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The Signal, Callaloo Volume 42, Number 4, winter 2024

Queer Rain: Reflections on James Baldwin’s Untitled The Gay & Lesbian Review

Diss-placed: Wildfires and the Loss of a Family Home Nerd Daily

The Offing: Cross Genre Back of The Envelope

Electric Literature personal essay from Both/And series

@stacyseajackson

@stayseajackson
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

@stayseajackson

Mixed-handed person born from left-handed parents. Literary Futurologist. Poet. Playwright. Artist. Collector. The Ephemera Collector @liverightbooks.
  • 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
  • Honored to join the OneHaas Podcast to share my journey as an African American trans artist-activist and Haas alum. 🌈✨

From serving on community boards and the SF Transgender Civil Rights Implementation Task Force to leading nonprofit arts orgs, I’ve learned that private decisions, like transitioning, can have public consequences. It’s about authenticity, responsibility, and the work we do for our communities. 💼🎨✊🏾

Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZj59rpzRwI 🎧

You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, order from @sistahscifi or @bookshop_org!

#TransVoices #LGBTQIA #ArtistActivist #HaasAlumni #EquityAndJustice #Library
  • Signed paperback copies of The Ephemera Collector are available at Sistah Scifi. 🚀📚

Teleporting from the @OctaviaEButler Landing on Mars (thank you, @NASA) to smoke-hazed 2035 Los Angeles, The Ephemera Collector is a speculative, experimental novel that moves through archives, AI, climate crisis, and Black memory with both feet in the past and eyes on the future. 🌍✨

I’m thrilled that signed paperbacks, published by @LiverightBooks are available through @SistahScifi. 

Supporting an indie bookstore devoted to Black speculative fiction while getting a signed copy? That’s alignment. Can we all say ashe!?

If you’ve been meaning to step into Xandria’s world, @TheHuntingtonLibrary archives, the Diwata Collection, the long shadow of history, this is your moment.

Secure your signed paperback from Sistah Scifi or check it out from your #locallibrary, and let’s keep building futures that remember where they came from. 🖤

#TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #SpeculativeFiction #SignedBooks #SupportIndieBookstores #OctaviaEButler #SistahScifi #Library #Libraries
  • Music is memory. Music is archive. 🎶✨

I made an official Spotify playlist for The Ephemera Collector, the songs that live in Xandria’s world, the streets, the archives, and the future. From jazz to Afrofuturist soundscapes, it’s the soundtrack to a story about memory, survival, and Black futures. 🌊📚

The playlist includes music from artists like @sonsofkemet, @robertglasper, @nicholasbritell, @cinematic_orchestra, and @javiersantiagomusic, sonic architects who understand atmosphere, tension, lineage, and lift.🔥

🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6t9mmCIv7awys3AoDj8G7H?si=8fb51b997c8744f0&nd=1&dlsi=f71c2c322d2042f7

If you’re curious, you can preorder The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, local bookstore, or via @bookshop_org.

Let’s keep the archives alive. 🖤

#TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #SpotifyPlaylist #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
  • “By any means necessary. Freedom, justice, equality.”

“You good?” he asked, eyes deep brown and sparkling. She knew it. At first sight, their future was bright.
- From The Ephemera Collector by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

Grateful to @literaryhub for sharing this excerpt from The Ephemera Collector. The archive isn’t only institutions and artifacts, it’s street corners, fashion choices, political doubt, and the exact moment two lives tilt toward each other.

Read the full excerpt: https://lithub.com/the-ephemera-collector/

You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore - signed copies available from @SistahScifi, or grab a copy via @bookshop_org. 🖤📚

#TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #LiteraryHub #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
  • 💫 I’m grateful for this thoughtful review of The Ephemera Collector in @locusmagazine by @gabino_iglesias.

To have the novel recognized as part of the ongoing conversation around Afrofuturism and placed in lineage with writers who’ve shaped how we imagine Black futures means a great deal to me. 

