Not only are pre orders really important for the success of any publication, even for authors with flawless resumes like @fredtjoseph , but it’s also the nicest surprise when they turn up in your mailbox. And for any friends who see this post and are on the receiving end of this beautiful book of poetry as a gift? I’m still gonna need you to at least pretend to be surprised. ☺️#wealivebeloved
LINK IN BIO FOR TIX - Don’t miss out!!!!
Calling all my Chicago people!
Hope you’ll check out @deconstructingkaren , a documentary of which I am an Executive Producer, in Chicago on May 14th.
Watch this extraordinary film and hear from the subjects of it: @sairarao and @rljack12 , along with @portia.noir and @dockerypw .
Tickets in my bio. Don’t miss this!
LINK IN BIO FOR TIX - Don’t miss out!!!!
Calling all my Chicago people!
Hope you’ll check out @deconstructingkaren , a documentary of which I am an Executive Producer, in Chicago on May 14th.
Watch this extraordinary film and hear from the subjects of it: @sairarao and @rljack12 , along with @portia.noir and @dockerypw .
Tickets in my bio. Don’t miss this!
@abitoflightfilm is available NOW in select theaters, VOD and the usual places you find your digital content.
Thank you @quiverdistribution for believing in this oh so tiny passion project of ours and bringing it to audiences. And a rare glam night/date night made possible by some super talented folks and some pretty clothes. 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Make-up @makeupbylucas
Hair @dolohair
Dress @lovenookie
Cane @fashionablecanes
#transdayofvisibility🏳️⚧️ Posted @withregram • @rowanjetteknox It’s #transdayofvisibility AND my fifth month on #HRT! I continue to feel incredible throughout all the changes in my body and the calmness that has swept over my mind since my very first dose of testosterone.
Being visible is not always easy—especially right now. The world is awash in misinformation about trans people, and those of us who are public in our transness tend to get a lot of negativity thrown our way.
But it’s also an important time because of what’s happening. So, those of us who can be out there continue to do so for those who cannot for their own safety. And yes, for some it is really unsafe. We need to change that.
If you are not able to be visible or to be out as trans at all, you are still valid. You are still valued. And I see you.
Happy #tdov to all my siblings.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
🩷🩵🤍
HUGE CONGRATS to @fredtjoseph on yet ANOTHER NUMBER ONE #BESTSELLER
I can’t remember who said it/where I read it but racism is white history NOT Black History. Not that it isn’t important to call out harm inflicted on Black folks ALL the time. But as this #Blackhistorymonth comes to a close I just wanted to take a moment to celebrate the brilliance and success of the one and only @fredtjoseph
And if you haven’t already BUY FRED’s BOOK! The link is still in my BIO
Posted @withregram • @fredtjoseph Thank you to those who continue to invest in my writing. Sales are not everything, but for a Black author, they are a critical part of the journey. 🖤✊🏾
💔 I really can’t word it any better than Stevo did. 💔
Posted @withregram • @stephenmoyer On Friday our beautiful Banjo passed over to the other side. Wherever that is, whatever that is, it was mercifully gentle and he was surrounded by all of his loved people & of course, Dave.
Over the past few weeks he has been slowly leaving us; we would walk a few steps and then he would lay down.
Like in this pic from a walk last week.
I would lift him, he would walk a few steps, then slowly drop to the floor & try to sleep again.
It’s hard to describe the odd ball that Banjo was.
He asked for nothing. From the outset. He always had his back turned to the wild world. He would seek out the nooks and crannies of a room and hide under tables and desks. He was rescued from a Puppy Mill back in 2009. I always wondered what had happened to him back then. When I saw him that first time at the adoption drive, all the other dogs were yapping and jumping up demanding to be adopted, but Banj was in the corner in a little heap with his body turned away and asleep. Tiny little rag doll.
When I went over to look him in the eye he barely looked up at me - we were told he was part Louisiana Catahoula leopard dog. (Look it up - its’a thing) he was like a Dingo from the front with a greyhounds back legs and a leopards spots.
One boss eye which meant you never quite knew if he was quite looking at you.
There would be differences of opinion about the origin of his name, me romanticizing that we called him Banjo because he kinda looked like the genius Banjo player in Deliverance but the true story being that Anna loved the song ‘Old Susanna’ which has the lyric
‘Oh, I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
I’m going to Louisiana
My true love for to see’
It felt perfect somehow that he was our true love and he had found us. Our Louisiana lad.
He was such a good good boy.
So loved. So odd. And will be so so missed.
Thanks so much to the extremely kind technicians & doctor at Bond Vet Manhattan. They took our whole family, & FaceTime student & Dave.
💜
@daveandbanj
