Inda Lauryn

Inda Lauryn

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Writer, editor, podcaster, Black feminist, womanist, witch/pagan/heathen, music curator, smartass.
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"...ocean women...hold their breath for up to three minutes while plunging 10 meters underwater... the oldest was more than 90." What does your Nana do for fun? www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/07/hyun...

The Breathless Grit and Determination of South Korea’s Iconic Female Divers Are Captured in Life-Size Portraits by Hyung S. Kim — Colossalwww.thisiscolossal.com Between 2012 and 2014, Seoul-based photographer Hyung S. Kim frequently visited Jeju Island, which lies off the southern coast of South Korea, to document the impressive women carrying on a centuries-...

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Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social is open to submissions. Pays for poetry, short fiction, nonfiction. 2.5-8k wds. Not as interested in genre fiction. Unpublished work only. Deadline: July 27, 2024. Thx @authorsguild.bsky.social for heads-up. virginiaquarterlyreview.submittable.com/submit

Virginia Quarterly Reviewvirginiaquarterlyreview.submittable.com Editorial PhilosophyVQR strives to publish the best writing we can find. While we have a long history of publishing accomplished and award-winning authors, we also seek and support emerging writers. A...

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Boiling point of water dropped below 100C during Storm Ciarán, study finds

Boiling point of water dropped below 100C during Storm Ciarán, study findswww.theguardian.com Recordbreaking low pressure due to extreme weather meant water was boiling at 98C in Reading on day of storm

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Romanian court reinstates influencer Andrew Tate's travel ban

Romanian court reinstates influencer Andrew Tate's travel banwww.reuters.com Internet personality Andrew Tate will not be able to leave Romania while awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking after a Romanian court of appeal on Tuesday overturned a previous ruling.

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At least 70 people killed in a militia attack in western Congo

At least 70 people killed in a militia attack in western Congoapnews.com Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say at least 70 people, including nine soldiers and a soldier’s wife, were killed on Saturday when armed men attacked a village in the west of the country.

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'Hellishly hot' southern Europe bakes under heat wave as temperatures top 104F

'Hellishly hot' southern Europe bakes under heat wave as temperatures top 104Fapnews.com The Italian health ministry has placed 12 cities under the most severe heat warning as a wave of hot air from Africa is baking southern Europe.

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Kenya police to detain for 30 days a man arrested after discovery of dismembered bodies of women

Kenya police to detain for 30 days a man arrested after discovery of dismembered bodies of womenapnews.com A court in Kenya has allowed police to detain for 30 days a man suspected of killing and dismembering women then dumping them in a flooded quarry, as investigations continue.

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Storms with likely tornadoes slap the Chicago area. Thousands lack power, and 1 is dead

Storms with likely tornadoes slap the Chicago area. Thousands lack power, and 1 is deadapnews.com Storms with tornadoes blew through Iowa, Illinois — including Chicago — and Indiana, downing trees and power lines.

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Hackers claim Disney data theft in protest against AI-generated artwork

Hackers claim Disney data theft in protest against AI-generated artworkwww.theguardian.com NullBulge group said it was leaking files from Disney’s internal Slack channel to ‘protect artists’ rights’

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Six people, including two Vietnamese Americans, have been found dead inside a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok, with Thai police exploring the possibility that they were poisoned.

Six people found dead in luxury Thai hotel, with police exploring possible poisoning | CNNcnn.it Six people, including two Vietnamese Americans, have been found dead inside a room at a Grand Hyatt hotel in central Bangkok, where they had been staying.

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Como says alleged 'Jackie Chan' comment in game versus Wolves was not intended to be derogatory

Como says alleged 'Jackie Chan' comment in game versus Wolves was not intended to be derogatoryapnews.com Italian soccer team Como has defended a player who allegedly said Wolves’ South Korean forward Hee Chan Hwang “thinks he’s Jackie Chan” during a preseason game on Monday.

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NEWS: @gibsonguitar Gives Announce Second Sister Rosetta Tharpe Music Scholarship, by @BigPaulSloDragn ghostcultmag.com/gibson-gives...

Gibson Gives Announce Second Sister Rosetta Tharpe Music Scholarship - Ghost Cult Magazineghostcultmag.com Gibson has announced its second annual Gibson Gives Sister Rosetta Tharpe music scholarship awards. Administered by the Arkansas Art Academy, this time it

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so the dude with full AK-47, ski mask, ammo, etc., gets arrested after approaching the RNC, but an unhoused Black man well away from even the vehicle perimeter for the RNC, all the way across a major highway, gets shot to death by five cops. got it.

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Out-of-state officers shot and killed a man wielding two knives blocks away from the RNC, police say

Out-of-state officers shot and killed a man wielding two knives blocks away from the RNC, police sayapnews.com Milwaukee's police chief says five Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention shot at a man who was wielding two knives near the convention, killing him.

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⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️ presents “Towards Tenderness,” a free, virtual workshop with Brittany Rogers this Friday, July 19 at 12 PM EST. Learn more and register at the link in our bio!

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just heard submissions are open for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law if folks are interested! they're specifically soliciting scholarly articles about the rights of queer kids

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He was extrajudicially killed during a routine pullover following his 2nd amendment rights and informing the them that he legally possessed a gun and the officer was rapidly acquitted and these are the kinds of things that go through my brain when people talk down to me about saving us from fascism.

Happy Birthday to Philando Castile today & rest in power. This graphic is from Color of Change. 🕊️ Alt4me

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Winifred Burton Updates

Ran out of room in the alt text so I'm posting twice.

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Found it. Not linking to the article itself for reasons, only sharing at all so that the rest of the brilliant and beautiful Black femmes on the globe understand it's really not a them problem.

I remember an article in the Guardian about an upper middle class BW in the UK who paid for a high class matchmaking service. IIRC they had to refund the fees because all they had to offer her was racism or incompatability.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Mother nature is up there playing “not like us” on repeat.

Drake's Toronto home 'The Embassy' hit by floods

Drake's Toronto home 'The Embassy' hit by floodswww.bbc.com The Canadian rapper joked on Instagram that the rushing floodwaters "better be espresso martini".

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‘Very high’ COVID levels detected in 7 states, including Nevadawww.yahoo.com Coronavirus levels in California's wastewater have reached a "very high" level for the first time since last winter, with two new COVID variants, FLiRT, responsible for more than half of the latest ri...

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Call your reps today to tell them you support this and expect them to vocally support these efforts as well as AOC’s articles of impeachment for the compromised justices. It only takes 5 minutes, and you often don’t even have to speak to a real human! (Negative/doomer replies will be blocked)

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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my decision to quit online dating remains one of the best things I've ever done lol I'll just stay single forever thanks www.thecut.com/article/chan...

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transmisogynoir

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Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

I’m actually still very angry about this and I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with it, but absolutely none of my coping strategies will include bullying white marginalized people because I’m actually interested in progress

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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multiple protesters and a journalist were shot

Nationwide protests and general strike called in Kenya today.

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I'm busy today, so here's my 2000+ word response to everything that happened on this anti-Black platform yesterday. You can read it, or not. www.patreon.com/posts/racism...

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon