@norrell.bsky.social
PhD in Black diaspora literature
◇ My name isn't Toni Childs, but I specialize in results ◇ words in @Yes @Electriclit, @LAReviewofBooks, @theGrio
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◇ My name isn't Toni Childs, but I specialize in results ◇ words in @Yes @Electriclit, @LAReviewofBooks, @theGrio
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· May 15
Saving the NEH | Los Angeles Review of Books
Dr. Norrell Edwards considers the Trump administration’s termination of National Endowment for the Humanities grants.
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"The values of this administration are clear: the United States is for the wealthy. The rest of us have to make our own way upstream. There is no interest in using taxpayer dollars to support upward mobility or the public good." Support @modernlanguage.bsky.social lawsuit to reinstore the NEH
Leading another reading group for The Center for Fiction--this time on Jamaican Girlhood.
Sign up here if you're interested:
Reading Jamaican Girlhood with Norrell Edwards | The Center for Fiction share.google/DnnfqnY3f20Q...
Sign up here if you're interested:
Reading Jamaican Girlhood with Norrell Edwards | The Center for Fiction share.google/DnnfqnY3f20Q...
September 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Leading another reading group for The Center for Fiction--this time on Jamaican Girlhood.
Sign up here if you're interested:
Reading Jamaican Girlhood with Norrell Edwards | The Center for Fiction share.google/DnnfqnY3f20Q...
Sign up here if you're interested:
Reading Jamaican Girlhood with Norrell Edwards | The Center for Fiction share.google/DnnfqnY3f20Q...
I'm so excited for this event. I'll be there and you should too!
I have been holding this news for weeks. I'm so excited to share an event I'll be participating in with @feministpress.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social @karnythia.blacksky.app and LORETTA J. Ross on Oct 6th at 6pm EST at THEE SCHOMBURG!!! Admission is free!
www.eventbrite.com/e/2000312837...
www.eventbrite.com/e/2000312837...
Feminist Press and Roxane Gay Present: FEMINIST CANARIES
Don't miss this bold conversation about how feminism prepared us for this political moment, even when the world refused to listen.
www.eventbrite.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I'm so excited for this event. I'll be there and you should too!
Can't believe this is my 12th year of teaching college. Whewww.
August 27, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Can't believe this is my 12th year of teaching college. Whewww.
Sometimes I write an email related to policy so sharp, I convince myself again that I could have been a lawyer 😅😅😅
August 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Sometimes I write an email related to policy so sharp, I convince myself again that I could have been a lawyer 😅😅😅
We went to the farmer's market last weekend and now that we got from farm to table at home?! The supermarket meat and vegetable aisles will NEVA see me again! 😅😅😅
July 30, 2026 at 8:18 PM
We went to the farmer's market last weekend and now that we got from farm to table at home?! The supermarket meat and vegetable aisles will NEVA see me again! 😅😅😅
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Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it.
We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists.
Hope that clarifies.
We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists.
Hope that clarifies.
July 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it.
We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists.
Hope that clarifies.
We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists.
Hope that clarifies.
I've been fighting the urge to revamp my neo-slave narratives class and ALAS I think I'm losing the battle 🫠🫠🫠
July 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I've been fighting the urge to revamp my neo-slave narratives class and ALAS I think I'm losing the battle 🫠🫠🫠
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'A lost interview (1995) with award-winning writer #OctaviaButler and filmmaker @juliedash.bsky.social at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first Black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent.'
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vimeo.com/163190768
Julie Dash interviews Octavia Butler (1995)
A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first bla...
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June 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
'A lost interview (1995) with award-winning writer #OctaviaButler and filmmaker @juliedash.bsky.social at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first Black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent.'
vimeo.com/163190768
vimeo.com/163190768
On Eventbrite and I'm really startin to see the AI flyer pandemic lol
June 19, 2026 at 12:53 AM
On Eventbrite and I'm really startin to see the AI flyer pandemic lol
I mean it's expensive af out here; the bubble had to burst eventually
Blue-collar white voters are, for the first time, seriously doubting President Trump’s handling of the economy, a review of polling by The New York Times shows.
