Happy Belated Pub day to @gaylesbianreview books. I'm delighted to be out and proud with my essay Queer Rain: Reflections on James Baldwin's "Untitled". Curated and edited by Allison Armijo. Organized as: Speaking🌟 Moving💫 Pivoting🏳️‍⚧️ Wanting❤️ Protecting💫 Celebrating🎊 Congratulations to my fellow contributors for saying and sharing what needed to be said in this moment. A huge shout out to scholar, writer, and friend @meccajamilah for her essay On Writing Black Queer Fiction. #PersonalEssay #QueerWriters #QueerWriter

Last night @tamm.haygoodrbc brought back this amazing auction paddle from @gordonparksfoundation gala to add to my IRL ephemera collection. #blackephemera #TheEphemeraCollector #blackartauction #gordonparksfoundationgala No surprise I wrote about a fictional character who is a curator and Director of African American ephemera in the future. I collect to remember re-memory.

Flashback from the wayback machine. Glitter & feathers in the Mission back in the day when I wanted to be Samba King. I'd be lying if I said I still got it like that… Happy 20th anniversary @sambaxedance! @raffafm 👏🔥🎉 Congrats to all still out there dancing.

With my head in the stars & my feet tapping the bottom of the ocean floor, I am so pleased to share THE EPHEMERA COLLECTOR has been named alongside other amazing books shortlisted for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. As other nominees have mentioned, gratitude to @saroyanfoundation and @stanfordulibraries for administering the vision of William Saroyan. Set in the future at the @thehuntingtonlibrary, in real life Stanford University Libraries and The Huntington collaborate, have shared interests, as well as shared literary archives. Additionally, William Saroyan was also a playwright and visual artist. This book itself is a collection of ideas, Black history, poems, collage art, footnoted research, and blackouts. A love letter to Black Los Angeles, my own family, and Octavia E. Butler. On behalf of my protagonist, Xandria an archivist – this news is special!🔥

It is such a joy to see an artist fly from @untitledartfairs to an upcoming solo show @fridmangallery this week. Tammy and I are enthralled by Laurena’s work exploring Black geographies, Maroon histor(ies) and lush landscapes in our 🏖️house. A must see! #BlackArtMatters #BlackWomenArtist #EmergingArtists #

Tammy and I were honored and humbled to share our 🏡 in the midst of literal chaos outside with @dindgamccannon, @thelexmarie, @ydanialilopez to discuss three very different and yet connected artistic practices. Mothers and daughters and aunties and cousins…fam…community will get us to the other side. Always has. Always will. #blackwomenartists #artsalon #artcollector

In my debut novel The Ephemera Collector, a tenacious curator is fighting to save her beloved #library, a revolutionary archive, and maybe the future itself after being implicated in a kidnapping at @thehuntingtonlibrary . In celebration of the @audiobooks 1-year anniversary @highbridgeaudio is offering a 70% anniversary promotion through May 5, 2026. https://www.audiobooks.com/promotions/promotedBook/881175/ephemera-collector-a-novel?refId=249105 Dive into the deep with Xandria, health bots and Diwata! #AudioBookRecommendation #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SpeculativeFiction #AudioBook #SciFiBooks #SupportBlackAuthors #QueerBoostagram #BlackBookstagram

The trailer for The Ephemera Collector is here. 🎬📚 This book began as a question: What happens when memory itself is under threat? When archives become battlegrounds? When the past, present, and future collide inside one curator’s mind? Set between smoke-hazed 2035 Los Angeles and a distant future reckoning, The Ephemera Collector follows Xandria Brown as she fights to protect a radical archive while navigating AI health systems, climate crisis, and the fragile preservation of Black history. 🤖🌍📜 The trailer offers a glimpse into that layered world, archives, artifacts, fragments of memory, and futures still unfolding. If the story speaks to you, you can purchase signed copies at @sistahscifi at www.sistahscifi.com and support an indie bookstore devoted to Black speculative fiction. 🖤 #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #SpeculativeFiction #BlackFutures #BookTrailer #SupportIndieBookstores #SistahScifi