Winifred Burton Updates

Winifred Burton Updates

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Writer of Magical Black Girls Burning Shit Down.
Voodoonauts Fellow '22. Hurston Wright Speculative Fellow '23. She/Her. AuthorWinifred, no matter where you are, no matter how far.

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Life has been such that I *get* her now.

she died doing what she loved- trying to get abducted

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she died doing what she loved- trying to get abducted

she died doing what she loved- waving at wild animals

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Today was great. We fed so many people today in Tampa, connected with families and are working to build more community run gardens in people's spaces. The city isn't going to help its people - the people will help themselves!

He looked at that owl like Evan Peters looks at everything and I almost called PETA.

Not Like Us music video finally dropped.

Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Usyoutu.be Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” Directed by Dave Free & Kendrick Lamar Production Company: pgLang / project3 Executive Producers: Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free Producers: Sam Canter, Jack Begert, Jamie Rabineau, Cornell Brown, Anthony Saleh, Jared Heinke Associate Producer: Charm La’Donna Director of Photography: Xiaolong Liu 1st AD Los Angeles: Michael Pierrard 1st AD Compton: Kenneth Taylor Production Designer: Freyja Bardell Choreographer: Charm La’Donna Wardrobe Department Head: Karizza Sanchez KL Stylist: Taylor McNeill Talent Stylist: Jessica Willis Talent Stylist: Telsha Anderson-Boone Stunts: Craig Jensen Talent Grooming: Emily Cheng Talent Hairstylist: Flipper Moore Barber: Chris Donato Smith Cast HMU: Camille Ariane Location Manager: Derek Tramont Editor: Chaz Smedley Colorist: Mikey Rossiter VFX: Karen Arakelian Additional VFX: Sunset Edit, SUPERCONTINENT Sound Design: Matt Yocum Commissioner: Michelle An #KendrickLamar #NotLikeUs http://vevo.ly/NcHpoC

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun deprived. Might fuck around and take a nap though. That'll show everyone.

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doing my part to keep the tech bad at identifying Black people lol

really appreciate that it was easy to opt out of TSA facial recognition for ID verification

Y'all I just met a newborn taller than me and I am DEVASTATED.

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love seeing an artist of color speak frankly about a grievance only to watch people completely miss the point and be really fucking weird about it

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Unfortunately, I have met a non-zero number of cis men who can recite their progressive lines exquisitely and with real conviction. And they seem to be living their values. But then they find themselves in a position of power over a young woman they find attractive. And yes, well.

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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*stares in Negress*

Now to take a big sip of my coffee and read about the history of voter disenfranchisement

For anyone who was wondering, it's not about what Mrs 44 wants, it's what people feel they are owed.

"I'm going to refer people to you now!" - Someone who doesn't know I'm growing my side hustle into my main. Me, because it's both bad strategy and ethics to tell them that right now: 😭

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"The black trees slashed through the sunlight, more bared fangs than a forest, and just deep enough within them to be lost..." New fiction: "Open Them If You Don't Believe Me" by K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/mead-brew...

Open Them If You Don’t Believe Me | matchbookwww.matchbooklitmag.com

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Even where sex work is legalised, workers may face barriers to accessing healthcare. Once a worker falls outside of the strict criteria needed to gain legal working status, they are criminalised and face poorer health outcomes. globalhealthnow.org/2024-05/amst...

Amsterdam’s Struggle to Improve Sex Worker Healthglobalhealthnow.org A web of immigration and labor policies—and stigma—make it difficult for some sex workers to access the health care they need.

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all of this, everything all of us know, everything any of us have ever known, all the good and the bad, it belongs to us. don’t give it to them. make them fight us for it down to the last goddamn they/them. we will never get it back if we lose.

these fucking fascists were stronger in 2020 that they are now and they are only getting stronger now because columnists in the least representative cities in america are both bored and lazy. break these fuckers.

"Whatever you are afraid to do, do it immediately. Taking risks will give you the best rewards in life." -Sheila Williams I agree with Ms. Millie but the shenanigans I've gotten up to. I've got 5 years to make my 50s less chaotic but I'll probably end up (finally) joining a circus instead.

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Doing things--finding your team, finding your community--is magical. The feeling of helplessness is there to remind you to find your tiny corner of the world where you have that, where you can pitch in and do something.

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look at the string beans I grew! harvested what I can the night before I leave town 🌱

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Stop giving money to Planned Parenthood to buy marketing, give it to grassroots abortion funds.

I just saw on Twitter that Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation are cutting funding nationally for abortion funds. If you can spare it, set up a recurring donation to your local abortion fund or the National Network of Abortion Funds at abortionfunds.org

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“To defend our lives and to defend the planet, we will need resilient networks of people who are more invested in each other and our collective survival than they are in the systems that would destroy us. . . “ Clear-eyed, practical, actionable advice for dark times.

Some thoughts on how to navigate this moment.

Take a Deep Breath and Think About What You Need to Doorganizingmythoughts.org How powerful will we choose to become as the world falls down and what will we have the potential to build?

Celebrating today's short story rejection with my next round of pain meds.

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here it is. it was written before 2020 and updated then: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/06/06/2...

26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets (June 2020 update)disabilityvisibilityproject.com 26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets. (a list) June 2020 updates Contributors Ejeris Dixon, Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, Deesha …

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Tomorrow me and @andreahairston.bsky.social discuss Octavia Butler's gigantic influence on our work for Sistah SciFi: sistahscifi.com/pages/events

Eventssistahscifi.com Sistah Scifi is the first Black owned bookstore focused on Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Science Fiction, and Fantasy in the United States.

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I'm gonna up this because that Mississippi story got some of blue sky folks talking that dumb shit.

"If you are Black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you are South of the Canadian border, you are South.” Minister Malcolm El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Omowale ( respect to the First Nations and Afro Canadians not named Aubrey)

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Makes my skin crawl that these people have to spend the twilight of their lives being denied justice by people who weren’t even alive when they were brutalized and that what were supposed to be the best years of their lives was stained by an overt rejection of justice.

Last known survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre challenge Oklahoma high court decision

Last known survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre challenge Oklahoma high court decisionapnews.com The last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to reconsider the case they dismissed last month.

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Like digital ARC’s? THE RISE OF ISSA IGWE is on Netgalley and Edelweiss 🧟‍♀️Zombie Schoolgirls 😽Mood Altering Kittens ⏰ Time Travel 🧜🏾‍♀️Sinister Sirens Perfect for fans of Goosebumps! Drop in my DM’s if you run into issues tinyurl.com/yc8986nb or tinyurl.com/3ptmxz9r

I don't claim to be clairvoyant, but backing away from people who talk sideways to BW like it's normal has never failed me. Don't matter if I even like her.

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Nope. Estate-approved or not, set it on fire. 😡

“The company said it made deals with the estates of the actors whose voices are being used, but did not share details about compensation.”

AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you’ll soon be able to hear her rendition of the children’s novel that inspired the movie nonethel...