sherell.

(she/her) | writer | DJ | editor ✨

[sherell. @sherellbee]

Me at the Finding Dory premier:

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

we can’t keep starting new litmags every five years while the ones our predecessors built lie in shallow graves. let’s dig them up, resurrect what we can, and ensure their survival. this is how we will build an ecosystem that outlives us.

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

read and support african literary magazines.
read @lolwe_
read @sarabamag
read @doeklitmag
read @iselemagazine
read @kalaharireview
read @podapodasl
read @omenanamag
and many others out there doing the work!

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

A few of the many exquisite hand-drawn "infographics" produced by students of scholar + civil-rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, who died #onthisday 1963. More from the series, presented in “The Exhibit of American Negroes” at the 1900 Paris Expo, here: https://t.co/Q1PPLwD13o #OTD

[sherell. @sherellbee]

@julianakilrose Check out @SankofaDC a Black-owned cafe/bookstore that sometimes hosts cute events

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

🗣️“BUT IT’S A SPLIT THAT’S MASKED WHEN WE CLAIM THIS UNIVERSAL ‘BLACKNESS’, AS IF EXPERIENTIALLY, WE ALL LIVE WITH THE SAME VULNERABILITY TO THE POLICE AND POVERTY!”

[buy Fenestration @Othuke__Umukoro]

—Hanif Abdurraqib

[Big Nasty ☭ @keepaustinnasty]

Watch how her comrades held onto her when the cop grabbed her. Then the white woman stood between her and the cop. That’s how you do it.

[Henry Hicks IV @hbhicks4]

My latest for @inthesetimesmag on the “cultural drag ban” affecting pro-Palestine drag queens, the erasure of queer Palestinians, and the movement for Palestine's fight to return Pride to its original, liberatory roots. W/ @queeringthemap_, @LilMissHotMess, and more! (Link below)

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

"Building a deliberately time-consuming photographic process is as much a political statement as the photographs themselves, pushing back against the digital deluge of images and information that floods our modern lives." https://t.co/wlSgd3Sd1y

[sherell. @sherellbee]

"The primary issue facing queer and trans people in Palestine is the occupation and genocide perpetrated by Israel. You can’t move towards queer liberation if you’re being bombed and occupied."
Latest by @hbhicks4 for @inthesetimesmag
https://t.co/5ZOG1Sy2xe

[SIENOTE 💵 @NOPussBoys_]

The St. Louis American (& it still exists today) since 1928

[Bill @wjneumire]

“I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live.”

Nikki Giovanni

[Late Model Toyota Previa @LMToyotaPrevia]

The work of Dr. Selamawit D. Terrefe (1970-2024)

Here are 16 documents

https://t.co/C3PA9gFLR1

[5hahem @shaTIRED]

what to do when ice is at your door

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

Two new moving and powerful poems for this moment from @goldenthem.

https://t.co/jXjqkx26Lz

[aquila 🫀 @belllmonts]

i'm going to be clinging to things like art, community, and empathy not just in the days to come, not just in the following years, but my entire life. those are the only things that make sense to me even when the rest of the world doesn't

[Interdependent Study Podcast @interstudypod]

✨ EPISODE 176! ✨

In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Black-Palestinian Solidarity in Moments of Crisis and Beyond” by Nashwa Bawab in @inthesetimesmag.

[pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl]

If you get arrested at a protest say: (1) I don't consent to a search, (2) I want an attorney, (3) I am going to remain silent.

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

"To build a revolutionary culture is to keep our dreams intact and our eyes peeled for the break in the clouds." Our culture editor @sherellbee on how we keep fighting for collective liberation and strong communities, whatever the results of the election.
https://t.co/CfL3dOTCY0

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

Two poems on Tyre Nichols and the spectacle of police-sanctioned Black death by @bardsbesidebars — published in the special Culture issue of @inthesetimesmag edited by @sherellbee
https://t.co/rnbV3FhxC7