Naomi L.A ‘Baudelaire’ Smith
@naomilasmith.bsky.social
A librarian who left the profession due to racism —now an award winning entrepreneur
Founder of die4artbynaomi.com
Join the DIE4ART book club 🖤 https://www.die4artbynaomi.com/die4artbookclub
Founder of die4artbynaomi.com
Join the DIE4ART book club 🖤 https://www.die4artbynaomi.com/die4artbookclub
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I am also excited to announce the creation of
DIE4ART BOOK CLUB 🖤
My book club represents a new type of library ; an intellectual salon, healing space & creative community for people ready to question inherited narratives and imagine new possibilities.
www.die4artbynaomi.com/die4artbookc...
DIE4ART BOOK CLUB 🖤
My book club represents a new type of library ; an intellectual salon, healing space & creative community for people ready to question inherited narratives and imagine new possibilities.
www.die4artbynaomi.com/die4artbookc...
👀 What becomes possible when we #decolonise our imagination away from colonial limitations and instead connect back to #precolonial ancestral guidance, creativity and #afrofuturistic possibilities?
Come and find out!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inu-an-onl...
Come and find out!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inu-an-onl...
Inú : an online personal transformation
Join us for a powerful day of self-discovery and growth that’ll flip your world upside down in the best way possible.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 8, 2026 at 7:48 AM
👀 What becomes possible when we #decolonise our imagination away from colonial limitations and instead connect back to #precolonial ancestral guidance, creativity and #afrofuturistic possibilities?
Come and find out!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inu-an-onl...
Come and find out!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inu-an-onl...
I am also excited to announce the creation of
DIE4ART BOOK CLUB 🖤
My book club represents a new type of library ; an intellectual salon, healing space & creative community for people ready to question inherited narratives and imagine new possibilities.
www.die4artbynaomi.com/die4artbookc...
DIE4ART BOOK CLUB 🖤
My book club represents a new type of library ; an intellectual salon, healing space & creative community for people ready to question inherited narratives and imagine new possibilities.
www.die4artbynaomi.com/die4artbookc...
June 3, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I am also excited to announce the creation of
DIE4ART BOOK CLUB 🖤
My book club represents a new type of library ; an intellectual salon, healing space & creative community for people ready to question inherited narratives and imagine new possibilities.
www.die4artbynaomi.com/die4artbookc...
DIE4ART BOOK CLUB 🖤
My book club represents a new type of library ; an intellectual salon, healing space & creative community for people ready to question inherited narratives and imagine new possibilities.
www.die4artbynaomi.com/die4artbookc...
We are already living inside the coloniser’s imagination. Now it is time to imagine and build new worlds — beginning first from within.
I invite you to my next #decolonial workshop Decolonising Our Imagination: Rebuilding the World With the Child 🌅
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonisi...
I invite you to my next #decolonial workshop Decolonising Our Imagination: Rebuilding the World With the Child 🌅
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonisi...
Decolonising Imagination: Rebuilding the World With the Child Within
An online radical dream-building workshop designed to expand the imagination required to create a new decolonial future for us all
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 3, 2026 at 2:02 AM
We are already living inside the coloniser’s imagination. Now it is time to imagine and build new worlds — beginning first from within.
I invite you to my next #decolonial workshop Decolonising Our Imagination: Rebuilding the World With the Child 🌅
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonisi...
I invite you to my next #decolonial workshop Decolonising Our Imagination: Rebuilding the World With the Child 🌅
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonisi...
Remembering ABUNDANCE In Times Of Scarcity! ⚡️🌍🌳
Time: Apr 26, 2026 08:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
us06web.zoom.us/j/8274326707...
Together, we’ll unpack abundance through indigenous, decolonial, and lived perspectives replay will be on my YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@DIE4ARTBYNA...
🖤
Time: Apr 26, 2026 08:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
us06web.zoom.us/j/8274326707...
Together, we’ll unpack abundance through indigenous, decolonial, and lived perspectives replay will be on my YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@DIE4ARTBYNA...
🖤
April 26, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Remembering ABUNDANCE In Times Of Scarcity! ⚡️🌍🌳
Time: Apr 26, 2026 08:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
us06web.zoom.us/j/8274326707...
