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it’s time to get tickets for the LITTLE ROT book launch!!!! monday, 6/17 at @bellhouseny 📌🗓️🎟️ price includes a copy of the book and i’ll be in conversation with the brilliant @nk_adjei 🙌🏾

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Holy shit. I just got a huge ER bill knocked down by SEVENTY PERCENT because I listened to a Tumblr post that said to call and tell them you can't pay that. I know we all know this but truly, America is a SCAM.

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@yungdeadthing

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I threw in ‘income has been affected by COVID19’ for good measure and they were like we can put you on a payment plan or give you a discount. I asked how much the discount was, they said 70% and my jaw legit dropped. They didn’t ask me for anything else. That was literally it.

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@yungdeadthing

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They shot him through the neck just hours after this tweet, killing him. We are so sorry, Oke 💔

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@O_Okee

4 years

Nigeria will not end me

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

“When these things happen, it’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. There are people who are not cool with you existing in the world.” — Laverne Cox 💞🥺

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@yungdeadthing

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i am not even exaggerating when i say i’ve sent this clip to friends and my therapist because it helped me get out of an existential spiral i was in 😭

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@weltonsmac

3 months

omg the story of how colman domingo met his husband is just so incredible and precious ♥️

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@yungdeadthing

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your celebrities are designed to distract you into complacency and it's working.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Hi! Here is a random reminder that I do not have a gender. Thanks!

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

WHILE YOU’RE HERE! I write books! They’re pretty awesome and have won awards! My next novel THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI comes out August 4th and you can pre-order it now! Thank you!

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

I woke up this morning to find out that I’m on the cover of @TIME magazine! I was profiled by @TrevellAnderson as one of the 2021 Next Generation Leaders and photographed by @elliottjbrownjr to create this absolutely epic moment 🙌🏾📸✨ #DearSenthuran

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Last year, I wrote a romance novel. This year, it sold in a major deal at auction to @AtriaBooks , and that’s how my romance debut YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY will be published next year in 2022!!! 🙌🏾✨🎉 #FoolOfDeath

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

A reminder that several of your favorite cishet African women writers share similar opinions on trans people as She Who Must Not Be Named 🙃

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

I am unbelievably thrilled to share that my second YA novel, BITTER, is forthcoming from @KnopfBFYR on 2.15.2022 🙌🏾💥🎉 Preorder link below 🔗🌸👇🏾

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Popping back in to kick a hornet’s nest 🙃 My novels will not be submitted for the Women’s Prize. Their origin story is that men were excluding them w/the Booker, so when FRESHWATER was longlisted, I hoped it was a sign that they gave thought to who *they* were excluding.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

The safest place in the world is really inside a book.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

A note on Freshwater—it is *not* a book about nonbinary/trans identity through an Igbo lens, ffs. It is not about gender whatsoever and framing it as that is trying to force it over to a human/Western center. It is about embodiment as an ogbanje.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Laverne Cox went on IG Live to talk about a transphobic attack she and a friend just experienced 😔 So much of what she had to say broke my heart because it’s simply...true. “It’s not safe in the world [...] it’s not safe if you’re a trans person.” 💔

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Look, there are so many times I’ve woken up from nightmares or had to pull myself out of flashbacks by saying the same exact thing of “I’m safe, I’m in my home now, everything’s okay.” And there’s still so much grief because so many of us *can’t* say that.

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@yungdeadthing

4 months

my eighth (8!) book LITTLE ROT now has the chaotic cover it deserves! 🙌🏾✨ coming june 18 from @riverheadbooks , LITTLE ROT is an absolutely unhinged story set in the underbelly of a nigerian city 🇳🇬💥 can’t wait for you all to read it 🥰 preorder here:

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

I write full-time and buying my books helps me pay my medical bills as I’m uninsured and chronically ill, so while you’re scrolling, please check out my work!

Home - Akwaeke Emezi

Website for the artist and deity AKWAEKE

www.akwaeke.com

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI is hanging out on a billboard in Times Square. As one does.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

My debut novel FRESHWATER is currently in development as a TV series at @FXNetworks with the execs who brought you @AtlantaFX and I'm executive producing it with Tamara P. Carter ( @TheLeftoversHBO ) so you should probably catch up and read the book! 🙌🏾🥰🌊

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

some news 🥰

Copper Canyon Press

@CopperCanyonPrs

3 years

Exciting news: we are delighted to welcome AKWAEKE EMEZI ( @azemezi ) to Copper Canyon Press! We look forward to publishing their debut book of poetry in 2022.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

I’m sorry, WHAT?!?! 😭💞😭💞😭💞

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@cadillacademic

4 years

best thing about visiting bell hooks 💅🏿is the book recommendations. I saw @azemezi 's PET on her table and asked if I could borrow it. She said I could have it because she was "so enamored she bought 15." shout out to black women riding for other black writers. we love to see it

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@yungdeadthing

8 months

new favorite eye look 🩵🩵🩵

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Elle: *avoids using any pronouns for me whatsoever because God forbid they acknowledge a nonconforming gender* My mentions: 'Queens! Sistahs! Women! Ladies!' Me: 🙃🖕🏾

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

So many people are dying, not just directly from this virus. I wonder when the conversations about suicides this year will happen.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

This is not the first time CNA has dismissed people's condemnation of transphobia as 'noise'—when you people ignored her transphobia to platform her in SA a few years back, she said the same thing because she gives no fucks about trans people or harming us.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

When she first made her transphobia public, I speak for those of us who genuinely loved and looked up to her, that shit broke our hearts. Me, I had graduated from her workshop + published a whole piece about it, I actually developed my nonfiction voice there.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

This was her. Two days after Freshwater debuted, she asked that her name be removed from my bio everywhere because of my tweets online. Most were about her transphobia.

AKWAEKE

@yungdeadthing

4 years

The year FW debuted, I lost the support of a prominent writer because of my tweets about them. I'm okay with that because they were being transphobic. Like, by all means, let us not align. Take your ring away. None of this is by force.

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@yungdeadthing

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in enormous news, i wrote the foreword for the new collector’s edition of octavia butler’s PARABLE OF THE TALENTS 🙌🏾❤️‍🔥 📚✨ out 12/9 from @hachettebooks , order here:

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

I was also anxious as hell because speaking against her publicly, even just by retweeting content, was a THING. But there was no other option, we have to stand by trans women, period.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Here’s pictures of Güs in a patch of sunlight to cleanse the timeline. In this house, we stan, support, and pay Black trans women ✊🏾✨💞

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

And here we go.

PinkNews

@PinkNews

3 years

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie thinks JK Rowling's anti-trans essay was 'a perfectly reasonable piece'

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

This thread doesn't really have a point, other than my God, it's been years and it still hurts that she's transphobic. We were rooting so hard for her. So many people gently tried to educate her. So much grace was extended, and she went to loudly align with You-Know-Who.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

PS: I run a Patreon where 100% of the income goes directly to Black trans people in need. I post only a few times a month but you get insider gist, writing tips, early cover reveals, etc. for as little as $1 a month 🥰 Please share + retweet! 🙏🏾🌿

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Also, yes, this means I have 3 books coming out in 2022, all in separate genres. That’s why I’m in editing hell this year. BITTER (YA, 2.15.2022) CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING (Poetry, Spring 2022) YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY (Romance, Summer 2022)

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Forget about me—I don’t want this prize—but anyone who uses this kind of language does not fuck with trans women either, so when they say it’s for women, they mean cis women. And yes, this does mean that them longlisting FW was transphobic.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

My official nonfiction debut, DEAR SENTHURAN: A BLACK SPIRIT MEMOIR, is coming out on June 8 & is available for preorder now! Author photo by @KateBomz & cover art by ruby onyinyechi amanze 🙌🏾✨ Please preorder or request from your library! #DearSenthuran

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

She edited and wrote an introduction to my work and I was over the moon. I couldn't wait for her to read Freshwater. When she said those things and then doubled down and then mocked those of us who called her out (she called the response "trans-noise"), I was gutted.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Publication day lewks! ✨🌸🎶 Mehn, I can’t believe #TheDeathOfVivekOji is finally out—I wrote it back in 2016 + now it can reach its readers, completing the circle 🥰🙌🏾🥂 Please request it from your local library or click the link below to buy it 🙏🏾📚🔥

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

As for CNA and that white woman, at this point, anyone who supports them knowing their views is also openly supporting transphobia. There is no justifying it. Kill your idols.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Okay, all done! Updated my profile picture so new followers can gaze into my eyes and perhaps feel moved to check out a book or two 🥰 Take care of the folks around you, please, and stay safe out there. We all we got. ✊🏾💞⚡️

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

To now know that people will happily throw trans people under the bus rather than hold her accountable for her views? To be reminded that for so many people, CNA is untouchable and trans people are not worth deplatforming her? 💔

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@yungdeadthing

4 months

ahhhh it’s been a minute since i did one of these 🥰

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

I do want to say that this is also an intracommunity thing. CNA means something very specific to young Nigerian writers, especially those who were in her workshop. It is layered and heavy on the heart because the way we LOVED her???

