Lisa Marie Simmons

Thank you for the spin @movingtrainmedia.bsky.social So pleased to be in such luminous company. ✊🏾✨

Honored to wake up to this. Deep gratitude to @greenleftonline.bsky.social for naming NoteSpeak (In a Word). We’re in such powerful company, standing with artists who turn art into resistance and make music that pushes back, & presses forward. ✊🏾🎶 #protestsongs

If you’ve been feeling the weight but struggling to translate it into strategy, start here. Sherrilyn Ifill connects protest, litigation, impeachment, and global pressure with her trademark clarity and precision.

Target, stop cooperating with ICE The same week that federal ICE agents murdered Renee Good in Minneapolis, they kidnapped two U.S. citizens from a Target store in Richfield and filmed propaganda in a store in St. Paul. Target is Minn...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Target, stop cooperating with ICE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/targ...

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock?

Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

The best read I've come upon in some time. Prescient? One can hope! The irony of sharing it here is not lost on me! @noemamag.com The Last Days Of Social Media #topshelf www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

Awww it was so good to see you!! 🤎

80 years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons still cast a long shadow over the world. Cultural leaders have a leading role to play in creating a critical mass of public demand for change.

They are stepping up. 🧵 #CultureAgainstNukes #NukeSky

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Gran
braided
lore into
each line of cornrows
over home a #braid is a plait
and my trumpet soul is filled with locs of nappy love

~ regina harris baiocchi 🪮
#Fibonacci #haikufeels

✨ CARNEGIE HALL, BABY—WHAA?! ✨
I fell hard for Charu’s Rags and Ragas the moment I heard it,
then she heard NoteSpeak 12 and came to our NYC show. Now we’re sharing the stage, plus debuting a new track from the upcoming NoteSpeak (In a Word) (Sept @ropeadope99.bsky.social )Love fest vibes #jazzsky

@sifill.bsky.social ‘s powerful take on this moment continues to buoy and galvanize me! There is nothing better than presenting brilliant friends to one another’s work. YOU are a beacon Clare! ✨

"We are living in the time when small men and women rule. Our only hope is to become bigger ourselves." Character isn’t built in crisis; it’s revealed. Sherrilyn Ifill once more holds up a mirror to who we are and who we refuse to be. Her work continues to be required reading and good medicine.

Absolutely abominable.

Yes, these times…Let’s speak soon! 🤎

Thank you 👑 Regina! You are unfailingly kind!🤎🤎🤎🤎

Hello 🙋🏾‍♀️ Fellow writer/poet here. I found you via your Medium essay! Great to be connected!

Long before many of us could see the cracks,
@sifill.bsky.social was already naming the fault lines. Read her. She writes with the kind of unflinching foresight that history will thank, but we must act on now.

Marie Claire Italia mi ha chiesto di scrivere una lettera alla Pace
Oggi in edicola il numero con ciò che ho scritto

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Hey #writingcommunity Please give a warm welcome to the absolutely splendid and brilliantly talented @storyclare.bsky.social Follow her for a much-needed dose of good medicine! 🤎🤎🤎

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Me on a soffa looking up at a ceiling full of balloons with streamers hanging from them

Some days feel like Ross Gay wrote them. sitting in a room full of balloons, wondering which one carries my next delight. Happiest 2025 creating #community. Perfect read for 2025? 👉🏾 The Book of Delights #delight

Photo session featuring artwork from my series Minimal Accident.

A powerful artist and activist. Just everything about this woman and her poetry was good and clean and straight truth. She pushed us. She’d cut you and then smile to show that she’d done it with love.
Rest in Peace and Power Nikki Giovanni.

Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

You gorgeous woman! I wanna be like YOU!🤎🤎🤎🤎