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@nkjemisin

Award-winning bestselling SFF writer & reviewer. I use robust autoblockers due to harassment. They catch some friendlies. Unavoidable; sorry. She/her.

Joined December 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Jun 2021

    Sssssso, folks have been asking me for updates on the Broken Earth tv/film adaptation for a while, and I haven't been able to say anything... because a lot's been happening. But at last, I can share:

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    Electronic Arts asks their potential sensitivity readers to do 700-word sensitivity read samples for free without even a guaranteed project 🙃 I said no and they said it is their standard business protocol because not all the work they receive is high quality 🙃

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    May 18

    George W. Bush didn't do a Freudian slip. He did a Freudian Confession.

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    May 19

    For Mental Health Awareness Month, join panelists , , and moderator to discuss the issue of burnout in the publishing industry. Date: 5/20 Time: 12-1 PM EST Register here:

    Banner for People Of Color In Publishing Burn Out Panel. Text Readers people of color in publishing presents: a conversation about burnout in the publishing industry. Virtual Panel, Zoom, Friday 5/20 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST. FAYE BI, Director Of Publicity at  Bloomsbury Children's Books. Shelly Romero, Lead Editor at Cake Creative. Ely Mellet, Designer at Lee And Low Books. Moderated By Leila Siddiqui, POC In Pub Communications & Events Subcommittee Member, Author Of House Of Glass Hearts, And Senior Manager Of Digital Strategy At DK. Shows People Of Color In Publishing Logo.
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    It's 2021 and Apple vs windows is still going strong

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  6. May 19

    And yeah, I know we've always been bad. It's worse lately tho.

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  7. May 19

    What an utterly grotesque "nation" we are now.

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    May 17

    Let’s talk about what we’re *actually* demanding of lactating people when we tell them they should “just breastfeed”:

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    May 17

    “White replacement theory” says it all in the last word: theory. Meanwhile we had “indigenous replacement practice.” It happened. But indigenous folks aren’t shooting up white churches and Whole Foods.

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    May 17

    My former employer didn’t just decimate Tudum. Layoffs are also targeting social channels designed to bring marginalized viewers into the fold (Strong Black Lead, Golden, Most, Con Todo, etc.) There’s a deeper story here. I hope we’re all paying attention.

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    May 17

    Jordan Peterson is quitting Twitter because he tried to fat shame a cover model and his mentions got too hot to handle. lmaooo what a hero

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  12. May 17

    Really miss the days when delivery people would *ring* the doorbell instead of calling me while they stand right next to the doorbell, particularly when the delivery instructions say "do not call, just ring doorbell." 🙃

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    May 17

    Republicans have spent $4.5 million dollars on ads vilifying trans people in 2022. Democrats have not spent a dime in opposition.

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    May 16

    For obvious self-interested reasons, I am once again thinking about how fucked it is that labor union staff are explicitly excluded from nonprofit student loan forgiveness, while someone who works for the Michael Bloomberg Foundation would qualify

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    NEW: Rep. , D-DC, has introduced a House bill that would ban the Census Bureau from adding decennial census questions about a person's citizenship, nationality or immigration status

    A BILL To amend title 13, United States Code, to prohibit the use of questions on citizenship, nationality, or immigration status in any decennial census, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ensuring Full Partici5 pation in the Census Act of 2022’’.
    SEC. 2. PROHIBITING CENSUS QUESTIONS ON CITIZENSHIP, NATIONALITY, OR IMMIGRATION STATUS.  Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-section (h); and (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following: ‘‘(g)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a questionnaire or survey used to carry out, or in connection with, any decennial census of population may not include any question regarding citizenship, nationality, or immigration status of the respondent, any family member of the respondent, or any individual living in the respondent’s household. ‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the survey, conducted by the Secretary, commonly referred to as the ‘American Community Survey’.’’.
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    May 17

    In the days since the Buffalo shooting, organizers say a deeper conversation is needed on the issues that have plagued Buffalo for decades, including redlining and racial segregation.

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    May 17

    There are now 75 unionized Starbucks stores across the country. There will be even more pending NLRB review. It hasn’t even been nine months since launched.

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    The ecstasy people have over this messaging is... something Pete's explainer here basically boils down to "when babies are starving, the important thing is to understand there's nothing we can do and you just have to let them die"

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    If the political establishment acknowledges that the Republican Party has mainstreamed white supremacist violence, what does it say about white society that Republicans have such strong support?

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    If the political establishment acknowledges that the Republican Party has mainstreamed white supremacist violence, what then is the function of “bipartisanship”?

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  21. May 17

    Here's the segment I did for the BBC's "In the Studio" podcast a few weeks back!

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