#PreDV

To escape the unemployed spouse’s gilded cage, Olivia Zheng needs more crime…to investigate in Bahrain 🔎

When her lies lead her to a drowned body, Olivia fights the US military culture to solve a corruption scheme that could end her life

#DVpit #Mys #Thriller #WF #Asian #WOC

(50/61) “On omma’s death day, / I forgo the forbidden: // peaches, garlic, red spice” —Bo Hee Moon, “Gijesa (기제사): November 10, 1992” (Birthstones in the Province of Mercy) @milkweededitions.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(51/61) “She decided she would keep it— / the anger that was not yet contempt / for you—like a balloon tied to the wrist, / casting its little shadow, little stigma.” —Willie Lin, “Object Lesson” (Conversation Among Stones) @boa-editions.bsky.social #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

Jumping into #querying trenches soon! It's DUNE X Children of 🩸 & 🦴

Unhinged woman in power hunts a seer whose prophecies threaten their hierarchical society.

✨Triple-star system
🙅🏾‍♀️Women’s wrongs
🎭🏛️Political intrigue
📿🔮Contradictory prophecies
🪄rooted in 🇿🇦languages
✊🏾Class struggle
#BVM #A #SFF #WOC

White Old Conservatism Long Time Bad Habits.
Claiming "Heritage"-Culture from "We: Immigrants First".
Europe's Culture and Values are noticeably different..

The Long Shadow of Old Conservatism: A Historical Narrative of American Tension

#US #WOC #Racism

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(49/61) “My name, Camille, means witness at the sacrifice.” —Camille Dungy, “New Address” (America, A Love Story) @weslpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(48/61) “You said / There’s a pack of dogs inside me / threatening to eat its leader who is wounded. / I said Let them.” —Brynn Saito, “First Incarnation” (The Palace of Contemplating Departure) @redhenpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(47/61) “a mouse in / the house, her lover says / it has a very tiny heart, / you need only chase / it until it tires” —Shin Yu Pai, “This Is Not My Story” (Adamantine) White Pine Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(46/61) “Clicks of the keyboard sound like high heels walking / nowhere in particular.” — @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social, “Firefly Ars Poetica” (Night Owl) Ecco #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(45/61) “He has the receipts: / a scar on his breast / that I’ve cleaned like a smudge on a window.” —Hafizah Geter ( @hafizah.bsky.social), “Naming Ceremony” (Un-American) @weslpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(44/61) “Why would this Portuguese sailor come over to me and in his broken English point to the tattoo of a geisha as if I would identify with it. And I did a little.” —Kimiko Hahn, “B-O-A-T” (The Narrow Road to the Interior) W. W. Norton & Company #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(43/61) “You film it, disaffected by the cold and the faces turning like leaves in a blue autumn.” — @aditimachado.bsky.social, “Material Witness” (Material Witness) Nightboat Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(42/61) “You are no one’s enigma / or experiment.” —Amy M. Alvarez, “How to Date a White Boy” (Makeshift Altar)
@kentuckypress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(41/61) “The sea is there, and during / the rainy / season you cannot ask / for more / water or salt.” —Rosamond S. King, “In search of a word” (Rock-Salt-Stone) Nightboat Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

9/10/1942 — b. Christine Darden, American mathematician, aerospace engineer, data analyst, author. #NASA researcher, preeminent expert on supersonic flight+sonic booms. The first Af-Am wmn senior exec at NASA’s Langley Research Ctr #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #MathSky #SciSky #HistSci #woc

(40/61) “driven across the country / with half-filled suitcases in a beat-up sedan— / warming my hands in a blurry Denny’s, / my mother giving me medicine with ice cream” — @jennyqi.bsky.social, “Little Fires” (Focal Point) Steel Toe Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

9/9/1914 — b. Marjorie Lee Browne, American mathematician, educator. Pioneer African American woman; one of the first two U.S. Af-Am women to receive a doctoral degree in #mathematics (1949). Dept chair, North Carolina Central Univ (1951-70) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #EduSky #edu #woc

(39/61) “I paid off the debt with a stone that I knew to be worthless.” —Isabelle Baafi, “One side of a conversation with the bailiff at my door” (Chaotic Good) @weslpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(38/61) “whose smile never swam inside / an ultrasound hum the throat swallowed / before it became breath” —Jasminne Mendez, “Inheritance” (City Without Altar) @noemipress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

(37/61) “to swallow / bruise / that begins / in dark blue” — @omotarajames.bsky.social, “Exhibition of the Queered Woman” (Song of My Softening) Alice James Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets