JL | Blackness/Horror/Writing

If you rescue worms from the sidewalk…I think we can be friends 🪱🪱🪱 (Never beating the weird kid allegations, I fear)
#BlackWriters #HorrorWriters

Weird things I Googled this week as a horror writer:
• Animal parts used in pharmaceuticals
• Growth hormones in humans + skin
• Human skin is closest to what animal
• Frog byproducts in pharmaceuticals
• Medication used to regenerate skin
• What is mRNA
• Flavanoids
#BlackWriters #HorrorSky

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to the Black Southern grandmas, aunties, godmothers, and candy ladies who take care of the neighborhood kids. I got to grow up next to my godmother, Rosa, and I’m forever grateful for that.

Dre’s relationships with women are the backbone of this series, and so much more interesting and formative than her kills. I’m really excited to think and write more about it! 🐝 🔪

Rewatching “Swarm” for March’s blog. I love it even more this time around.
And for Women’s History Month, this show reminds us that Black women deserve nuance and complexity, on- and off-screen.
#BlackWriters #HorrorSky #BlackHorror #WomensHistoryMonth

Do you like Black, queer, Southern horror fiction? If you do, you might enjoy this short story I wrote! I love scaring people, so if it frightened you..let me know 😈
#BlackWriters #WriterSky

I’m OBSESSED with whoever at the New Orleans Times-Picayune chose this photo of #KristiNoem for the *front page* of today’s paper #Politics

I am always the second one, even when I’m also somehow the first. (Why does this sound like a riddle from The Hobbit?)
#WriterSky

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From a multiple SA survivor: you DO NOT have to forgive anybody if you don’t want to. You don’t have to forgive anybody in order to heal. And telling people “forgiveness is the only way to move on” is shitty and not okay. Much love to my survivor siblings, today and always. 🖤

It gets more tempting every day 😅

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I’m one chronic pain flare away from a throat tattoo
#Fibromyalgia

BH Bite: Jim Crow’s Legacy at the BAFTAs As you’ve heard by now, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo — two prominent, accomplished Black actors most recently known for their…

This is how I saw Jim Crow etiquette showing up at the BAFTAs ceremony. Let me know what y’all think!
#Sinners #BAFTAs #BlackWriters

Made it to 4,500 words today 💅🏽 Now let’s see if I can keep the momentum up 😅
#BlackWriters #HorrorWriters #HorrorSky

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I got to 3,000 words on my new story this morning! This is the longest project I’ve attempted and I’m excitedddddddd!
#BlackWriters #BlackHorror #HorrrorWriter

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There’s absolutely no good reason to use ChatGPT or any generative AI, especially if you’re a writer. It does too much harm to our communities. You should see these companies as enemies and threats. Sorry not sorry.
#ChatGPT #BlackWriters

This picture of Yvette is how I feel sinking my teeth into a Haydel’s king cake
#NewOrleans #MardiGras #BlackWriters

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I’m tired of healthy coping mechanisms. I want 3 giant daiquiris and a Level 10 crash out.
#MentallyIll #Unhinged

Louisiana bayou witch sun / goblin rising / fairy moon
#BlackWriters #BlackAndQueer

“Familias Unidas en Acción employs a three-pronged approach to achieve its mission through campaigning, popular education programs, and direct aid.“ And the default language on their website is Spanish 💜

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If you thought Liam Canejo Ramos was the kid in the halftime show, you have to donate to a local immigrant rights group. I make the rules now.

Familias Unidas en Acción in New Orleans is a great place to start.

I swear to GOD, y’all.

#SuperBowl #BadBunny #ImmigrantRights

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Tell me why my mom just called a squirrel a hussy for eating from her bird feeder 😭
#BlackMoms #BlackSky

Evil Boredom is how I get my side quests and some of my unhinged story ideas 🔪
#BlackWriters #WriterSky #BlackHorror

SO…NIGHTTIDE IS GROWING, AND I’M REALLY PROUD OF IT NightTide is growing -intentionally. This piece introduces our evolving staff structure, why we chose depth over news churn, and how NightTide has become a home for horror criticism, identity, and …

NightTide is growing. 🖤
I wrote about why we chose depth over news churn, how the magazine has evolved, and why NightTide is becoming a home for long-form horror criticism, identity, and thought leadership.
Proud of this team. Proud of this work.
Welcome home. 👻
nighttidemag.com/2026/02/02/h...

Living here is like living in a Marvel movie. Your car is collateral damage and you’re left wondering how tf to explain the situation to the insurance company.
~ With love, a native New Orleanian 🤦🏽‍♀️
#NewOrleans #BlackWriters

A short story I wrote got published today!!! I’d love for y’all to read it if you’re in the mood for something scary (tw, though, for anti-Black racism). And shouout to Harriet’s House Magazine for giving me a shot and being amazing to work with 🖤
#BlackWriters #BlackHorror #HorrorSky #HorrorWriters

They Collaborated on an Oscar-Nominated Film — Then Got Thrown Into Solitary The incarcerated men who produced footage for The Alabama Solution were abruptly transferred to solitary this month.

“The incarcerated men who produced footage for The Alabama Solution were abruptly transferred to solitary this month.”
#MassIncarceration #PrisonAbolition

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All my homies hate c0ps/🧊, AI & J K Rowling 💅🏽 #BlackWriters

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Real horror lovers know that the genre is historically political and subversive. Real horror lovers protect their communities and neighbors. Real horror lovers hate fascism. #ICE #BlackHorror #HorrorSky

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Gotta say, I’m a huge fan of whatever’s wrong with me 🥀
#BlackWriters #WriterSky #HorrorWriters

5 takeaways from the 2026 Oscar nominations, where 'Sinners' made history Sinners landed a record number of nods, while Avatar: Fire and Ash and Wicked: For Good fell short of their franchise predecessors.

“Before this year, no movie had ever gotten more than 14 Oscar nominations. Three films — All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land — shared the top spot. This year, Ryan Coogler's brilliant vampire story Sinners bested that by two, landing 16 nominations.”
I LOVE US 🖤🖤🖤🖤
#Sinners #BlackHorror #Horror