The review speaks to the dual architecture of the book: the intimate fragility of memory and health, alongside the sweep of history, archive, and speculative possibility.
Xandria’s fight to preserve collective memory in 2035 Los Angeles is deeply personal to me. Black history is not abstract. It is lived, held, and protected, sometimes under lockdown.

Thank you to Locus for engaging the work so seriously and generously.

📕 If you’re curious, you can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore - signed copies available from @SistahScifi, or grab a copy via @bookshop_org. 

Independent bookstores and libraries keep stories like this alive. Let’s make sure they thrive.

#TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #LocusMagazine #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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Honored to join the OneHaas Podcast to share my journey as an African American trans artist-activist and Haas alum. 🌈✨ From serving on community boards and the SF Transgender Civil Rights Implementation Task Force to leading nonprofit arts orgs, I’ve learned that private decisions, like transitioning, can have public consequences. It’s about authenticity, responsibility, and the work we do for our communities. 💼🎨✊🏾 Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZj59rpzRwI 🎧 You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, order from @sistahscifi or @bookshop_org! #TransVoices #LGBTQIA #ArtistActivist #HaasAlumni #EquityAndJustice #Library
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Signed paperback copies of The Ephemera Collector are available at Sistah Scifi. 🚀📚

Teleporting from the @OctaviaEButler Landing on Mars (thank you, @NASA) to smoke-hazed 2035 Los Angeles, The Ephemera Collector is a speculative, experimental novel that moves through archives, AI, climate crisis, and Black memory with both feet in the past and eyes on the future. 🌍✨

I’m thrilled that signed paperbacks, published by @LiverightBooks are available through @SistahScifi. 

Supporting an indie bookstore devoted to Black speculative fiction while getting a signed copy? That’s alignment. Can we all say ashe!?

If you’ve been meaning to step into Xandria’s world, @TheHuntingtonLibrary archives, the Diwata Collection, the long shadow of history, this is your moment.

Secure your signed paperback from Sistah Scifi or check it out from your #locallibrary, and let’s keep building futures that remember where they came from. 🖤

#TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #SpeculativeFiction #SignedBooks #SupportIndieBookstores #OctaviaEButler #SistahScifi #Library #Libraries
Signed paperback copies of The Ephemera Collector are available at Sistah Scifi. 🚀📚 Teleporting from the @OctaviaEButler Landing on Mars (thank you, @NASA) to smoke-hazed 2035 Los Angeles, The Ephemera Collector is a speculative, experimental novel that moves through archives, AI, climate crisis, and Black memory with both feet in the past and eyes on the future. 🌍✨ I’m thrilled that signed paperbacks, published by @LiverightBooks are available through @SistahScifi. Supporting an indie bookstore devoted to Black speculative fiction while getting a signed copy? That’s alignment. Can we all say ashe!? If you’ve been meaning to step into Xandria’s world, @TheHuntingtonLibrary archives, the Diwata Collection, the long shadow of history, this is your moment. Secure your signed paperback from Sistah Scifi or check it out from your #locallibrary, and let’s keep building futures that remember where they came from. 🖤 #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #SpeculativeFiction #SignedBooks #SupportIndieBookstores #OctaviaEButler #SistahScifi #Library #Libraries
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Music is memory. Music is archive. 🎶✨

I made an official Spotify playlist for The Ephemera Collector, the songs that live in Xandria’s world, the streets, the archives, and the future. From jazz to Afrofuturist soundscapes, it’s the soundtrack to a story about memory, survival, and Black futures. 🌊📚

The playlist includes music from artists like @sonsofkemet, @robertglasper, @nicholasbritell, @cinematic_orchestra, and @javiersantiagomusic, sonic architects who understand atmosphere, tension, lineage, and lift.🔥

🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6t9mmCIv7awys3AoDj8G7H?si=8fb51b997c8744f0&nd=1&dlsi=f71c2c322d2042f7

If you’re curious, you can preorder The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, local bookstore, or via @bookshop_org.