Together, we’ll unpack abundance through indigenous, decolonial, and lived perspectives replay will be on my YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@DIE4ARTBYNA...
🖤
Time: Apr 26, 2026 08:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
us06web.zoom.us/j/8274326707...
Together, we’ll unpack abundance through indigenous, decolonial, and lived perspectives replay will be on my YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@DIE4ARTBYNA...
🖤
What started as a free idea that was rejected by two academic conferences turned into a webinar that generated close to four figures in revenue, with many attendees choosing to pay a premium ticket price! This is a reminder one persons trash is another persons treasure…
March 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
What started as a free idea that was rejected by two academic conferences turned into a webinar that generated close to four figures in revenue, with many attendees choosing to pay a premium ticket price! This is a reminder one persons trash is another persons treasure…
How complicit are we are in our own suffering?
How complicit are we in wider collective suffering?
How often do we look within and ask ourselves if there is any part of us that needs to change in order to see a difference in our personal and collective lives?
How complicit are we in wider collective suffering?
How often do we look within and ask ourselves if there is any part of us that needs to change in order to see a difference in our personal and collective lives?
March 3, 2026 at 12:24 PM
How complicit are we are in our own suffering?
How complicit are we in wider collective suffering?
How often do we look within and ask ourselves if there is any part of us that needs to change in order to see a difference in our personal and collective lives?
How complicit are we in wider collective suffering?
How often do we look within and ask ourselves if there is any part of us that needs to change in order to see a difference in our personal and collective lives?
Academics should be dominating social media !
March 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Academics should be dominating social media !
Academia won’t save us.
Join me next week to learn how to create critical pedagogical content online that will connect with students inside and outside of universities as well as build a personal platform, & create financial resilience if circumstances change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
Join me next week to learn how to create critical pedagogical content online that will connect with students inside and outside of universities as well as build a personal platform, & create financial resilience if circumstances change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
Beyond The Ivory Tower: Social Media As Sites of Liberation?
A practical anti-hegemonic workshop desined to help academics create social media which break barriers beyond The Ivory Tower
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 25, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Academia won’t save us.
Join me next week to learn how to create critical pedagogical content online that will connect with students inside and outside of universities as well as build a personal platform, & create financial resilience if circumstances change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
Join me next week to learn how to create critical pedagogical content online that will connect with students inside and outside of universities as well as build a personal platform, & create financial resilience if circumstances change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
Feedback from my latest YouTube video. I’m hosting a webinar for academics, educators, and knowledge workers on how to use social media intentionally and ethically for public education, collective impact, and real change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Feedback from my latest YouTube video. I’m hosting a webinar for academics, educators, and knowledge workers on how to use social media intentionally and ethically for public education, collective impact, and real change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
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Upcoming webinar from @naomilasmith.bsky.social aimed at academics: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
Beyond The Ivory Tower: Social Media As Sites of Liberation?
A practical anti-hegemonic workshop desined to help academics create social media which break barriers beyond The Ivory Tower
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Upcoming webinar from @naomilasmith.bsky.social aimed at academics: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
We need new tools, new imaginative and new willingness to take responsibility within our own spheres of influences not more conferences and articles & builfiny #digitalskills that support dditional income streams during a time of job precarity in HE!
We need new tools, new imaginative and new willingness to take responsibility within our own spheres of influences not more conferences and articles & builfiny #digitalskills that support dditional income streams during a time of job precarity in HE!
Beyond The Ivory Tower: Social Media As Sites of Liberation?
A practical anti-hegemonic workshop desined to help academics create social media which break barriers beyond The Ivory Tower
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
We need new tools, new imaginative and new willingness to take responsibility within our own spheres of influences not more conferences and articles & builfiny #digitalskills that support dditional income streams during a time of job precarity in HE!
We need new tools, new imaginative and new willingness to take responsibility within our own spheres of influences not more conferences and articles & builfiny #digitalskills that support dditional income streams during a time of job precarity in HE!
DON’T MY HAIR IN THE LIBRARY! EXPOSING HAIR MICROGRESSIONS IN #uklibraries #academiclibraries
#blacklibrarians #libraryracism #mysogynoire
SHARE TODAY: open.substack.com/pub/naomibau...
#blacklibrarians #libraryracism #mysogynoire
SHARE TODAY: open.substack.com/pub/naomibau...
