DarkLiterata iykyk

@darkliterata.bsky.social

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she/they i read slowly & often 📚 • queer black librarian 🏳️‍🌈 • anti-oppression educator ✊🏾 • kidlit scholar, reviewer, guide author 🤓 • high key trekkie 🖖🏾

Grey and white cover image for Critical Race Theory in LIS: Challenging White Supremacy in Libraries, edited by Mónica Colón-Aguirre, Nicole A. Cooke, Aisha M. Johnson, and Anastasia M. Collins
GIF of Michael from The Good Place saying "Look, there are plenty of awful people and thoughtless jerks,..."
Screenshot of Tumblr post from user PossessesNightShift: "maybe if that united healthcare shooter knocks out 33 more CEOs he'll be up to 34 felonies and he can run for president..."
Twitter post by @tinyorc: "Money can't buy happiness" means "the mindless accumulation of excess wealth ultimately leads to diminishing returns on happiness." It does not mean "poor people should learn to be content without basic necessities or financial security."
A woman in a white dress holds up a lit white candle. Her expression is solemn with eyes closed. A blue, pink, and white cloud billows up from her candle's flame. She is surrounded by pink and blue flowers, a peace symbol, other hands (white, pink, and blue) also raising white candles, and the Transgender Flag. Words around her say "Transgender Day of Remembrance" and "End the Violence."
A meme with a European Renaissance-style Jesus Christ holding a baby and blessing a kneeling woman, who is hiding her face in her hands. Jesus is captioned: "Me at 06:00 a.m." The shining light of blessing is captioned: "'You are allowed to sleep for 15 more minutes'" The kneeling woman is captioned: "Me at 06:00 a.m."
Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies: "Contemplation: How does silence feel to you in this season? Like a friend? A risk? A darkness? Why do you think this is? How do you distinguish a silence that is oppressive from that which is liberating? What emotions, hungers, or fears in you need a voice in this season? What other noises tend to drown them out?"
Instagram deck from @BlackLiturgies: "For when you can no longer hear yourself" "On silence and staying human"
Screenshot of a Tumblr thread. The original post is an image of a happy Dragonite and several other Pokémon sitting in a small river. Off to the right, a Pikachu appears to be struggling in the water. A caption describing the happy Dragonite reads: "unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing." Reply from user i-am-the-fourth-heat: "pikachu is drowning" Reply from user colourofthekites: "This ain't about him"
Screenshot of a Tumblr post and reply: serial-unaliver: "it's your right as a pedestrian to cross the street whenever you feel like it " massachusetts-official: "Official Post of Massachusetts
Showing Up & Showing Out: A Look Into Digital Black Girlhood in Contemporary Times Join the Global Black Studies program for a lecture by Dr. Kay Coghill on Digital Black Girlhood on November 18th at 5:00 pm in Hunter Library 186. November 18th, 2024 5:00 pm Location: Hunter Library 186 Western Carolina University For more information, please contact Jazmyne Baylor jbaylor@wcu.edu.
Instagram post from @BlackLiturgies: "No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep." -Zora Neale Hurston