Jarika is revising...again y'all 🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️

This is ssooo good and makes me think even more about what this show is saying about love, humanity, and community ❤️

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

I'm currently standing in a library, aka the happiest place on earth... I haven't visited this branch in over seven years because I married and moved to a different branch. One of the librarians just saw me and said, "How are you? I haven't seen you."
Libraries are a place to belong 💕💕
#LibraryJoy

Snark while delivering unhappy medical news should be illegal...alas, here we are

Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night. Work...

Something lovely in a rough day.

baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...

Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman credited with discovering a periodic element, Tennessine (Element 117). She works at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and now mentors the next generation. Black women belong in STEM. When we see ourselves in science, we know we belong there too.

And tomorrow will be even crazier. Whew get me outta here 🤭

If I wrote an account of my day out as a scene in my novel, my agent would flag it as unrealistic and ask for edits...
And you know what? Same.
I cannot (and will not) make this stuff up 😩😩

What once felt scattered now knows where it belongs.
This chapter is less about proving yourself and more about living in alignment. You are building with intention now.

It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.

I am regularly asked what specifically blue states and Congress should do to protect the midterm elections.

Here you go, I list and explain them one by one.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

Aaannnd we're back. I'm glad I resolved it but my what a jump-scare. 😔🤭

I wrote most of my last draft in Scrivener. Luckily, I copied it all to Word because now Scrivener can't find the draft or any of my research notes. This is an epic fantasy novel based in mythology with present-day worshippers. All my research. Gone.
I am not panicking but I am not happy, either.

Amazing, congratulations 🎊 👏🏾

During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4

Trayvon Martin (photo).

Trayvon Martin would have turned 31 today. #BlackLivesMatter #BLM

This morning: slipped on ice

Now: icing my whole body 😩

I'm still here...deeply focused on revisions and...oh yes, the winter storm that has us eating by candlelight tonight. It's actually kinda romantic, except my kids are here too. So it's mostly crisis management 🙃 🤪

Yvonne Wells posing with her quilt "Yesterday: Civil Rights in the South III" (1989) at the first "Realizing the Dream" concert, Moody Music Building, Tuscaloosa, AL, January 13, 1990. The artist is a young Black woman, wearing a stylish red jacket that matches the strong red color in her art. She is smiling.

Rosa Parks I, 2005, quilt, cotton/polyester blend Another quilt by Yvonne Wells, this one also filled with vibrant, symbolic imagery. It shows a large, central circular motif, with figures surrounding it. A woman representing Rosa Parks is seated at the bottom left, indicating her historical role in the civil rights movement. The quilt features a bus, symbolic of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, alongside American flags, people holding signs, and crosses, pointing towards themes of justice, faith, and social activism. It has a surreal charming quality.

Yvonne Wells (1939) is an African-American folk artist and quilter from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
She is best known for her self-taught style and her story quilts depicting scenes from the Bible and the Civil Rights Movement.
Wells describes herself as, “storyteller first, and a folk quilter second.”

#BackInTheFabLane had me feeling a way...a good way.

I love a good ostentatious, luxurious lifestyles of yada yada type of moment...and this was done just so

Plus, nostalgia: Baby Phat + the girls + mild ex drama.

If we're not getting a second Crazy, Rich Asians, at least Kimora came thru 🫶🏾

My boundaries stayed firm and intact for yet another holiday season. And it has been the merriest yet. I wish I had learned this a decade ago 😩

Merry Christmas!! 🎄 🎁 🎄
I hope it is filled with joy and love and PEACE above all.
You don't owe anybody anything. Protect your peace and make good memories. ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

We’d like to share a remembrance for Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, who has passed away. Her life and work helped preserve history, expand whose stories are told, and inspire generations to come.

a woman is surrounded by flames and has glowing eyes . Alt: a woman is surrounded by flames and has glowing eyes... scene from Black Lightning on CW.

Happy Negro Solstice to all who celebrate. And remember to keep those powers quiet unless you want them in your business, Beloved.

Tax targeting Gullah-Geechee landowners on Sapelo Island could force land loss The effort to reassess the Hogg Hummock property is the latest move that could force Gullah-Geechee descendants from Georgia island.

It's never accidental. It's always targeted. And somehow, it's always the disenfranchised who bear the brunt.

www.splcenter.org/resources/st...

Remembering the Black Film Giants We've Lost in 2025 Remembering S. Pearl Sharp, Pioneering Black Woman Filmmaker and Poet + A Look Back at the Legacies of Jimmy Cliff, Malcolm Jamal Warner, and Other Black Film Artists We’ve Lost in 2025

open.substack.com/pub/blackfil...

a man reading a book to a young boy Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.

Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!

[BIG ASS THREAD]

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for the US Senate in Texas. Allred to seek House seat Crockett, one of Congress’ most outspoken Democrats and a frequent target of GOP attacks, jumped into the race on the final day of qualifying in Texas.

Jasmine Crockett launches her campaign for the US Senate in Texas, as Colin Allred drops out to run for a House seat.

Ready or not, it’s Monday.

I hope you all have the day you want and need 🩵✌️

#nature #sunbeams #trees #forest

That canceled show you’ll never stop thinking about.

😭 Ever