August 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
DON’T MY HAIR IN THE LIBRARY! EXPOSING HAIR MICROGRESSIONS IN #uklibraries #academiclibraries
#blacklibrarians #libraryracism #mysogynoire
SHARE TODAY: open.substack.com/pub/naomibau...
#blacklibrarians #libraryracism #mysogynoire
SHARE TODAY: open.substack.com/pub/naomibau...
#HAIRMICROAGRESSIONS EXPERIENCED BY UK #BLACK #ACADEMICLIBRARIANS AVAILABLE TO READ NOW lnkd.in/e-qbcVE3
August 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#HAIRMICROAGRESSIONS EXPERIENCED BY UK #BLACK #ACADEMICLIBRARIANS AVAILABLE TO READ NOW lnkd.in/e-qbcVE3
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The U.K. is a police state
July 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The U.K. is a police state
Reposted by Naomi L.A ‘Baudelaire’ Smith
Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
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I’ve recently been blessed with a grant and am now in the early stages of creating a small community library and running workshops for people who’ve never truly felt welcomed in traditional literary spaces. My goal is to build something different—open, empowering, and radically inclusive.
July 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I’ve recently been blessed with a grant and am now in the early stages of creating a small community library and running workshops for people who’ve never truly felt welcomed in traditional literary spaces. My goal is to build something different—open, empowering, and radically inclusive.
I’ve recently been blessed with a grant and am now in the early stages of creating a small community library and running workshops for people who’ve never truly felt welcomed in traditional literary spaces. My goal is to build something different—open, empowering, and radically inclusive.
July 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I’ve recently been blessed with a grant and am now in the early stages of creating a small community library and running workshops for people who’ve never truly felt welcomed in traditional literary spaces. My goal is to build something different—open, empowering, and radically inclusive.
I’m now an author! Yesterday I released an ebook called 1234 Open This Door! Unlocking New Knowledge, Power & Creative Freedom. It is a 67-page guide, designed to help you break free from limiting beliefs and reconnect with the truth of who you really are www.die4artbynaomi.com/shop
Welcome to DIE4ART: A Creative, Educational Agency specialising in PR related to Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Education (DIE) to help brands, creatives and influencers discuss controversial topic...
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May 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I’m now an author! Yesterday I released an ebook called 1234 Open This Door! Unlocking New Knowledge, Power & Creative Freedom. It is a 67-page guide, designed to help you break free from limiting beliefs and reconnect with the truth of who you really are www.die4artbynaomi.com/shop
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'Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as a Colonial Project' by @gabriellapreyes.bsky.social. How classification systems uphold colonial knowledge structures & contribute to epistemicideas as they disregard indigenous knowledges. journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #DeweyDecimal #LCSH #Libraries
Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as Colonial Project
| Catalogue and Index
journals.cilip.org.uk
April 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as a Colonial Project' by @gabriellapreyes.bsky.social. How classification systems uphold colonial knowledge structures & contribute to epistemicideas as they disregard indigenous knowledges. journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #DeweyDecimal #LCSH #Libraries
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Today, I had the honor of virtually speaking in Texas on “The Power of Designing the Unseen: Indigenous Wisdom in Action. It was important for me to communicate #hope to design students currently living under the Trump administration many of whom are facing the threat of mass deportation.
April 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Today, I had the honor of virtually speaking in Texas on “The Power of Designing the Unseen: Indigenous Wisdom in Action. It was important for me to communicate #hope to design students currently living under the Trump administration many of whom are facing the threat of mass deportation.
Today, I had the honor of virtually speaking in Texas on “The Power of Designing the Unseen: Indigenous Wisdom in Action. It was important for me to communicate #hope to design students currently living under the Trump administration many of whom are facing the threat of mass deportation.
April 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Today, I had the honor of virtually speaking in Texas on “The Power of Designing the Unseen: Indigenous Wisdom in Action. It was important for me to communicate #hope to design students currently living under the Trump administration many of whom are facing the threat of mass deportation.
polite reminder : If your commitment to equity doesn’t extend to all oppressed people, then it’s just performative—no better than the ‘allies’ you critique #DEI
April 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
polite reminder : If your commitment to equity doesn’t extend to all oppressed people, then it’s just performative—no better than the ‘allies’ you critique #DEI