Happy heavenly birthday to my mom today. 🌹

Period where?
The third season finale of “Abbott Elementary” gave Janine and Gregory’s buildup a most sensuous finish. (yes, still on a high after last night’s episode).
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'there is the sense that all of us are animals, and that, at the end of the day, human beings, as creatures of natural evolution, occupy no special status.'

Lyle Rexer on 'Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature' The Morgan for @thebrooklynrail

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The first Dayton Black Women’s Film Festival highlights included an outdoor social mixer, fourteen wonderful short films on the big screen, and the Bloom Award presentation to filmmaker Aisha Ford— the gorgeous statue created by artist Elizabeth Diggs.
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Edited this Keri Reynolds and Antonio Vega “One Life to Live” essay (a guardian angel recently posted some great new clips)! Gawd, I miss this soap opera. 💜🌹
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Today years old in noticing the heart between Su Li-zhen’s head and arm. It adds another angsty layer alongside Mr. Chow being in the mirror. 💜
Anyway— places where Maggie Cheung films are streaming right now including “In the Mood for Love” (2000).
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I made a beautiful vegan broccoli waffle with a cheddar just egg. Unfortunately, when I removed the waffle, a part collapsed on my left hand. It felt as though every last nerve was being burned alive. What unbelievable pain!
It’s healing better now though— bubbled and all.

Up on philly artblog, my review of Igiaba Scego’s richly written “The Color Line” novel. The heavy, sensitive tale—set in two Italian time periods— centers a 19th century Black woman painter and a contemporary Black woman curator. Thank you, Other Press.
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“The Neon is gearing up to host the inaugural Dayton Black Women's Film Festival, a groundbreaking event dedicated to amplifying the voices and stories of Black women in cinema….promising to be a celebration of diversity, creativity, and connection.” 🙌🏾
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Rest in power to my great uncle, Tommy. A wonderful person who was a phenomenal secondary force in my life. I’m not sure what the future holds without him.

Shot by Charles Burnett with continuity by Julie Dash, Alile Sharon Larkin’s 1982 film, “A Different Image” still correlates heavy today. Women’s bodies remain objectified and certain friendships continue to have a false sense of safety and care.
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Viola Davis, her husband Julius Tennon, and publisher Lavaille Lavette are launching JVL Media, a new publisher and packager focused on diverse and underrepresented voices. pwne.ws/4aXv7E9

First Ohioana Library Book Festival complete. Beautiful day. 💜💜💜

Tomorrow is the big day!!
Ohioana Book Festival, 10:30am-5pm, Columbus Library.
I will be sitting with H.M.S. Brown at table # 6 and part of the Women’s Fiction panel alongside Amanda Flower, Anna Lee Huber, and Jessica Strawser moderated by Robin Nesbitt, 2:30-3:15 PM, 2B.

It's quiet right now, but tomorrow this space will be filled with authors signing books at the #OhioanaBookFestival !! Join us at Columbus Library from 10:30am to 5:00pm!

For those of us who are writers and readers, I noticed that a lot of folks aren't familiar with the rich canon of Palestinian literature and don't know where to begin reading. In response to this, down below is a thread of novels, non-fiction, and poetry about Palestine (🧵):

Reading Rita Dove’s “Happenstance” in a bluish turtleneck.

What a lovely photo of Faith and Aminah! Thank you for sharing🌹

MOVEMENT WIN: 100+ cultural organizations have endorsed the 2004 call of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) over the past six months. Join us.

Faith Ringgold.💐
I’m imagining her reunited with her best friend, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson.