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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Here on Sundays. DMs not open for business. Contact info for reps in my bio. Thank you!

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

4 years

Playing Taboo with these kids and this child just said, as a clue, "Old people Netflix...." The word was "Blockbuster."

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Instant block for anyone blaming that child for her own murder.

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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I'm relocating in 2022 to someplace Blacker with a thriving arts (including literary) community. Please sell me on your city.

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

“You live in an echo chamber” isn’t the insult some people seem to think it is. By engaging people who believe monstrous things as if it’s just a difference of opinion, you dignify those monstrous things. White supremacy isn’t an opinion.

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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Start a history fight in 6 words or less: The Suffragettes were racist.

Rebecca Fachner

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Start a history fight in 6 words or less I’ll go first: Military history is gender history

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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"When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” -- Toni Morrison

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Just saw a tweet from a healthcare worker in isolation for Christmas because a patient’s family was refused entry b/c they had COVID. These ppl waited outside, then spat in the hcw’s face. My sister is an RN, and she carries. I don’t even know what else to say.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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Her status as a mother is irrelevant here, except in service to the myth of white innocence.

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#BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge ruled that Rachel Powell, the Mercer County mother suspected in the Capitol riot, may be released pending trial with restrictions.

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Deesha Philyaw

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HARSH WRITING ADVICE that a Black woman writer gave me nearly 20 years ago: Stop worrying about getting your writing published; worry about getting better at writing.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Are you a writer who falls in love with other writers on the sole basis of their writing? Finna start a support group.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Yesterday, a dear friend was trying to understand why someone was being abusive toward them, and I said, “It doesn’t matter why.” I wasn’t trying to be dismissive. But that’s my m.o. now, romantically, platonically, and professionally. Zero tolerance for disrespect and abuse.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

James Baldwin said, “I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” He was talking about racism and hypocrisy in this country, but I lean into his words as a reminder and a safeguard.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Today, I had a choice to make, and I didn’t settle. Please clap.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

To show our support for new voices in literature, @KieseLaymon , Robert Jones Jr., and I came together to create #LIT16 , a quarterly reading series celebrating sixteen debut authors and their works! Introducing our inaugural cohort:

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

4 years

"Thompson will exec produce with author Philyaw, who is also writing the adaptation." 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Deadline Hollywood

@DEADLINE

4 years

EXCLUSIVE Tessa Thompson ( @TessaThompson_x ) is moving into production in a major way with a new production company, a first-look deal at @HBO and #HBOMax and exec producing two big book adaptations – Who Fears Death and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

A couple nights ago, someone tweeted asking how people were doing in the wake of this ugly week. I answered, and then I asked the OP how they were doing. Then a guy I've known virtually/online for 15 years, chimed in and replied to my reply: "Like you give a shit. :)." +

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

May the buttery crust to peaches ratio in your cobbler ever be 2:1.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

I wrote The Secret Lives of Church Ladies in hopes that Black women would see and hear themselves in my characters and their stories. I wrote it to be a balm, an affirmation, a celebration, and a guidepost for getting free. 1/7

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

My favorite church lady, my Grandma Pauline, is gone. This is us at her 90th birthday party in 2019.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

In general, I don’t allow people to waste my time anymore or violate my boundaries. I no longer feel obligated to explain why I put up a boundary, and my boundaries are not debatable.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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One of the things that young ppl need to know when they go into writing is that they ought to stop writing these stupid books that please ppl. They should write as if they might fail at it. To succeed @ something mediocre is worse than to fail @ something great. - Jamaica Kincaid

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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I don't know where that came from, haven’t had any prior negative interactions w/him. But I don't care where it came from. In under 5 mins, I blocked him on social & on email. I don't tolerate any kind of abuse or disrespect or unkindness. I’ve learned that “why” doesn’t matter.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Just go ‘head and bury me now…

Terry McMillan

@MsTerryMcMillan

3 years

I am a major fan of @DeeshaPhilyaw : THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES. She is a phenomenal storyteller, but don't take my word for it. Read her book and be changed and enlightened.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Church Ladies is under 40K words and fits well on shelves. Write the book you want to write.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Perfect time for my annual tweet about the editor who told me Dr. Roberts (interview + her books) wasn’t an adequate source for my reported piece on race & child welfare. Said editor had met Cornel West at a cocktail party once & wanted me to get a quote from him on the subject.

New York Magazine

@NYMag

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Legal scholar and sociologist @DorothyERoberts wrote about the criminalization of pregnancy 25 years ago. Why didn’t more of us listen? @irin reports

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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What would you do if you were at the airport wearing a bonnet, minding your own Black-ass business, and Mo’Nique tapped you on the shoulder and told you the ancestors were displeased?

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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@DubbDeezy @3rdAndMiles Is it the hard “er” on “motherfucker”? Because that’s what’s troubling me.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Look at my juicy UK baby, y’all!! Out in May 2022 from @PushkinPress ! 🍑

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

There are a lot of problems with respectability, but we don’t talk enough about how at a base level it just renders life and art boring as fuck.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Verbal and emotional abuse can be slippery that way. But regardless of what you call it, you know how it makes you feel. And you don’t have to stay in relationship with people who make you feel bad. You don’t owe them access to you.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PEN/Faulkner Foundation

@penfaulkner

3 years

We are also thrilled to announce the longlist of books for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried literary prize.

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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I’ve decided that it’s time for me to stop hiding behind my degrees and accolades and pride, and just admit that I have no idea how to work my Instant Pot. I just put stuff in it, press some buttons and leave it to the Lord.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

I said “no” a lot this week, to opportunities and to people. I’m going to thank me in about 3-6 months.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

I peopled today. Outside. I had to come home and take a nap afterwards.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

I stayed for over a decade in an abusive relationship and subsequent marriage trying to reconcile that person’s claim to love me with his mistreatment of me. (This was my second husband, not my wonderful co-parent, ftr.)

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Had an essay rejected on Tuesday morning. Sent it out again Tuesday morning. It was just accepted by the 2nd publication. #keepgoing #itsnotpersonal #amsubmitting

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

O M G Thank you so, so much!! ❤️❤️❤️

Terry McMillan

@MsTerryMcMillan

3 years

Great Read: THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES by Deeshaw Philyaw.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

@zellieimani 50

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Popping in to scream this great news! I couldn’t ask for a more brilliant partner than @iToriSampson ! Let’s make some magic! ❤️

Deadline Hollywood

@DEADLINE

3 years

Tori Sampson Boards Tessa Thompson & HBO Max’s ‘The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies’, Will Write & EP With Deesha Philyaw

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

MAMA I MADE IT

WHHS Library

@WHHS_Library

3 years

Last month's @WHInteraction guest @DeeshaPhilyaw is an answer to a clue in a recent crossword from the @NewYorker . How cool!

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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I honestly don’t know what I would do without Black women.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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A full 67% of the discourse on here would disappear if people would humble themselves and say (preferably to themselves or otherwise offline), "Huh. I didn't even know that."

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Fuck it. I’ll do it. - Black Woman proverb

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Seventeen yrs ago, I spent Thanksgiving in Vegas with a mediocre man I barely knew because my mom had died a few months earlier, my kids were with their dad that year, and because I remember thinking, “I want the exact opposite of family for Thanksgiving.” Grief is a motherfucker

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Following in the mighty footsteps of previous Grisham Writers in Residence including @KieseLaymon , @MauriceRuffin , @aimeenez , @GarthGreenwell , and @januaryoneil , I’m sitting on the porch of John Grisham’s old house—my home for the next year—writing my next book. I’m thankful.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Shaun King getting dragged in the Verzuz comments >>>>>>>>>

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

4 years

I was invited to a Facebook group for Black women, and one of the questions you have to answer to be admitted is, "How long did Sofia have to fight?" So perfect.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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If tonight's tweets abt not giving up in your 20s/30s don't apply, then let them fly. No one is saying you're washed up @ 30. Those tweets are for those who think it's over for them if they haven't _____ by their 20s/30s. I was 49 when Church Ladies came out. Hold on. Keep going.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

4 years

Some disinfectant and shea butter I ordered back in April arrived today. Never give up.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

I have 2 dream meetings today that I could never have imagined when I walked out of my corporate job in the middle of the day in 2019, resigning via a one-sentence email while standing on the sidewalk in front of the building. 1/5

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

4 years

I LOVE getting edits back from editors. I’m not precious about my writing. For me, it’s like math. I’m trying to solve something, and sometimes it’s trial and error and estimating. And a good editor helps me get as close as I can to the right answers. Good editing is a gift.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

THANK YOU to the judges and to everyone at @penfaulkner !

PEN/Faulkner Foundation

@penfaulkner

3 years

THREAD 👇 We are so excited to announce that @DeeshaPhilyaw 's The Secret Lives of Church Ladies ( @WVUPRESS ) has been selected as the winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Back to my friend: I told them that the abuser didn’t deserve access to them, and they said it was hard to accept that what was happening was abuse. Mainly because it was verbal and emotional abuse happening online at the hands of someone who claimed to be a friend.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Get an MFA. Don’t get an MFA. Why can’t people just do what works for them and mind the fucking business that pays them?

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

I love it when poets write prose.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

THANK YOU to @TheStoryPrize judges and to all of you who have supported and celebrated me and “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” in so many loving ways! Watch the ceremony, including my acceptance speech, here:

WVU Press

@WVUPRESS

3 years

Big news: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is the first book from a university press (or small press of any kind) to win the @TheStoryPrize for best collection of short fiction. Congrats to author @DeeshaPhilyaw , who joins recent winners Edwidge Danticat and Lauren Groff!

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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I delight in telling my close friends everything. From my deepest longings and fears, to the most frivolous musings & wishes. Because for decades, including in two long marriages, I kept so much, too much, to myself. Shame and secrets make/keep you sick. My friends are medicine.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

My book turns 2 today! 🎉 THANK YOU to everyone who has read, reviewed, shared, and otherwise celebrated and supported Church Ladies! Special thanks to @WVUPRESS @PushkinPress @daniellechiotti @vestopr @blueflowerarts @TessaThompson_x @hbomax @iToriSampson ❤️🙏🏾🍑!

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Last night, listening to my ancestors and my intuition led me to have a difficult, awkward conversation with someone and make a hard decision that was absolutely in my best interest. Now and beyond, I will always choose me.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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Someone asked why we dressed like paralegals as teens in the 80s. I don’t know. But I didn’t stop until I was good and 35.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

These days, the only place I consider “well-ventilated” is outside.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Jokes aside, the bonnet thing is emblematic of respectability shit, yes, but it's also related to a broader traditional evangelical Christian mindset that pits women against each other, including women in the same family....

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

I purchased new dresses for spring and summer AND THEY ALL HAVE POCKETS.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

4 years

How it started::::::::::::How it’s going

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

*Blacker than Pittsburgh

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Thing I’m not looking forward to now that I’m going to be in physical social settings again: the expectation of small talk.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Wearing slips

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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Letting go of the need to be fully understood and not misrepresented is so freeing. I used to be relentless about both, but now I just don’t care. I will explain myself once (if I feel that’s warranted), and that’s it.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Swizz commented that he talked to Steve during the break 🤣

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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In 2007, I had the honor of attending Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Summer Writers’ Week. There, I workshopped a novel that I still haven’t finished, but I took away something more important: The confidence and belief in myself as a writer and in the stories I want to tell. 1/

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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@blktinabelcher I turned my corner at 46. It got better not because I older, but because I finally cut loose/healed all that was holding me back. 30 is arbitrary. You’ll get there. ❤️

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Good morning, Miami!

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

So basically I’m just going to live out of a suitcase in 2022 and visit all of y’all. #havepugwilltravel

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

deleting the dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way: he’s a local activist fighting against gentrification who believes success is NOTHING w/o someone you love to share it with; I, an aspiring fashion designer-turned-model, pour milk into his bullhorn

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

@RhythmKeene Beanie weenies - Jacksonville, FL

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Sometimes, writing is opening up a vein. Other times, it’s googling, “Is salad dressing a condiment?” (It’s not.)

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Good morning to men with the salt and pepper in their beards and to them only.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

It was a close call, but I just minded the business that pays me. Please clap.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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I'm thrilled to be following in the big, brilliant footsteps of @MauriceRuffin , @aimeenez , Beth Ann Fennelly, and my dearest, my ace @KieseLaymon , among others. I’m excited for this tremendous opportunity to finish my novel and to work with UM students. Thank you!

MississippiMFA

@MississippiMFA

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Throw confetti in the air: So pleased to welcome @DeeshaPhilyaw to the @MississippiMFA program as the 2022-23 John & Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence!! Good things in store for us all! Mississippi!

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

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As someone who does “know how fiction works” 🙄, I think people are being obtuse suggesting there’s no difference between including details from real life/real people in fiction and what the Cat Person writer did.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

THANK YOU!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

WVU Press

@WVUPRESS

3 years

Congratulations to @DeeshaPhilyaw , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the first fiction category! Watch for the announcement of winners at @latimesbooks on 4/16.

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Didn’t think I’d be spending my first book anniversary waylaid by flash-flooding in Breezewood, PA, but here we are! 🎈🎉🥳

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Chess with… For Juneteenth… I’m hyperventilating.

Pittsburgh Police

@PghPolice

3 years

Juneteenth Kickoff Festival, Chess with Cops, Stop the Violence Prayer Vigil, and more. 📸 See photos from last week’s community engagement over on our Facebook page ➡️

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Yes! 🙌🏾

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When you open up your Publisher' Marketplace Today's Deals email and the first thing you see are two Black women out here doing the damn thing. Congrats @DeeshaPhilyaw & @zakiya_harris !

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

4 years

Other countries are entering full lockdown again and we're *gestures wildly*

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

Why didn’t they just jump him?

Certified Cry Baby🧘🏿‍♀️💣

@chakrabomb

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Niggas out here freely admitting and arguing about being openly weird.

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I'll never stop quoting Toni Morrison who said the whole point of getting power is to empower someone else. I can't support everyone who needs it, but I try to do what I can. And that's all anyone of us can do: the best we can. 5/5

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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Time for a nightcap

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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I love seeing these growing numbers of Black women writers with assistants and email autoresponders set up, all to support rest, healing, and self care.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.” — from “Solitude” by Warsan Shire

darius.

@_dariussimpson

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what’s a random line of poetry you say aloud or in ya head from time to time unprovoked?

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Friend (to me): I'm reading your book for book club. Today I can't find my copy and I'm searching all over for it. ::: 2 HOURS LATER::: Friend’s 16-year-old son (to her): You really should finish this book. The first few pages are quite horny. Friend: I am now traumatized.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

@mikey_osmond The Delta variant like…

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

And HR isn't your friend or advocate either. HR exists ultimately to protect the company, not you. (But I agree with this tweet.)

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As an HR Professional, allow me to remind y’all that your coworkers are NOT your friends. If the opportunity arises, they WILL snitch on you. Period. It is what it is 🤷🏾‍♀️

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

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Might write a meet cute story based on this awkward run-in I had earlier with the handsome man in the hotel room next door 🤔

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@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Writers are particularly vulnerable b/c typically we've experienced years of rejection and/or bs so when an agent, editor, or publisher finally says "yes," we risk accepting bs terms b/c we're so grateful & happy to be there. And there are folks who will take advantage of this.

Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Writers *should* compare and talk about their experiences with agents. I have been lately, and wow. Some writers are being poorly served by their agents, if not outright manipulated and taken advantage of.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

Writers *should* compare and talk about their experiences with agents. I have been lately, and wow. Some writers are being poorly served by their agents, if not outright manipulated and taken advantage of.

Eric, book publisher 📚

@eric5310pub

3 years

Never compare publishers/agents. Every publisher is unique, focuses on different niches, and has varied priorities… 🐧 Penguin, for example, sells more novels per day than I could sell in a whole year… it’s not a fair comparison. 📚

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

At the stroke of midnight, I will be the mother of two adults.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

2 years

@davenewworld_2 So killing unarmed Black people is fine, but an orgy is where they draw the line.

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Deesha Philyaw

@DeeshaPhilyaw

3 years

The way Democrats deal with Republicans now is the way Nice White Folks have always wanted us to deal with white supremacy and racism (systemic and otherwise): Let’s pretend like nothing really bad has happened and BE CIVIL.

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