Mimi Ivy

trying something new 🫢

I really enjoyed 28 Years Later and now I am officially back in my zombie bag -- which reminds me that I still need to read The Girl with All the Gifts

scheduling time for reading and writing and finding places around the city to do so 🌹

not me extending an olive branch and getting BLOCKED in return 😭🫡

Toni Morrison on writing:
"I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did. I try to make it look like I never touched it, and that takes a lot of time and a lot of sweat."

Goodreads has the most elite quotes on their mobile loading page. I love them. #booksky

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.” - Amy Tan, “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”

"Emasculation is a word that doesn't exist in the feminine. It's always been a masculine concern...Masculinity is an identity that constantly has to prove itself." -Esther Perel on the idea of successful women "emasculating" men.

playing is probably regulating my nervous system

becoming obsessed with sudoku for some reason

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

To bomb Iran the US deployed 7 B2 bombers, each of which cost $2.1B to build. They used 14 huge “bunker busters,” a model that cost $500 million to develop.

The US invested ~ $15 billion in this attack—almost 50% more than it invested in affordable housing construction this year.

“…Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” - Mark 9:24 (NKJV)
my special verse for this season.

happy ancestral birthday Octavia Butler. I am a better thinker, observer, writer, and dreamer because of the work you shared with us ♥️

“God bless. Stay safe.” The cashier told me that in the McDonald’s drive thru today. We are shaken and traumatized here in LA but there is still a powerful sense of community.

I guess the obvious answer is that we will never excel here. And we have to construct a new and better place where we can live according to our values and thrive.

I am still thinking about this. How can we excel in a society that serves a different God than we do?

I want to read more novels set in Appalachia.

"The white man has a gun, a matchet, a bow and carries fire in his mouth. He does not fight with one weapon alone." - Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, 85

"Yes, we are talking about the white man's road. But when the roof and walls of a house fall in, the ceiling is not left standing. The white man, the new religion, the soldiers, the new road - they are all part of the same thing."

I'm in awe of the people of Los Angeles this year. They're still recovering from a major wildfire, and now they're fighting fascism.

I'm always proud to be a Californian, but even more so now.

“Fascism is here” is spray painted under the bridges leading to the Ronald Reagan Washington National airport. I read the graffiti this morning while I was en route. The day has come full circle.

These checkpoints are popping up across the city after the mass ICE protests and the arrival of the National Guard. Helicopters are flying overhead as I type this. It’s nearly midnight. They are warring against Black and Brown folks.

I just landed in Los Angeles from my DC trip and my Lyft was stopped by LAPD at a checkpoint. We had to show ID and proof of address before being allowed to continue home. The policing of our communities is ramping up overnight.

same feelings!!

🎉 🥳 🎉

Coco Gauff wins her 2nd Grand Slam at the #FrenchOpen25!!

Thread attached of her historic win as the youngest player to win #RolandGarros and 1st American since Serena Williams in 2015.

Coco was down 1-4 love40 in the 1st set forcing a tiebreak and lost. She won 6(5)-7, 6-2, 6-4.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

would’ve loved to see more on Afro-Christian syncretic religion

The National Museum of African American History and Culture was everything I thought it would be 😍 But two days still wasn’t enough.

The House of the Spirits has one of the best endings of any book I've ever read.

claiming infinite time and energy for reading and critically thinking and daydreaming.