Serafina (she/her)
@serafinaofthelost.bsky.social
Lover of all things fantasy 🦄🧚🏼♂️🐉
Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
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People are complicated! You can harm one community in the past and help a different one in the future! Let’s hold all truths at the same time!
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And even if he HAD apologized sincerely, we are still allowed to side eye him and his ways. Even if we agree with him on Palestine (and I do agree). Forever holding multiple thoughts in our heads at the same time.
September 16, 2026 at 12:34 AM
People are complicated! You can harm one community in the past and help a different one in the future! Let’s hold all truths at the same time!
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REBUILD needs funding to keep going and I am helping to raise $40,000 by December 31. if you can make a personal donation, please support here: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
September 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
REBUILD needs funding to keep going and I am helping to raise $40,000 by December 31. if you can make a personal donation, please support here: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
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It’s time for a COVER REVEAL! ✨ I had the honor of illustrating Onward, We Marched, writer Erica Martin’s debut picture book with Penguin Kids. Here’s the official summary:
“A stunning and lyrical picture book introduction to the Civil Rights Movement from celebrated author Erica Martin… #kidlit
“A stunning and lyrical picture book introduction to the Civil Rights Movement from celebrated author Erica Martin… #kidlit
September 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
It’s time for a COVER REVEAL! ✨ I had the honor of illustrating Onward, We Marched, writer Erica Martin’s debut picture book with Penguin Kids. Here’s the official summary:
“A stunning and lyrical picture book introduction to the Civil Rights Movement from celebrated author Erica Martin… #kidlit
“A stunning and lyrical picture book introduction to the Civil Rights Movement from celebrated author Erica Martin… #kidlit
Wild to finish a book that IMO is a MASTERPIECE, only to get online and read reviews that are like “meh” and “kinda boring”. Shows that you really gotta write for your people and forget everyone else! Haters gonna hate but lovers gonna love 🥰
September 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Wild to finish a book that IMO is a MASTERPIECE, only to get online and read reviews that are like “meh” and “kinda boring”. Shows that you really gotta write for your people and forget everyone else! Haters gonna hate but lovers gonna love 🥰
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Read the full story:
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
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September 6, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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The "fantasy has to have rules" thinking just... generally bores me. I get where it's coming from! But I am bored. I don't want to read it. I don't want to write it. I want worlds and magic with chaos and surprise and a total absence of reliability. And also people occasionally getting electrocuted.
September 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The "fantasy has to have rules" thinking just... generally bores me. I get where it's coming from! But I am bored. I don't want to read it. I don't want to write it. I want worlds and magic with chaos and surprise and a total absence of reliability. And also people occasionally getting electrocuted.
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2027!
Pre-orders begin in January
Pre-orders begin in January
September 5, 2026 at 10:07 PM
2027!
Pre-orders begin in January
Pre-orders begin in January
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If you’re wanting to celebrate Bi Visibility Month and Sapphic September, have I got good news for you!
Me: bisexual author.
My books: Many sapphic tales to choose from, but especially Love in Netherford and These Marvelous Beasts!
🏳️🌈
Me: bisexual author.
My books: Many sapphic tales to choose from, but especially Love in Netherford and These Marvelous Beasts!
🏳️🌈
September 6, 2026 at 1:08 AM
If you’re wanting to celebrate Bi Visibility Month and Sapphic September, have I got good news for you!
Me: bisexual author.
My books: Many sapphic tales to choose from, but especially Love in Netherford and These Marvelous Beasts!
🏳️🌈
Me: bisexual author.
My books: Many sapphic tales to choose from, but especially Love in Netherford and These Marvelous Beasts!
🏳️🌈
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West Africans practiced smallpox inoculation long before Europeans had ever heard of it, and brought the knowledge with them to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade. Historian Elise Mitchell examines how these stories were “forgotten” amid the hardening of racial ideologies in the 19th century
The world has spent centuries forgetting the African history of immunisation
Historian Dr Elise Mitchell re-examines the early history of smallpox inoculation on both ends of the Atlantic slave trade.
