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Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/

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23.02.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even better, there's a magnificent book by @imaniperry.bsky.social that goes through the history of Lift Every Voice

btw, it was the Black National Anthem before the Star Spangled Banner was America's National Anthem

01.02.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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02.02.2026 04:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s not me

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Happy Birthday, Antonio Gramsci! He was born on this day in Sardinia in 1891. His prison writing inspired the @conjuncture.bsky.social podcast that @cheatherton.bsky.social and I produced for last 5 years. You can check out our previous interviews here: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-...

22.01.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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05.01.2026 11:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Public Picks 2025 - Public Books What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

For Public Picks, Global Black History editor @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social recs @imaniperry.bsky.social's "Black in Blues," Nicholas Boggs's "Baldwin: A Love Story," Joycelyn Longdon's "Natural Connection" & @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's "The House Archives Built."

20.12.2025 23:55 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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08.12.2025 03:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not so far, but I retained copyright and I would love to update it and have it put in print.

04.12.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

03.12.2025 04:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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03.12.2025 04:36 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Electric Lit’s Best Nonfiction of 2025 - Electric Literature Books by Edgar Gomez, Maris Kreizman, and Zefyr Lisowski are among the year's most celebrated nonfiction

Phenomenal list of 2025 nonfiction - Edgar Gomez, Caro de Robertis, Melissa Febos, Yiyun Li, Imani Perry, Andrea Long Chu and so many more greats! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...

28.11.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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BOMB Magazine | DΓ©Lana R.A. Dameron by Jessica Lynne Everyday experiences of Southern Black life.

This anvil of grief.

Without funerary activities, they say, you live in constant disbelief
your loved one is gone. You seek the Light, if only for a moment, to borrow
so you don’t follow Thomas to the bridge edge, seeking relief

frβ€”When Mama died, I lost my air
DΓ©Lana R. A. Dameron
bit.ly/440NBmP

25.06.2025 12:14 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club): Fiction Fiction

DΓ©Lana R. A. Dameron was a brilliant poet & fiction writer about my age that I was in community with who has suddenly passed which is earth shattering. This is her acclaimed novel. @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
bookshop.org/p/books/redw...

30.11.2025 16:38 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

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25.11.2025 04:31 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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25.11.2025 04:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Octavia Butler LOA LIVE event on 11/24 with Imani Perry and Tananarive Due

Octavia Butler LOA LIVE event on 11/24 with Imani Perry and Tananarive Due

Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...

21.11.2025 15:02 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 15
The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler, with Imani Perry and Tananarive Due. A free LOA LIVE program on 11/24. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radical-imagination-of-octavia-e-butler-registration-1967684174334?aff=threads

The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler, with Imani Perry and Tananarive Due. A free LOA LIVE program on 11/24. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radical-imagination-of-octavia-e-butler-registration-1967684174334?aff=threads

On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...

11.11.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
Picture of book When Trees Testify with text that reads:

"A beautiful journey through the imagination and intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writers. Montgomery is an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart and knowledge to bear on the world around us, offering deep illumination and abundant wisdom."

-Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America

Picture of book When Trees Testify with text that reads: "A beautiful journey through the imagination and intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writers. Montgomery is an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart and knowledge to bear on the world around us, offering deep illumination and abundant wisdom." -Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America

THE @imaniperry.bsky.social on When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social):
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...

14.11.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Horrifying reminders of why one’s politics should never be thought of in binary terms regardless of the system we have.

10.11.2025 00:25 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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28.10.2025 09:05 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Charleston Literary Festival: Black in Blues In Black in Blues, cultural critic and MacArthur fellow Imani Perry joins forces with novelist and historian Dolen Perkins-Valdez to craft an extraordinary medi

@abcnews4.com Dissapointing AI generated and FALSE article published on your site: abcnews4.com/lowcountry-l...

17.10.2025 20:07 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It was lovely meeting you

30.09.2025 15:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the things I keep thinking is that he is manipulating white Americans (bigotry is an easy tool of distraction) while robbing them too.

24.08.2025 17:11 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

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24.08.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I listen to audio recordings of my loved ones who have died. It feels like prayer to me. I cry but I also smile. They really were here, with me. What a blessing.

24.08.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜An attack on democracy itself’: Trump wants museums to shut up about slavery Princeton’s Eddie Glaude describes Donald Trump’s efforts to remove exhibits on slavery from Smithsonian museums as an β€œan all-out assault on what made my mom and dad and their grandparents possible.” In addition to this being an attack against the Black community, Harvard University professor Imani Perry says it’s also an attack on β€œdeeply democratic knowledge” and β€œtherefore an attack on democracy itself.”

β€œWhy is it the case that whenever they attack β€˜wokeness,’ they attack our story?” @esglaude.bsky.social‬ asks in response to Trump’s complaints that the Smithsonian Institution overemphasizes slavery. β€œWe cannot become passive participants in this destruction,” warns @imaniperry.bsky.social‬.

23.08.2025 18:51 πŸ‘ 218 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 2
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This Groundbreaking Artist Vanished. A Decade of Sleuthing Reveals Her Greatness.

New from me β€” on Mavis Pusey, her survey show open now at ICA Philadelphia (coming next to the Hammer in LA and Studio Museum in NYC) β€” and the decade of curatorial sleuthing to locate her artworks and fill out her story.

GIFT LINK

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/a...

19.07.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

He lost his wallet, which had his green card, and made an appointment in Philly to replace it. There he was handcuffed & taken away with no explanation. β€œHis wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter.” He’s 82.

19.07.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 828 πŸ” 452 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 20
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Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.

Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.

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