Shingai Njeri Kagunda
@Shingaibelike
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🌈🇰🇪 Swahili Sea Citizen dreaming of revolution, #Ignyte WINNER, Clarion grad bcuz Octavia Butler ✨ @clarionghosts @Voodoonauts co-founder 🚀 @PodCastle_org
Nairobi
Joined January 2011
My novelette is out today and there are some poets I have to say thank you to for returning me back to words. First June Jordan, who asked the question, "What shall we do, we who did not die?"
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Enjoy "We Who Will Not Die," by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, our final novelette of 2024. Read the story on our site or grab the ebook via sign-up.
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Just so we're clear, Israel is now the first state to have an ethnicity-based death penalty since Nazi Germany.
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Hi, Afro feminists we are creating a space for knowledge production, and we'd really like for you to join us. Apply here ✨
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In the Afro-Feminist literary space, decolonial theory is important, and analysis of our colonial history is necessary in understanding the extent to which colonial and imperial systems exacerbate...
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What you need? We got you. I Love Boosters In theaters May 22nd.
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The book:
For the first time, a series of Toni Morrison's Princeton lectures has been compiled into a book. Now, readers can engage with Morrison, not only through the lens of her fiction or essays, but through her role as a teacher.
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Own It. Earn It. 123 countries at the UN have just taken a vote to recognise the transatlantic slave trade as one of the gravest crimes against humanity. Yet, much of Europe abstained. The Africa–Europe relationship must evolve from avoidance to acknowledgement. Africa does not
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There is something beautiful about having long term friends that have witnessed multiple versions of you and loved you unconditionally through each version
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Remembering author, documenatarian, activist, and professor Toni Cade Bambara on her 87th birthday
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This interview with Mumia Abu Jamal on Frantz Fanon is not to be missed. https://t.co/xdUfLVAt8b
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the most influential piece of writing wisdom for me is ursula k. le guin, who wrote a dozen books about guys sailing, saying: “Yeah idk, i've never been in a boat. I was just sort of guessing”
this is how fantasy should operate. the physical/temporal feel unreal but are grounded by the humanity. I think too often fantasy authors opt for the reverse
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If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting for a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it has more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.
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"you're so hard to please" I'm literally impressed by the way the sun shines through trees
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Just found out that in 2021, the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it. The United States and Israel.
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The actual queer agenda
btw, you can still be friends with someone you were once in love with.
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Please support our queer and trans kin and loved ones in the subcontinent right now! All that they have fought for over the past decades is about to be legally invalidated and, furthermore, criminalized!
Protests continue across the country against the (anti) Transgender Rights Bill introduced by the BJP government! #NoGoingBack The community is united to #RejectTransBill2026 ✊🏽🏳️⚧️
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criminal lack of women in the replies considering who wrote the three greatest sci fi books of all time
What’s the best sci-fi you’ve ever read not named Dune, Red Rising or Sun Eater?
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— mother of the civil rights movement, ella baker at the puerto rico solidarity rally, 1974. ✊🏾🇵🇷 “you & i cannot be free in america— or anywhere else where there is capitalism & imperialism..”
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A young woman holds her pet dik-dik in Mombassa, Kenya. Photographed by Underwood and Underwood, 1909. National Geographic.
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I’ve been developing a black queer vampire film since 2018 & completed a first draft last summer. Trust, we going up for bisexual transsexual gay sapphic lesbian queer ass black vampires who have fangs and like a little blood sometimes 🫱🏿🫲🏾
and if anything hopefully the discourse can influence future black filmmakers to do the genre the justice it deserves bc it definitely is queer 🤷🏾♂️
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