Sailor Mer(Kaye)ry

@gildedspine

YA/MG author. Creator . American + Muslim + Blasian magical girl. Founder . Listen to my declaration!

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    23 Mar 2016

    New followers: you can call me Kaye. I'm apparently a magical girl, depending on who you ask. I talk a lot. I write...I should write more.

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  2. Feb 23

    Okay, guys, so I'm going on an official hiatus and giving my best friend the account password to lock me out. If we don't have each other's cell phone numbers and we have plans soon, DM me within the next two hours! The account will be checked sporadically.

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    Feb 22

    ✨

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    Feb 22

    Mommy's Khimar is a beautiful children's book--and I appreciate this thread on why the story is important not only for Muslim identity but Black identity as well. (Identity isn't, and shouldn't be, an either-or)

    It's hard to talk about erasure w/o seeming self-serving, so I've been hesitant to bring it up: This I'm seeing many lists of children's books with Black characters and no Black Muslims repped. Maybe bloggers simply didn't like the books that had them, but...
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    Feb 22

    WHEW

    Chicago Police Credit Their Extensive Experience Falsifying Evidence For Helping Solve Smollett Case
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  6. Feb 22

    My question for you, : why are you keeping this racist relevant?

    WATCH: Roseanne Barr calls Ocasio-Cortez "Farrakhan loving, bug-eyed b-tch"
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  7. Feb 22

    Socializing for a long period of time.

    ooh Twitter tell me a thing that you WISH you liked but that you DON'T like
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  8. Feb 22

    May they both always be blessed.

    A female polio vaccinator helps her colleague get out of waist-high snow in northern Pakistan
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    Feb 22

    The inimitable Nora Roberts weighs in on : "Here’s a warning for anyone who’s stolen any of my work and claimed it as his/her own. I’m coming for you."

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  10. Feb 22

    Thread!

    So I was talking last night about how I had the world of The City in the Middle of the Night for over two years before I had the characters. And someone asked afterwards how to deal with this problem, generally, of finding the characters to go with a world that already works.
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  11. Feb 22

    I asked my cousin for advice on how to get into a good grad school. "Make sure every personal narrative is sad. They want to see our pain, so own that and get your funding." 😅

    being a working class POC and writing scholarship applications feels like this:
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  12. Feb 22

    If you've had time as a self-declared ally to weigh in on how Black people should feel about Jussie (I've seen that) or bemoan your wasted time (I've seen that, too) you should be boosting this instead and doing something helpful.

    ICYMI: Dustin Passarelli, right, shot and killed Afghan-American Mustafa Ayoubi, left, reportedly shouting anti-Muslim slurs before murdering him in Indiana this week. Indiana is one of 5 states without hate crime laws. We all know how we got here. Pls share.
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    Feb 21

    *whispers* he's running

    BREAKING: Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime announces his retirement, statement inside:
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    Feb 22

    Hey y'all. We have a few schools we're still trying to find donors for in the ! Can you help fill these last requests to get books into kids' hands?

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  15. Feb 22

    I just read a post about "white manpain" as "white marzipan" which is perfect because now I can roll my eyes and imagine smashing entitlement under my boot.

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  16. Feb 22

    This is so true. Been thinking about this (+ Lauren's following tweet) a lot recently as I recalibrate myself.

    I’ve been thinking about writing and publishing this morning, and how they aren’t the same thing. How you can love one and never do the other, or do the latter but lose the joy in the former. It’s so important to continually re-center what really matters to you in this industry.
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    Feb 22

    The cover of the Brazilian edition of my second book is here! And it's just as beautiful as the first. Thank you editoramorrobranco for bringing THE SHIP BEYOND TIME to Brazil! Many…

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  18. Retweeted
    Feb 20

    NEWS: Met with about S4 They made clear that they love the show, love how it serves underrepresented audiences, love its heart & humor, but...we need more viewers. They'll decide soon. I wish I felt more confident WHAT CAN YOU DO? Tell friends to watch!

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  19. Feb 21

    Me to friends: Eat healthy, okay? Get enough sleep, my dear! Time to take a break! Me when it comes to myself: *scarfs down whole sleeve of Thin Mints* *pinches self to stay awake* *glares down blank page*

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    Feb 21

    JUST IN: The Indiana Senate passed an amended hate crimes bill in a 39-10 vote. The bill will now go to the House of Representatives. Today waas also the day the Ayoubi family held a funeral for Mustafa.

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    Feb 21

    I've studied and reported on the intersection of road rage and anti-Muslim hate for the last year. In my previous story, I talked to 30 hijabi women who encountered racial slurs on the road. Now a Muslim man is dead. A terrifying pattern is emerging.

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