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Naomi L.A ‘Baudelaire’ Smith

@naomilasmith

A librarian who left the profession due to racism —now a global DEI Consultant. Founder of blackandgoldeducation.org | die4artbynaomi.com Content Creator | Workshop Facilitator | Public Speaker Let’s work together🧚🏽‍♂️ ✨ https://linktr.ee/naomilasmith

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Something powerful happened to me on ny dog walk today My dog is hood famous as i like to say.

open.substack.com/pub/naomibau...

11.03.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What started as a free idea that was rejected by two academic conferences turned into a webinar that generated close to four figures in revenue, with many attendees choosing to pay a premium ticket price! This is a reminder one persons trash is another persons treasure…

06.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How complicit are we are in our own suffering?

How complicit are we in wider collective suffering?

How often do we look within and ask ourselves if there is any part of us that needs to change in order to see a difference in our personal and collective lives?

03.03.2026 12:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Academics should be dominating social media !

02.03.2026 16:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Beyond The Ivory Tower: Social Media As Sites of Liberation? A practical anti-hegemonic workshop desined to help academics create social media which break barriers beyond The Ivory Tower

Academia won’t save us.
Join me next week to learn how to create critical pedagogical content online that will connect with students inside and outside of universities as well as build a personal platform, & create financial resilience if circumstances change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

25.02.2026 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Feedback from my latest YouTube video. I’m hosting a webinar for academics, educators, and knowledge workers on how to use social media intentionally and ethically for public education, collective impact, and real change.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

05.02.2026 20:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you !

05.02.2026 09:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beyond The Ivory Tower: Social Media As Sites of Liberation? A practical anti-hegemonic workshop desined to help academics create social media which break barriers beyond The Ivory Tower

Upcoming webinar from @naomilasmith.bsky.social aimed at academics: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

26.01.2026 12:29 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Beyond The Ivory Tower: Social Media As Sites of Liberation? A practical anti-hegemonic workshop desined to help academics create social media which break barriers beyond The Ivory Tower

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

We need new tools, new imaginative and new willingness to take responsibility within our own spheres of influences not more conferences and articles & builfiny #digitalskills that support dditional income streams during a time of job precarity in HE!

05.02.2026 09:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@nedpotter.bsky.social would love to invite you this !

24.01.2026 06:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beyond The Ivory Tower: Social Media As Sites of Liberation? A practical anti-hegemonic workshop desined to help academics create social media which break barriers beyond The Ivory Tower

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

!!! #genz #genalpha #socialmedia #academics

24.01.2026 06:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A Reflection on #Decolonial Work & Collective Responsibility Anyone in the UK has seen the railway notice:

open.substack.com/pub/naomibau...

14.11.2025 09:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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DON’T MY HAIR IN THE LIBRARY! EXPOSING HAIR MICROGRESSIONS IN #uklibraries #academiclibraries

#blacklibrarians #libraryracism #mysogynoire

SHARE TODAY: open.substack.com/pub/naomibau...

07.08.2025 12:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#HAIRMICROAGRESSIONS EXPERIENCED BY UK #BLACK #ACADEMICLIBRARIANS AVAILABLE TO READ NOW lnkd.in/e-qbcVE3

06.08.2025 11:47 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Temporary road signs set up by the Met saying at yesterday’s march 

THREATENING OR ABUSIVE
CHANTS
MAY LEAD TO ARREST

IT’S AN OFFENCE 
TO SUPPORT A
PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION

Temporary road signs set up by the Met saying at yesterday’s march THREATENING OR ABUSIVE CHANTS MAY LEAD TO ARREST IT’S AN OFFENCE TO SUPPORT A PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION

The U.K. is a police state

20.07.2025 18:02 👍 5922 🔁 1563 💬 150 📌 231
The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000

The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000

Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.

This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.

“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.

#Gaza

21.07.2025 21:23 👍 940 🔁 404 💬 14 📌 10

I’ve recently been blessed with a grant and am now in the early stages of creating a small community library and running workshops for people who’ve never truly felt welcomed in traditional literary spaces. My goal is to build something different—open, empowering, and radically inclusive.

08.07.2025 14:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

If you’re open to supporting this effort, feel free to email me at info@die4artbynaomi.
Thank you so much,
Naomi

08.07.2025 14:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you’re weeding any books this summer especially titles on self-development, resilience, and creativity I’d love the opportunity to repurpose them for this new project. Even small donations of 1 or 2 books would mean a lot.

08.07.2025 14:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve recently been blessed with a grant and am now in the early stages of creating a small community library and running workshops for people who’ve never truly felt welcomed in traditional literary spaces. My goal is to build something different—open, empowering, and radically inclusive.

08.07.2025 14:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Welcome to DIE4ART: A Creative, Educational Agency specialising in PR related to Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Education (DIE) to help brands, creatives and influencers discuss controversial topic...

I’m now an author! Yesterday I released an ebook called 1234 Open This Door! Unlocking New Knowledge, Power & Creative Freedom. It is a 67-page guide, designed to help you break free from limiting beliefs and reconnect with the truth of who you really are www.die4artbynaomi.com/shop

05.05.2025 08:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as Colonial Project | Catalogue and Index

'Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as a Colonial Project' by @gabriellapreyes.bsky.social. How classification systems uphold colonial knowledge structures & contribute to epistemicideas as they disregard indigenous knowledges. journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #DeweyDecimal #LCSH #Libraries

25.04.2025 11:28 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Today, I had the honor of virtually speaking in Texas on “The Power of Designing the Unseen: Indigenous Wisdom in Action. It was important for me to communicate #hope to design students currently living under the Trump administration many of whom are facing the threat of mass deportation.

25.04.2025 16:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Today, I had the honor of virtually speaking in Texas on “The Power of Designing the Unseen: Indigenous Wisdom in Action. It was important for me to communicate #hope to design students currently living under the Trump administration many of whom are facing the threat of mass deportation.

25.04.2025 16:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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polite reminder : If your commitment to equity doesn’t extend to all oppressed people, then it’s just performative—no better than the ‘allies’ you critique #DEI

24.04.2025 09:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would rather 50 people who support me regularly, buy my products etc then 10 000 who don’t give a damn about me and wouldn’t notice if I deactivated my account lol

24.04.2025 09:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That’s a great analogy ! And yes in regards to follower account I agree. A lot of people just focus on increasing their followers versus an engaged community no matter the size !!

24.04.2025 09:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And if Instagram sees your post is working well with your existing followers that’s when it will push it out to non followers … sorry for the spam but social media is also one of my expertise now that im a full time content creator / work with creators on their social media presence :)

24.04.2025 07:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I would also say that single posts are poor for engagement even with followers. Instagram awards attention as that is its currency . Single posts = 1 second of attention. I tell my clients you will grow with carousels even if it’s just growing engagement with existing followers

24.04.2025 07:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Adding music to carrousels puts them in the reel algorithm and amps up engagement and consequently conversion - most people think there is only one algorithm on Instagram. There are 3 - one for stories, posts and reels

24.04.2025 07:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0