Let’s keep the archives alive. 🖤

#TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #SpotifyPlaylist #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
Music is memory. Music is archive. 🎶✨ I made an official Spotify playlist for The Ephemera Collector, the songs that live in Xandria’s world, the streets, the archives, and the future. From jazz to Afrofuturist soundscapes, it’s the soundtrack to a story about memory, survival, and Black futures. 🌊📚 The playlist includes music from artists like @sonsofkemet, @robertglasper, @nicholasbritell, @cinematic_orchestra, and @javiersantiagomusic, sonic architects who understand atmosphere, tension, lineage, and lift.🔥 🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6t9mmCIv7awys3AoDj8G7H?si=8fb51b997c8744f0&nd=1&dlsi=f71c2c322d2042f7 If you’re curious, you can preorder The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, local bookstore, or via @bookshop_org. Let’s keep the archives alive. 🖤 #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #SpotifyPlaylist #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
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“By any means necessary. Freedom, justice, equality.”

“You good?” he asked, eyes deep brown and sparkling. She knew it. At first sight, their future was bright.
- From The Ephemera Collector by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

Grateful to @literaryhub for sharing this excerpt from The Ephemera Collector. The archive isn’t only institutions and artifacts, it’s street corners, fashion choices, political doubt, and the exact moment two lives tilt toward each other.

Read the full excerpt: https://lithub.com/the-ephemera-collector/

You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore - signed copies available from @SistahScifi, or grab a copy via @bookshop_org. 🖤📚

#TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #LiteraryHub #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
“By any means necessary. Freedom, justice, equality.” “You good?” he asked, eyes deep brown and sparkling. She knew it. At first sight, their future was bright. – From The Ephemera Collector by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson Grateful to @literaryhub for sharing this excerpt from The Ephemera Collector. The archive isn’t only institutions and artifacts, it’s street corners, fashion choices, political doubt, and the exact moment two lives tilt toward each other. Read the full excerpt: https://lithub.com/the-ephemera-collector/ You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore – signed copies available from @SistahScifi, or grab a copy via @bookshop_org. 🖤📚 #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #LiteraryHub #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
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💫 I’m grateful for this thoughtful review of The Ephemera Collector in @locusmagazine by @gabino_iglesias.

To have the novel recognized as part of the ongoing conversation around Afrofuturism and placed in lineage with writers who’ve shaped how we imagine Black futures means a great deal to me. 

The review speaks to the dual architecture of the book: the intimate fragility of memory and health, alongside the sweep of history, archive, and speculative possibility.
Xandria’s fight to preserve collective memory in 2035 Los Angeles is deeply personal to me. Black history is not abstract. It is lived, held, and protected, sometimes under lockdown.

Thank you to Locus for engaging the work so seriously and generously.

📕 If you’re curious, you can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore - signed copies available from @SistahScifi, or grab a copy via @bookshop_org. 

Independent bookstores and libraries keep stories like this alive. Let’s make sure they thrive.

#TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #LocusMagazine #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
💫 I’m grateful for this thoughtful review of The Ephemera Collector in @locusmagazine by @gabino_iglesias. To have the novel recognized as part of the ongoing conversation around Afrofuturism and placed in lineage with writers who’ve shaped how we imagine Black futures means a great deal to me. The review speaks to the dual architecture of the book: the intimate fragility of memory and health, alongside the sweep of history, archive, and speculative possibility. Xandria’s fight to preserve collective memory in 2035 Los Angeles is deeply personal to me. Black history is not abstract. It is lived, held, and protected, sometimes under lockdown. Thank you to Locus for engaging the work so seriously and generously. 📕 If you’re curious, you can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore – signed copies available from @SistahScifi, or grab a copy via @bookshop_org. Independent bookstores and libraries keep stories like this alive. Let’s make sure they thrive. #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #LocusMagazine #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove
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