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Samiya Bashir

6 months

New Song Whodis? Have a listen!

Created in response to a difficult moment in time, “Dark Matters” is a new seven-minute work commissioned by the Capital University Choral Department and the Conservatory of Music.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

I’m *beyond thrilled* to share that I’ve begun a new chapter, accepting appointment as the new Executive Director of Lambda Literary! #lambda #lambdaliterary #lgbtq #lgbtqcommunity #books #publishing

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Samiya Bashir

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5 years

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

Today I get to share some big big news ya’ll. It is with a belly full of joy, fire, and gratitude, that I’m stepping into the Executive Director role at @lambdaliterary —our beloved literary organization that has served LGBTQIA+ writers, their projects, …

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

Omg i just won an Oregon Book award — I mean a couple of hours ago after I lost my phone lol

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

I might note, love, that in the past 5 years there have been TWO black winners and NO women. Claudia (& so so many) slides into the invisible middle that Hull, Scott, & Smith outlined back in the 80s with “All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave”

Saeed Jones

@theferocity

6 years

The Pulitzer winners and finalists for poetry for the last few years have been resoundingly white which just feels like a willfully ignorant rejection of reality. For example: Claudia Rankine’s CITIZEN wasn’t even a *finalist* for the Pulitzer Prize. Embarrassing for the canon.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

“Prof. Samiya Bashir [creative writing 2012–] has won a prestigious Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome to honor artists and scholars who represent ‘the highest standard of excellence’“ Poet Wins Rome Prize

Poet Wins Rome Prize

Prof. Samiya Bashir named as a fellow by the American Academy in Rome.

www.reed.edu

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

tl;dw Been in the hospital all week. Got Lyme disease in my magic covid-seaside-exile because 2020 got jokes. I have no laptop, no tablet (this was um unplanned lol) and so I’ve missed all the Zooms, owe all the email returns, please be patient with me. Love y’all. ❤️💕❤️

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

@ThatSeaSlutAy @becca_oneal @DimeHatesYou not “like an underwater R. Kelly”!! Not the Water Weinstein’s! 💀💀💀💀😭😭😭

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Woke up remembering...we are coping across the distance ... Roman Style. Here’s to us all finding and making more magic today...the ides of March might be upon us but like...we are still beautiful. 🌹

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

Listen ... we are out here making this magic!! ✨✨✨

Author Chuck Forester Donates $250K to Lambda Literary

Lambda executive director Samiya Bashir called Forester's gift

www.publishersweekly.com

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

Just beauty. Just family. Just love. @DanteMicheaux helping @adrian_matejka get that bow tie straight 🙌🏾🌺💕

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

7 years

Awwww like ... remember when #MattDamon was just a mildly handsome, obviously small-dicked, standard issue #Boston racist before he tried to do too much — like speak?

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

Day 1 slayed. Ready for Day 2? #stayready #awp19 #awp19fashionfeed

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

7 years

Sooooooo SOMEBOD(Y)/(IES) just got TENURE at @Reed_College_ ! (woop!) What a week and it’s not…

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

I actually don't have to tell you a gotdamned thing about my history of sexual assault, nor need I perform even a moment of interiority, of pain, of wrestling, or of healing, and you know what? That shit still matters.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

3 years

literally every cat on every zoom is a savior

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

... awlawd y’all ... I’m writing poems again :: POEMS!! Imagine. I might even begin to remember how to write emails soon but let’s not go get all ahead of ourselves yet. *takes breath, looks to sky* Poems! Imagine.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

1 year

Lambda Literary Enters a New Chapter “Building the organization’s capacity to combat anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, Bashir said, she wants to position Lambda as the go-to organization for support and professional development for LGBTQ writers.” via @publisherswkly

Lambda Literary Enters a New Chapter

The 35-year-old organization is amping up its advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ writers.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

3 years

@zellieimani 51 biiiiish & grateful for every good day of unpromised thrival

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Oof. I felt this in my bones

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

"Most days America screams to anyone who’ll listen how it hates me so much it would rather kill us all than let me live. Home." Letter From Exile: Finding Home in a Pandemic @scryptkeeper via @lithub

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

Oooooooo good times are afoot! Excited to rock the 1s & 2s of poems this summer. Come on the ride with me this June — and with this amazing group of Poets all year!

Academy of American Poets

@POETSorg

6 years

We're happy to introduce our twelve new #PoemADay Guest Editors for 2019! @tctigercakes74 @ClintSmithIII @maggiesmithpoet @EduardoCCorral @VChangPoet @scryptkeeper @PaulGuestUVA @ruthellenkocher @Oliver_delaPaz @SherwinBitsui @PaisleyRekdal Read more:

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Out here with @Powell_DA lookin at pitcher booty :: singing Journey because :: shouting for the #Giants :: living our best lives on a beautiful summer day *squeal*

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

1 year

I mean ... I love it when people read my poems. But I love it even more when they can HEAR them! <3

Academy of American Poets

@POETSorg

1 year

Listen to Samiya Bashir read “Some days of wine and pastry” @scryptkeeper #PoemADay

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

America :: A Mood

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

1 year

I couldn't be more proud of this work. Thank you to everyone who has supported me as I take this organization into a bright future. Let's go!

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

Mood of the Month: #BlackHistoryMonth2019

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

lol this is the longwindedest way to say “colonialism” I’ve seen in ... hours.

The Art Institute of Chicago

@artinstitutechi

5 years

During the Age of Exploration, European goldsmiths created works of art celebrating both nature and artifice, making use of wondrous, seemingly magical substances suddenly available to them—such as ivory, ostrich eggs, and, here, a nautilus shell from the Indian Ocean. #NowOnView

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

Y'all! Look at us! I'm SO PROUD of this stellar crew that is working together to pave @LambdaLiterary 's next big roads! Look at us grow! Welcome to all the new staffers--including the new keeper of the Review, @SuziG !--and stay tuned for more about our growing team's work!

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

Well the news is out: NICOLE SEALEY AND I ARE GOING TO ROME!!!! ❤️🙌🏾❤️✨❤️ (and then the ceremony is downstairs from my sis @torkwase ’s show at @cooperunion !! I am speechless…

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

1 year

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 we did it!!!

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

REPEATEDLY confirmed by witnesses so go in head and lift your dropped jaw back up because (and I cannot stress this enough) SOME OF US HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU FOR YEARS AND YEARS THAT THIS IS WHAT THEY DO while pushing the narrative that we are destructive for no damned reason.

chris 2

@triviaspeach

4 years

its cops undercover setting buildings on fire. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEAN

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

@Stovotone @neuviemedelta @KnoxClarksville @pvtodorov @metaauthor @JohnT15 @importantmeagan define “in”

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

7 years

Who’s been offering the best congrats for my tenure promotion at @Reed_College_ ?? My students! Former/current/dream — loves! Thanks for making me love my job. ❤️🙌🏾✨

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Forgive a bourgie-ass stunt but my black-ass is literally the ONLY person in first-class on this whole flight & if you could see these YT folks faces... it should be the cover of my next book. These faces are the ENTIRE reason I upgrade. It’s like white-tear-gelato. *chefskiss*

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

Sooooooooooo Mesmeriiiiiiiiizing

Entobird 🐜

@entobird

6 years

Movement of the rain-forest canopy, Mexico 🧩

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

We love to see it.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Nobody: Literally. Not one. Body. In Latin: NEMINEM Bob Hicok, Poet—As in someone who works ... words... ... ...

The Promise of American Poetry – Utne

Poetry now is more reflective of the makeup, tensions, desires, and needs of a broader swath of Americans than ever before.

www.utne.com

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

Let’s dare.

PEN America

@PENamerica

7 years

"For some of us, to speak at all, to speak even amongst ourselves, to speak even simply to affirm our beauty or laugh our own moments of joy, can be daring." —Samiya Bashir

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

I WAS DREAMING I WAS WRITING AND THEN JUST TURNED OVER AND IT WAS A DREAM AND NOW I HAVE TO WRITE IT ALL DOWN ALL OVER AGAIN OMG SO MAD

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

oh yeah also I just did a thing with my hair. #PoemADay

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

🌈🌹✊🏾 thank you 🥂

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

HEH—I mean—Whatchu NOT finna do is miss the blackest #goodgood #PDX got for #AWP19 —drankin, dancin, sweatin, poemin, look-turnin, out-actin, whatchu need, prolly grab a plate or sumpn too. Come thru. It’s the only reasonable thing to do. 🤷🏾‍♀️

a hater in harlem.

@fatpastorbart

6 years

Are you partying with us during #AWP19 ? It's the only reasonable thing to do. Cc: @scryptkeeper

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

“What I wanted to know was: can a novel be a city?” says Roy. “Can you stop it being baby food, which can be easily consumed? So the reader also has to deal with complexities that they are being trained not to deal with.”

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

😮🤭☺️😊😎😍✨🙌🏾🐾

Bettering American Poetry

@BetteringPoetry

6 years

CONGRATULATIONS!! to @scryptkeeper whose poem "Field Theories" JUST GOT A FREAKING PUSHCART!! Samiya's poem is reprinted in @BetteringPoetry Volume 2, and was originally published at @ANMLY_LIT and in her collection from @nightboatbooks ! 🏆🏆🏆

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

1 year

Y'all -- I am SO EXCITED to bring this life-changing experience back in person this year with @LambdaLiterary !! "More broadly, I’d say queer literature is A Thing, it is a force and a community, and it is in flux.” - Lambda Retreat Fellow @StephenOrBell

LGBTQ Writers Find Their Voice at Lambda Literary Retreat

Lambda’s Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices returns to an in-person format this summer.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Racism is just so exhausting. Like. Folks. The whole “I haven’t had that experience so can’t talk” thing that “woke” white folks say like: how y’all never see what’s happening right in front of you...Never ending. I know I’m back in Portland so it’s extra but Still So Exhausting.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

@RitaMookerjee Hi yes @LambdaLiterary is here. We don't know. Please DM me. We'll figure this out. Thanks.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

This Italian woman I sat with asked who my fave American writers are. Do I like, for example, Philip Roth? Have I read Franzen? At some point she said (perhaps because I’m not good at fixing my face) that she liked some women writers too. Couldn’t remember their names though.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

The message of Best of Enemies isn’t that “love conquers all!” It’s that Black people should continue to jeopardize their own safety, peace and well-being by coddling and befriending violently racist white people for the mere chance to “change their hearts and minds.”

Shadow and Act

@shadowandact

6 years

"If you expect to watch anything other than a Klansman redemption story, well, that’s on you." #TheBestOfEnemies , worst of white savior movies [REVIEW]

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

8 years

Word.

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

9 years

Upon being the first Blk man to earn a PhD from Harvard, WEB DuBois said: "The honor, I assure you, was Harvard's."

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

7 years

#Poetry : “a tight, condensed empathy delivery system” - @KavehAkbar #pdxbookfest #Wordstock2017

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

9 years

The FIRST ever reunion of the Combahee River Collective. Y'all. Y'ALL! #feministpoeticsumass

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Sorry you weren’t at the Roman opera house with me last night. I kinda feel like both of us slayed the evening.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Today I stood up for myself and my art and I really need to do that more. I know it seems like that’s something I always do. And it should be. And today, at least, it was.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Y’all. Priscilla Benedetti is out here snatching light and seeing souls to make portraits that are out of this world and if you don’t know now you know and look how lucky I am.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

Today I get to share some big big news ya’ll. It is with a belly full of joy, fire, and gratitude, that I’m stepping into the Executive Director role at @lambdaliterary —our beloved literary organization that has served LGBTQIA+ writers, their projects, …

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

7 years

Well well well what sweet sunny day news — I love (like:love!) every single one of these books. Honored to learn that #FieldTheories was chosen to go finalisting for the #FirecrackerAwards with such great #poets and #poems . #swoon

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

@ZanBanger @NotYourName @tressiemcphd @ennasirk Lol @ “I like white people stuff in a North by Northwest, but not Arrested Development, kind of way” like that’s an entire cultural map in a tweet and I —

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

SCHOOL’s! OUT! FOR...??? (i mean but will we ever school again who can say) — so I figure I should maybe return to the socials whatevers we’re calling here now again so cool yeah hi am I doing it right?

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

I miss my cat so here’s a picture of me and a random dog who played with me on the beach. Every bit of which experience my cat would, and I cannot stress this enough, hate. 🤙🏾

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

1 year

Have y'all seen @lambdaliterary 's **NEW LAMBDA LITERARY REVIEW**?!? Redesigned, Rebuilt, and Reborn -- check it out! Editor @SuziG is publishing new reviews, interviews, and guest content on the regular! Sign up to stay up!

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

THIS MONTH IS ALL THE POEMTHINGS! I am so honored to have had the opportunity to dream with, and present to the world, twenty badass #queer , #femme , #gnc , #enby , and #women #poets of color from all over the country this month. Don't miss a single one. You'll be glad! @POETSorg

Nightboat Books

@nightboatbooks

5 years

Check out this interview with Samiya Bashir in celebration of being June 2019 Poem-a-Day Guest Editor @scryptkeeper @POETSorg

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Hey Loves — while on a bit of a Roman lockdown, I’ll share this video of my installation piece since the exhibition is suspended for a while ❤️

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

And then there was that one time I also made yet another art but in #roma

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Perfect. No — the MOST perfect.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

Ohai y’all are being so sweet right now I can hardly get the onions outta my eyes 💕🎈

Lambda Literary

@LambdaLiterary

2 years

We are thrilled to announce that renowned poet, artist, writer, performer, educator, and advocate Samiya Bashir has joined as Lambda Literary’s Executive Director!

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

Will she write my syllabus?

Chelsea B DesAutels

@cbdesautels

4 years

My 5yo daughter called me outside to show me this: “I built a poem!” 😭😍

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

Just out here makin the BB magic with my sis @carmengimenezzzz ! @graywolfpress is such a critically important space in writing, in publishing, in art discourse, that I am grateful to everyone there for their work, and for bringing in this BB to take the…

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

“I don’t want to be liked, boys. I want to be free “

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Now I wanna write an entire book called White Tear Gelato about my year in Italy and damn this is how I get myself all fucked up.

Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Forgive a bourgie-ass stunt but my black-ass is literally the ONLY person in first-class on this whole flight & if you could see these YT folks faces... it should be the cover of my next book. These faces are the ENTIRE reason I upgrade. It’s like white-tear-gelato. *chefskiss*

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

One second of News and I literally hate everything with whatever is left of my whole heart. One second without News and I miss like 37 1/2 US-led genocides. How to choose ... 🚬🚬🚬

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

On a train headed to Firenze and everyone is all masked up and drenched in antibacterial gel...Not me. Sigh. Here’s to not getting the plague 🙌🏾 What a very strange apocalypse this is. So sunny, despite the locusts. Who knew the end of the world would still have so many Mondays?

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

7 years

Someone just said the word “interrobang” to me. In ordinary conversation: I’d like for that to happen more often please. Thanks.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

I can’t stop thinking about the time, late this afternoon, when I helped a very old lady up some stairs and it was the best feeling I’ve had all day...and also maybe for many days. The way she reached for my hand, and I gave it, and...it was everything beautiful & human. 🙌🏾✨🌹

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

y’all I tweet this because is it even real anymore? Me: literally packed (again), dressed, approximately-faced, redlipped (despite mask I’m stubborn) about to put on my shoes— PA: walks in & has me sit down talmbout “So a funny thing happened at the lab blahblah spinal fluid”😭

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@scryptkeeper

4 years

I'M GOING #IGLive ! Stuck @ home and wish somebody would read you a story? Well...you're in luck. 7:30pm EDT starting tonight! Toni Morrison's SONG OF SOLOMON! I'll be reading it to my two little cousins--and you!--for 30 minutes each night until we finish the book. Join us!

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@scryptkeeper

5 years

It’s been decades since I learned that “Ypsilanti” was not a native / Huron word, but Greek. Decades. I’m still shooketh. My childhood never ceases to colonize me. Also, I spent many many of my childhood years living on a street called COLONY WAY. Fight me. Cuz I’m still mad.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

I entirely fixed a whole-ass appliance yesterday all by myself so I’m just sayin y’all bet not miss me stuntin’ all these pandemic skills post-lockdown — I’ll be the one driving the getaway rocket that I MacGiver-rigged myself so just jump on in...the music is bumpin.

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@scryptkeeper

7 years

Just a li'l reminder about that time when I invented selfies. #BlackGirlMagic ✨😍🤣

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

8 years

Women. Sisters. Nonbinaries. Dudes. Allies. Loving humans. I am so proud of who we are today & how we are standing up & showing out. #resist

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Breaking News: This news is in no way breaking.

chris evans

@notcapnamerica

5 years

Two Harvard studies converge on a conclusion that black women are judged more harshly for their mistakes. A black woman can say something that’s 90% right and they will pick apart the error. A white man says something 60% correct and people will see the merit.

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5 years

PANTS WITHOUT POCKETS BOTHER ME SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH*!!!!!!!!! *also eugenicist white-supremacist plutocratic fascism. too: AND POCKETS!

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Today. Thanksgiving a Roma. With thanks to @Afaa_Weaver who planted this poem, “Thanks,” by WS Merwin, into my body. And with burning gratitude to @iluvlight for recording and sharing. I was supposed to read one of mine...but my body. I’m learning to listen to it. @AmAcademyRome

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Folks, I’m just here to say the obvious: @Powell_DA opens the heart. 🙌🏾❤️

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

can i be every mood in this photo? cuz i am.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Today’d be my grandfather’s 100th birthday. I miss him more than I can say. He’d be in a hospital making masks happen for Detroit healthcare workers right NOW & you’d never know who cuz he’d keep the light on THEM. I’m staying inside cuz I love all your grandparents too—and you.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

“Lambda Literary has long been a small but mighty organization swinging far above its weight in the literary arts...We are proud to have made it through the worst of the past few years and come out stronger and more determined than ever.”

Author Chuck Forester Donates $250K to Lambda Literary

Lambda executive director Samiya Bashir called Forester's gift

www.publishersweekly.com

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

The best day!!!

D. A. Powell

@Powell_DA

2 years

@scryptkeeper Yes!!!

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

@CrystalWilki 👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾😬 also @misstisab @PercivalEverett Renee Gladman @r_erica_doyle ++++++

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

I don’t care how many times you’ve seen it watch it again.

Mary Wilson

@TheeMaryWilson

4 years

Monroe High School teachers in Georgia started the 1st day of virtual school in the most 🔥 way ever

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

4 years

okay so i REMAIN so blown away by this beautiful mural @intisarabioto and crew created in #Portland , right down from my old cribbo, with poetry from me and beloved #NikkyFinney and images of people I love both in person and in my dreams. Oh PDX...you hold so much sweetness. and--

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

6 years

Well I just walked by a trio of ravens sharing a bowl of quinoa and spinach because #Reed 🤷🏾‍♀️✨

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

3 years

Hey wow - a little sweetness to pour on all this sour 🔥✨✊🏾♥️ Thanks 2022 Best of the Net!

Ecotone Magazine

@EcotoneMagazine

3 years

Congrats to @scryptkeeper , whose poem “HOW NOT TO STAY UNSHOT IN THE U.S.A.” was selected for the 2022 Best of the Net anthology! Bashir’s poem first appeared on our website and was later printed in An Ecotone Almanac. [1/2]

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

I have literally been EVERY SINGLE ONE of these kitties and it’s not even 2:30pm

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

2 years

Ohai I suppose I should finally announce that YA GURL was just awarded a NYSCA Grant to complete revisions on I HOPE THIS HELPS--the installation poem I began in Rome which hung for about 2 weeks before the whole exhibition was shuttered by COVID. EXCITED!

I Hope This Helps 2020 Samiya Bashir

Samiya Bashir--I Hope This Helps, 2020Ink and acrylic on cloth, wire, brackets, 20 pieces, 2m x 1.25m eachStandard - [heraldry] a long, tapering flag or ensi...

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Samiya Bashir

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4 years

mother does what mother wants

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

8 years

Whew! After the last 2 weeks of nonstop online & PR terror, I think about 300 million people needed that. Thanks @POTUS #DemsInPhilly #obama

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

Oop. Y’all capitalist marketing madmen can’t stop me from getting my black-ass needs met so how bout that.

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Samiya Bashir

@scryptkeeper

5 years

So basically i just drove from the tip of Cape Cod to Southern Virginia, smooth and slow (had a close cop-call last week in the backwoods of MO), mostly without stopping except late late last night in order to not-sleep. Basically I just didn’t want to get shot. I made it. ❤️

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