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September 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
West Africans practiced smallpox inoculation long before Europeans had ever heard of it, and brought the knowledge with them to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade. Historian Elise Mitchell examines how these stories were “forgotten” amid the hardening of racial ideologies in the 19th century
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Nobody fucking believes Zionists when they say criticism of Israel or opposition to it is antisemitic anymore. They wore that one out. We all can see that massacring every Palestinian in sight & expanding genocide regionally has nothing to do with Judaism. Including many anti Zionist Jews worldwide.
September 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Nobody fucking believes Zionists when they say criticism of Israel or opposition to it is antisemitic anymore. They wore that one out. We all can see that massacring every Palestinian in sight & expanding genocide regionally has nothing to do with Judaism. Including many anti Zionist Jews worldwide.
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Y'all, if you never had the chance to support my debut novel, this is it. And gosh, whatever have you been waiting for? It's that hot fire. It got the juice. A young man exiled from New Orleans by Katrina's journey home across the south possessed by the spirit his foster mother gave him as a hex.
None But the Righteous: A Novel
Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction "[A] profound de...
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August 30, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Y'all, if you never had the chance to support my debut novel, this is it. And gosh, whatever have you been waiting for? It's that hot fire. It got the juice. A young man exiled from New Orleans by Katrina's journey home across the south possessed by the spirit his foster mother gave him as a hex.
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No matter whether you're intending to publish the piece or not, you gotta stop writing for your Very Worst And Most Horriblest Readers. Are they out there? Yes! Will they read your book? Probably! Do you have to give a shit? You do NOT.
What's one piece of advice you think writers need to hear? #WritingPrompt
August 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM
No matter whether you're intending to publish the piece or not, you gotta stop writing for your Very Worst And Most Horriblest Readers. Are they out there? Yes! Will they read your book? Probably! Do you have to give a shit? You do NOT.
Somehow the library got like six of my holds in on the same day and now I don’t have enough time to read them all before they’re due. So I need help choosing between the one about hot lesbians and the one about… something else. Nevermind. I answered my own question.
August 25, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Somehow the library got like six of my holds in on the same day and now I don’t have enough time to read them all before they’re due. So I need help choosing between the one about hot lesbians and the one about… something else. Nevermind. I answered my own question.
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“HOW TO LIVE IN THE AGE OF A.I.” ALLLLLL This. 100%!!! 😊❤️
August 25, 2026 at 3:41 PM
“HOW TO LIVE IN THE AGE OF A.I.” ALLLLLL This. 100%!!! 😊❤️
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late to the party but I hear we're posting about our books?
here's me posing a blow-up of my cover for HIGHER MAGIC, aka my favorite object from debut year
magic grad school from a 1st-gen pov replete with disability rep, talking skull, irreverent Jane Austen quotes, love, & collective action
here's me posing a blow-up of my cover for HIGHER MAGIC, aka my favorite object from debut year
magic grad school from a 1st-gen pov replete with disability rep, talking skull, irreverent Jane Austen quotes, love, & collective action
August 19, 2026 at 5:53 PM
late to the party but I hear we're posting about our books?
here's me posing a blow-up of my cover for HIGHER MAGIC, aka my favorite object from debut year
magic grad school from a 1st-gen pov replete with disability rep, talking skull, irreverent Jane Austen quotes, love, & collective action
here's me posing a blow-up of my cover for HIGHER MAGIC, aka my favorite object from debut year
magic grad school from a 1st-gen pov replete with disability rep, talking skull, irreverent Jane Austen quotes, love, & collective action
Just finished Muñeca by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social and OMG it’s everything I want in a gothic romance! It’s sexy, it’s scary, and it reminded me to put on some Aretha Franklin 🤘highly recommend!!
August 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Just finished Muñeca by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social and OMG it’s everything I want in a gothic romance! It’s sexy, it’s scary, and it reminded me to put on some Aretha Franklin 🤘highly recommend!!
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Prison abolition is a generational project. We're not throwing open the prison doors and calling it a day. We're fundamentally reconstructing society around care and solidarity and replacing prisons with structures built on restorative justice.
