Why do Muslims risk their lives for hajj, the required pilgrimage? Taking a critical spiritual eye to racism, capitalism, and Saudi's fear-based bureaucracy, I answer this question drawing on my 2024 hajj, Sunni/Shi'a origins, and theatre expertise.

Plus, I almost die.

#DVPit #A #MV #NF #MENA #POC

THE ANGELS' SUCCUBUS

🌈 sapphic
😇biblically accurate angels x succubus demon
😈unionizing demons
☕learning how to make coffee (fail)
🤨confused angels in the human world
#DVpit #PR #Adult #POC #LGBT

A band of almost friends journeys through foreign lands to track the witch who cursed them. They risk magical trials, discovery, and death to stop her. But breaking their curses would strip them of the magic they've come to crave. And doom them each to a life of loneliness.
#DVPIT #YA #F #POC

HENRIETTA LACKS x MICHONNE (TWD) x MAZE RUNNER

Héla survives by sword, scavenging, and outrunning Grim. She knows nothing of her African ancestry—or why the last city fears her. When she discovers her blood could cure humanity, she becomes the most hunted girl alive. #DVpit #YA #DS #POC

Legendborn X A Thorn Remains
👩🏾‍🦱 Pearl wants one last night with her bffs before she ascends into a magical society
🤴Grayson, a King who should be long, but Pearl woke him up and stole his magic
👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼Together, they must break their magical bond or Pearl will be exiled from her home
#DVPIT #F #YA #POC

Glimmer mining is a thing! But what if it’s impossible to land on one?! One only needs one. What if finding even one feels impossible?! A story about disabled joy and allyship within the community.
#DVpit #PB #Asian #DIS #MH #ND #POC #CI #OWN

A rebel artist caught in a war between her mother’s homeland and her paternal royal family.

An enigmatic mafioso trapped between his duty to his boss and preserving his culture.

They may find freedom in each other if they don’t end up on opposing sides.

#DVpit #YA #F #POC #ND #R #WOC

IMMORTAL X THE GOD AND THE GUMIHO

Wolmi, sacrificial bride

Yeomra, God of the Dead waiting for his first love's rebirth

When the fabric between worlds threatens to tear, she must resolve his first love’s resentment before her death is used to destroy both worlds.

#DVPit #A #R #F #OWN #POC

Comics meet environmental advocacy as 4th graders Peter & his friends working alongside their community to stop a core forest from development. Twp council mtg may be cancelled, but that won’t hinder them from mobilizing their community to speak up on behalf of their forest! #DVpit #CB #asian #POC

This #DVPit I want to talk about elements common to my #A #PoC #F books

👸FMCs who Lead & Rescue
♂️MMCs secure in their cinnamon roll persona
💖Non-toxic love with conflict & yearning
♟️Hopepunk Politics
🌈Queernorm worlds
🧘‍♀️Magic w/ Consequences
⚔️Found fam & f**ed up fam
💚Anxiety rep
💭Moral Dilemmas

Yona of dawn (the anime) meets We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal, but is an Indian inspired fantasy. Sanya is the run away princess who embarks on a journey to save Gharna, but her powers centre around dance and her rare pink hair. #DVpit #POC #dance #anime

A princess struggling to tame the volatile magic within her, allies with a mysterious boy who, like her, is bound to the shadow demons invading her kingdom, to stop them before the power inside her destroys everything she’s trying to save.

#DVpit #YA #R #F #POC

Would you open your veins to keep your ancestors alive? What if you didn't have a choice? Descendants in 2200 must donate blood, but once her mom pressures her anemic sis to donate until she’s comatose, Hanna Kim joins the global resistance against longevity.
#DVpit #A #SF #SFF #OWN #Asian #POC #WOC

ARCANE x SCAVENGERS REIGN

In the aftermath of Earth’s ecocide, a dyslexic mech pilot from a survival of the fittest clan, and a human with a powerful but forbidden mutation, must work against the invisible hands plotting a new world order — despite their warring factions.

#DVpit #YA #SF #F #POC

#NigelFarage , #SarahPouchin , and the #MAGA Reform Movement Are Gifts from the Ancestors:
Why the Ignorance Mask of🤡 #Liberal 😂Racism Is More Dangerous Than Open Hate
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#Nodebate #POC #Earth #Music
#Classical #reality #universe
#plato #Love
#Chopin

Afghan Inspired Woven Kingdom🪡 x For She is Wrath 🔥

After being sacrificed on her wedding night to end the deadly storms in her land by becoming the djinn’s vessel, Rabia returns alive and vengeful to all in her wake, especially the prince who failed to save her
#DVpit #Afghan #YA #F #POC #OWN

Serena Lan, autistic Chinese Canadian teen…
🫤is just trying to survive in a neurotypical world
🖊️gets a talking magic pen (that turns drawings real) on her 14th bday
😮is told by the pen there’s a demon in her family
👿must defeat the demon before her family is destroyed

#DVpit #YA #POC #Asian #ND

High school haters and learning to control her magic are the least of Draya’s worries when she becomes a witch, since she also has to worry about the witch hunters who are out to kill every member of her family’s Black witch society.

#YA #CF #F #BVM #POC #DVpit

Hello #DVPIt 2026 ! My name is Tahni Marie Edwards and I’m an illustrator looking for an agent! I’d love to illustrate for authors looking to portray their stories in a colorful style that plays with shapes and texture! #DVArt #WOC #POC #BVM #LGBT #illustrator

🎨 www.queenofgoldfish.com