Melanated Culture Lives

est. 2017 | Culture Bearer | Creole Traiteur | Storyteller | Heaven Sent Us To Bring Peace To Hell ✨🪶.

[Melanated Culture Lives @4DaHuemans]

Tune into our debut book club Author Talk with “One and Done” San Francisco-based author, @fsmith827 📖‼️

Frederick Smith gives us a clearer lens of the San Francisco Bay Area and how Queer Communities of Color navigate in Northern California 🌴🌊.

#BookClub #BlackAuthors

[Melanated Culture Lives @4DaHuemans]

What are y’all currently reading????

#Books

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

So, I’m reading a novel called #CakeWalk by Douglas Bell and it’s so juicy + based in Houston with buku Houston references 🔥.

His gay guy friend caught him at a queer restaurant with his white trans girlfriend, and when they got to work da next day he was reading him for filth!

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

He’s in a space of coming out bit by bit, some by his own will and some by da force of fait!

I won’t spoil anymore rn lmao.

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

BABY IT IS TEAAAAA 🍵.

Mindju he is divorced with two chirrun and a baby mama from da SOUFSIDE and a Southern homophobic and transphobic MAMA who sent him to an all white Catholic school as a child 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

Houston ZOWN!

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

So, I’m reading a novel called #CakeWalk by Douglas Bell and it’s so juicy + based in Houston with buku Houston references 🔥.

His gay guy friend caught him at a queer restaurant with his white trans girlfriend, and when they got to work da next day he was reading him for filth!

[Frederick Smith (he/him) @fsmith827]

My novel Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, Contemporary MM Romance, is out 6/16/26 on @boldstrokebooks.

I've got several in-person and online book events coming up to promote the book. Please join!

https://t.co/ltvixwWL9z

#MMRomance

[stony morrison, PhD @rrandolphjr]

Stephanie Y. Evans, Black Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books (2024)

[TWLOHA @TWLOHA]

A few of our favorite reminders and encouragements. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[⚜︎ @carmilith]

the gallant creole south

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

Rainbow Girls is such a good + funny short film 😆🫶🏾.

https://t.co/CbgTeWqtm4

[Kye @GxldSociety]

Why Do Fools Fall in Love remains one of the most unforgettable music biopics of the late 90s ❤️🎶

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

24/7 streaming culture is so weird to me idk….

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

NASHVILLE: “If a data center project is not good for a zoo, it’s not good for an HBCU.”

Rep. @brotherjones_, students, alumni at @Fisk1866 U opposed a mysteriously-funded on-campus data center project shrouded in secrecy.

(His environmental racism class was abruptly canceled🤔)

[Philip Leventhal @PhilipLeventhal]

"This brilliant and often moving book models a revelatory methodology for talking about the work of Black archive-building."

SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS, by Laura Helton reviewed in the *African American Review.* https://t.co/Nt5oDYKaOa @ColumbiaUP

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

A dozen kisses boy 🫵🏾 always on my mind 🧠
We at da Second Line, so I know this love’s divine ✨❤️‍🔥🌹.

#Listen to “A Dozen Roses” Q-Mix 🎶👇🏾.
@SoundCloud: Quinn94
@YouTube: Quinnfos
@audiomack: Quinnfos21

🌐: https://t.co/WspTrMHgCJ

[grace nicole. @graacenicole]

I love it too. This is a yap and sit on the porch all day type of state

[The Filé in Your Gumbo @BelleRideaux]

This is very TX & LA culture.

I kept telling ppl how crazy it was that o kept meeting ppl from TX & LA on Greece & then I was like duh girl, we the only ppl that’s just randomly striking up conversations with each other lmaooo

[Melanated Culture Lives @4DaHuemans]

🌊🌊🌊📚📖

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

“The water cries because it retains our secrets.”

—Anthony Griffin 🌊

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

“A Latina in a neat navy dress appeared & introduced herself as Elana.

Bryan almost breathed an audible sigh of relief that she was what his mother needed to feel comfortable.

He hated that she had so little room for different people.”

—Douglas Bell, Cake Walk, 2nd Edition 📚

[gianni @GianChiani06]

public libraries by Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000)

[Quinn 🪶 @QuinnFos]

MOST people in da city will tell ya something and NOT follow through if it’s not right then and there.

If a nigga say he gon do something make sure ya get it done while it’s on his mind, cause once y’all not in each other’s presence they lying 🤣🤣🤣.