Trump Is Losing Ground With White Working-Class Voters on the Economy
A review of polling data shows an extraordinary swing among white working-class voters on the president’s handling of the economy.
nyti.ms
June 14, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I mean it's expensive af out here; the bubble had to burst eventually
I'm actually pretty annoyed, maybe even angry that Samsung Messages is shutting down and forcing me to Google messages. I don't want Google to have anymore of my data.
May 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM
I'm actually pretty annoyed, maybe even angry that Samsung Messages is shutting down and forcing me to Google messages. I don't want Google to have anymore of my data.
I know its the end of the semester when I've severely misplaced something critical--like my wallet 😭😭
May 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I know its the end of the semester when I've severely misplaced something critical--like my wallet 😭😭
The last day of class genuinely snuck up on me. I swore we had class next week 😅😅
April 29, 2026 at 3:44 AM
The last day of class genuinely snuck up on me. I swore we had class next week 😅😅
Trying to beat back the itch to overhaul my neo-slave narrative class with totally new books 😩😩😩
April 26, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Trying to beat back the itch to overhaul my neo-slave narrative class with totally new books 😩😩😩
I really love a book that feels like it's the equivalent of people watching
April 10, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I really love a book that feels like it's the equivalent of people watching
Everything comin' outta ChatGPT is startin to give early 2000s MS Clip Art 😂😂😂
April 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Everything comin' outta ChatGPT is startin to give early 2000s MS Clip Art 😂😂😂
Why has my Samsung updated my clock app with routines? I don't want to create any routines...I just want to simply set an alarm clock..is that too much to ask??
March 16, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Why has my Samsung updated my clock app with routines? I don't want to create any routines...I just want to simply set an alarm clock..is that too much to ask??
It me 🤗🤗🤗
Meet 2021 Fellow @norrelledwards, Board Chair at Feminist Press! Alumni from 9 @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Publishing Workshops are now in presses, magazines, and organizations globally.
Apply through Marcy 15! https://lareviewofbooks.org/publishing-workshop/
Apply through Marcy 15! https://lareviewofbooks.org/publishing-workshop/
March 11, 2026 at 10:27 PM
It me 🤗🤗🤗
Just finished rewatching Harriet the Spy and it definitely did something for me
March 1, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Just finished rewatching Harriet the Spy and it definitely did something for me
Reading Kingdom of No Tomorrow got me really wanting to rewatch Judas and the Black Messiah but why is this movie $3 & some change to RENT on every streaming platform?!
February 25, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Reading Kingdom of No Tomorrow got me really wanting to rewatch Judas and the Black Messiah but why is this movie $3 & some change to RENT on every streaming platform?!
👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾 Today's my bday and this year I became the board chair for the world's oldest, continously running Feminist publisher, The Feminist Press. For my bday please consider donating
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February 21, 2026 at 2:00 AM
👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾 Today's my bday and this year I became the board chair for the world's oldest, continously running Feminist publisher, The Feminist Press. For my bday please consider donating
donate.feministpress.org/forms/norrel...
donate.feministpress.org/forms/norrel...
Is Youtube down for others?
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Is Youtube down for others?
I went into dropbox for the first time in like 5 years and it tripped me outtttt lol Like oh are these random docs still in here? Huhhh
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I went into dropbox for the first time in like 5 years and it tripped me outtttt lol Like oh are these random docs still in here? Huhhh
It goes without saying the way we are marketed to via data collection is deeeeply disturbing, but I must admit I'm not mad at all the ads I get for writing residencies, grants and other opportunities.
February 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It goes without saying the way we are marketed to via data collection is deeeeply disturbing, but I must admit I'm not mad at all the ads I get for writing residencies, grants and other opportunities.
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Welcome to the Plutocracy
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Welcome to the Plutocracy