on that as a descriptor I wonder where is the space for the Black mediocre? The Black mundane? You see how ridiculous it is to do this? 😭

There’s certainly something to be said about the lack of cultural & social learning of girlhood due to the loss of teen magazines of the early 2000s. We had: Teen, Seventeen, Twist, J-14, Tiger Beat, Teen People, Cosmo Girl, Elle Girl, YM, etc. Now we only have Teen Vogue?

This Pisces Full Moon, I want you to remember that your desires are not selfish.

Made it through another stupid ass workday. ✅

Your eternal reminder to stop settling for being reimbursed for work trips or other related work expenses. They have the money. Make *them* pay for it up front or say no.

Incredible opportunity to connect, build & share with incarcerated writers. I logged my interest in the attached Google Form and encourage my fellow writers to do the same.