Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 6, 2024What I find curious about this thread is that the image he's critiquing is much, much more interesting than any of the images he brings up as examples of good images. The "Lois and Clark" images in particular are blandness personified. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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- Untitled May 6, 2024Israel apologists: "Student protestors should be arrested! Rule of law!" Also Israel apologists: "If rule of law goes against Israel, we'll take revenge on the prosecutors and their families!" https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-you-have-been-warned-republican
- Untitled May 5, 2024Flash forward to 2094, when people who are ten now will be like "the internet was different back then! We were all friendlier... there were hardly ever trolls... Now it's all gone to shit."
- Untitled May 4, 2024This is either incredible stupidity or incredible dishonesty from the cops, and I honestly can't tell which.
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Author Archives: Nisi Shawl
Good Boy, by Nisi Shawl (part 2)
This is part 2 of “Good Boy,” by Nisi Shawl. Click here to read part 1 of “Good Boy.”
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Good Boy, by Nisi Shawl (part 1)
“Alas” is pleased to present the third of three short stories by Nisi Shawl. This story will be presented in two parts. Nisi Shawl is the co-editor of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler … Continue reading
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Bird Day, by Nisi Shawl
“Alas” is pleased to present the second of three short stories by Nisi Shawl. Nisi Shawl is the co-editor of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press) and the co-author … Continue reading
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The Water Museum, by Nisi Shawl
“Alas” is pleased to present the first of three short stories by Nisi Shawl. Nisi Shawl is the co-editor of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press) and the co-author … Continue reading
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“What are you?”
Been looking all over for the Natasha Raymond poem by that title. Natasha and I performed it with my friend Elise (menshed in “My Favorite Beatle” below) in venues around Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Natasha, like most mixed race people, got that question a lot, and as a light-skinned black woman I could and can relate. “What are you?” these inquiring […]
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My favorite Beatle
My friend Elise Bryant wrote a play called The Zoo-zoo Chronicles about her life on the University of Michigan campus in the 1970s. In the first scene, Elise’s stand-in moves into a four-bedroom dorm suite with three white women. As an ice-breaker, one of the white women asks their new Black (we capitalized it back […]
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OEB Day!
Today is Octavia E. Butler’s birthday. If she were still alive, she’d be 62 and awesome. She wrote science fiction and fantasy, and one of her aims was to change the world with it. I think she did. I think she still does.
I was privileged to be Octavia’s friend, to know her and hang with […]
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Dear Father
Today is Father’s Day. So I called my mother.
My mother mostly raised me and my two younger sisters by herself. Dad divorced us when I was eight years old. He moved to a town half an hour away, and I rarely saw him, despite promised weekend visits. The Friend of the Court assessed him $35 a week child support. He […]
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Angry Black Goddesses
I practice a West African religious tradition known as Ifa or Orisha. It’s very closely related to Vodun, Santeria, Lucumi, and similar traditions in the Western Hemisphere.
Among the Ifa pantheon are many goddesses. One could say they are black, as they originate in black Africa. And at times one could say that they are angry.
Oya […]
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Fatology
A while back I saw this comic strip. Can’t remember the name. The setting was white suburbia, a family, which as my friend Sara points out “really narrows it down.”
The female lead of the comic strip (let’s call her Wilma) has a black friend of, shall we say, “a certain size.” Wilma spends three panels hinting around about an […]
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