Kambili’s Bookshelf 📚🖋

Writer.! Reader of queer and badass literature from around the world. Words are lit over here 💥

[K @Kokketsog]

There is a SILENT GENOCIDE happening in Congo🇨🇩, which means that people are not aware of it because there is no social media or news broadcasts about it…here’s what you should know (THREAD)

[Angie Thomas @angiecthomas]

50 is light work. I had over 300 for the first iteration of my middle grade fantasy novel. 12 years later, a reworked version of that book debuted at #1 on the NYT and has multiple film offers.

You may get hundreds of rejections, but you have to keep going ❤️.

[Kambili’s Bookshelf 📚🖋 @book_mill]

Or making up plots involving skincare (read: beauty in all forms) and death

[Mis Leading @FaatiTheStreet]

Cannot emphasize strongly enough the importance of not falling into nihilism or pessimism as you’re being made aware of Just how Evil these systems of oppression are:

Nihilism and pessimism are ALSO tools of oppression, hope is revolutionary and so is optimism!

[latke @latkedelrey]

one of the keys to finding joy even in hard times times is to stop getting in your own way. choose to show up, choose to be present, choose to be amongst the living even when you don’t necessarily want to be. i’m trying to do that more. i wasted many days alone in my own head

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Enough!

It is just horror after horror after horror.

Remember these precious and beautiful lives. They are human beings with names and faces. And they are being indiscriminately slaughtered.

What unconscionable inhumanity. We need a ceasefire, now.

[Kambili’s Bookshelf 📚🖋 @book_mill]

@HayleyReeseChow All Over Me - Aurah, Lindsey Harper

Sounds so beautiful to me.

Also So Amazing, Luther Vandross

[ayan. @artan_ayan]

The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away.

[Kambili’s Bookshelf 📚🖋 @book_mill]

@RebeccaPapin How beautiful is this 😭🫶🏾

[Kambili’s Bookshelf 📚🖋 @book_mill]

Omg I do this!

[It’s Levels To Thissss @FlawsofCouture]

Y’all. COME LOOK at brilliance. It’s giving very much self-checkout & I’m TOTALLY here for it👀👏🏾

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

People in Gaza are dying in the darkness.

This unthinkable horror cannot be undone — and history will not forgive those who refused to treat Israeli and Palestinian lives with equal worth.

Please, we need a ceasefire, now.

[𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚊 🌱 @gaialect]

so with that being said… building lasting and healthy functional relationships with people, requires leaving our comfort zone a lot of the time. leaving our comfort zone could mean, forcing ourselves to communicate what’s on our mind when that doesn’t come natural to us.

[joseph @jojoldn]

seems like 2023 has been a transitional year for a lot of ppl. the year of realising things

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

Look, I cannot take seriously anyone claiming beauty standards have nothing to do with gender conformity when the most common way people call a woman ugly is to say she looks like a man.

[Izzy Wylde @izzdashiz]

A dating app, but for finding a partner who owns more than 400 books, visits their local library multiple times, goes to events at independent bookshops, and whose life goal is to live in a castle with a library with hidden passages and a rolling ladder

[Hals is closed to queries✨ @halswarrington]

Hopping into another draft already…? ✔️ (yep sounds like me)

☀️ old money
🫀 sapphic marriage of convenience
☀️ childhood friends to enemies to lovers
🫀 business merging & deals
☀️ slow burn
🫀 closed off vs. heart on her sleeve

[_S🦂 @Sadeee_x]

used to work in a coffee shop in 39th and Lennox. He would come in every Wednesday on his lunch break and get the special with a hot chocolate. My manager used to be tripping cause we supposed to use water, I would always use milk and cream for him cause I thought he was sweet 👀