It's not one bill or one measure.
It's not one bill or one measure.
August 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Prison abolition is a generational project. We're not throwing open the prison doors and calling it a day. We're fundamentally reconstructing society around care and solidarity and replacing prisons with structures built on restorative justice.
It's not one bill or one measure.
It's not one bill or one measure.
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There is not 1 solution. There’s 1,000 solutions. 10,000 solutions.
My nonprofit is my solution. PREVENTION of women being incarcerated or re-incarcerated is my research-backed solution.
My nonprofit is my solution. PREVENTION of women being incarcerated or re-incarcerated is my research-backed solution.
August 12, 2026 at 1:13 PM
There is not 1 solution. There’s 1,000 solutions. 10,000 solutions.
My nonprofit is my solution. PREVENTION of women being incarcerated or re-incarcerated is my research-backed solution.
My nonprofit is my solution. PREVENTION of women being incarcerated or re-incarcerated is my research-backed solution.
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I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.
Food & Water x The Sameer Project
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...
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August 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.
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Friends, one of my most hopeful stories -- really! -- is in this anthology called Eat the Rich, which is open for pre-orders now. I'm so, so happy to see this out in the world. Oh, and in case you're squeamish about cannibalism: so am I! My angle is... very different.
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Eat the Rich: Stories of Carnivorous Anti-Capitalism
If there's a problem in the world-literally any problem-you can bet there's a billionaire behind it somewhere, exacerbating untold suffering for their own personal gain. War, famine, pestilence, and d...
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August 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Friends, one of my most hopeful stories -- really! -- is in this anthology called Eat the Rich, which is open for pre-orders now. I'm so, so happy to see this out in the world. Oh, and in case you're squeamish about cannibalism: so am I! My angle is... very different.
bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...
bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...
Not even a murder mystery person but I’ve read 2 this year and they were both excellent. Check out A Master of Djinn by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social for the fabulously dressed characters and the world building or the 7 and a half deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton for time-loop shenanigans 🤓
August 8, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Not even a murder mystery person but I’ve read 2 this year and they were both excellent. Check out A Master of Djinn by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social for the fabulously dressed characters and the world building or the 7 and a half deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton for time-loop shenanigans 🤓
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This story you keep hearing about Jews abandoning the Democratic party or moving rightwards in droves? That's a lie. It's right wing propaganda. The data simply doesn't show it. If anything, Jews under 40 in the US are the most progressive generation of Jews *ever*.
August 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
This story you keep hearing about Jews abandoning the Democratic party or moving rightwards in droves? That's a lie. It's right wing propaganda. The data simply doesn't show it. If anything, Jews under 40 in the US are the most progressive generation of Jews *ever*.
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Atlanta, some comrades have been working for years on this exhibition about Kathleen Cleaver that opens tomorrow at the Auburn Avenue Research Library. Please help spread the word and visit yourselves. It runs until Jan 4, 2027 so you have time to visit.
theworldsshemade.com
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The World(s) She Made
Revolutionary icon, racial justice activist, and former Black Panther Party Communications Secretary Kathleen Neal Cleaver delves into her personal archive.
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July 30, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Atlanta, some comrades have been working for years on this exhibition about Kathleen Cleaver that opens tomorrow at the Auburn Avenue Research Library. Please help spread the word and visit yourselves. It runs until Jan 4, 2027 so you have time to visit.
theworldsshemade.com
theworldsshemade.com
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I simply don't think weapons manufacturers should be allowed to profit from genocide or war crimes.
And I certainly don't think they should be allowed to lobby lawmakers to go to war to find a use for their weapons.
And I certainly don't think they should be allowed to lobby lawmakers to go to war to find a use for their weapons.
July 29, 2026 at 3:42 AM
I simply don't think weapons manufacturers should be allowed to profit from genocide or war crimes.
And I certainly don't think they should be allowed to lobby lawmakers to go to war to find a use for their weapons.
And I certainly don't think they should be allowed to lobby lawmakers to go to war to find a use for their weapons.