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

As a kid, if you told me that my favorite author would turn out to be a violent bigot and that my own books would be getting recommended as an alternative to hers, I would’ve laughed in your face. But here we are, Dark Lady and all. Much disappoint.

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@yungdeadthing

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I haven’t even been on Twitter but the ripples of the transphobic violence spearheaded by You-Know-Who are still being felt. The force of her hatred for people who are minding their business and trying not to get murdered is really something, but we can be loud too.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

And if there's one thing I will never forget from when I disclosed I wasn't a woman in 2018, it's the realization that many Black cis women are only in solidarity with you if they think you're one of them.

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@yungdeadthing

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i have so many stories in me i literally do not think a lifetime will be enough to get them all out 😩 i dream stories, i wake up in them, i'm a story being haunted by a legion of other stories 😭

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

It’s fine for me not to be eligible because I’m not a woman! But you not about to be out here on some ‘sex as defined by law’ like that’s not a weapon used against trans women.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

I just picked up my monthly inhaler prescription for over $200, and the pharmacist couldn’t find a single discount coupon to help. She shook her head as she checked me out and said, “This don’t make no sense to breathe.” Big facts.

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@yungdeadthing

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If anything, take heart and know that your chi is very much awake, no matter who you're facing down or their perceived power. I am fucking honored to be writing books for Black queer and trans people. We are impossible things cracking the world open.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Sigh. Y’all. “Legally defined as a woman” is transphobic in ✨multiple✨ directions. An institution adhering to transphobic law, is still, unfortunately, transphobic.

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@yungdeadthing

3 months

basically that stories are real, like this impossible romantic one ➡️ remembering that i am an impossible thing who is impossibly alive doing impossible things through God, who can make any story come true ➡️ we can hope for what feels impossible, because it isn’t!

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

My debut YA novel PET was a finalist for the 2019 @NationalBook Award for Young People's Literature! A girl goes hunting for monsters with a magical creature who emerged from one of her mom's paintings. Imagine it—her world has healthcare for all 🤯✨

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

#TheDeathOfVivekOji turns one year old today! 🍰🍬🎉 Happy book birthday to my instant NYT bestseller, now translated into thirteen languages 💐 Here’s to Vivek and Osita, to death and grief and the lives beyond🥂🍾

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

First, I have an essay up on @parisreview about disability and embodiment, do read + share! Second, and with a drumroll, my nonfiction debut will be published next year by @RiverheadBooks ! It’s a memoir titled DEAR SENTHURAN, coming Summer 2021 💥🌿🥵

My Spirit Burns Through This Body

This disability is invisible in me, pain clenched in my molars like a tight secret.

www.theparisreview.org

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Honestly in love with this video of myself 🙌🏾💞 New Orleans is so good to my skin and I am extravagantly alive, eating the world. #theopulentogbanje

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@yungdeadthing

10 months

consider that women pairing up with men….actually know these men…and…privately share values…that’s why they stay together…

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

It’s publication day for #TheDeathOfVivekOji ! 🤯🙌🏾🥂 I’m still in bed, bonnet and all, awake only because Güs tried to break into my bedroom an hour ago, but it’s dawning on me that I have now officially published three books in three years. Holy shit.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

“I know nothing will happen to [CNA] because this world and the publishing industry value her more than the lives or wellbeing of trans people, which is something she knows as well.” 🌸

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

A memoir title: YOU PEOPLE WILL NOT KILL ME

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

If you think pushing back against transphobia from powerful people and institutions is a ploy for social media attention, your time would be better spent just admitting that you hate trans people and going.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

I was okay with it because tbh, I agreed that my connection to her shouldn't be used to sell my work. We do not stand for the same things. I didn't and still don't want her name on my books.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Anyway, just stating all this because the virulent transphobia in the UK literary world is annoying me. I did make an awesome post on IG the other day telling transphobes to die mad and honestly? Constant mood. 13/10 would recommend. Bye! 😘✌🏾

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@yungdeadthing

10 months

it’s called ✨range✨ sksksks

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@tlalane

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I can’t believe these two books were written but the same person. The first one I struggled to finish, second, I can’t put down.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

There are so many communities I used to be a part of and got pushed out of simply for existing truthfully as myself, for seeing and pointing at true things, where staying would have meant violence. The costs, the losses, and a world that consistently supports those who harm us.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

The ogbanje turns 34 and makes a thirst trap ✨🎂🎊 #theopulentogbanje ☄️

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Injecting some wholesome content into your timeline—today I made carrot soup with carrots from my garden! And some peanut butter. It was amazing and I’m gonna do it again with the purple carrots soon.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Bruh. My third book is really coming out in three weeks.

Riverhead Books

@riverheadbooks

4 years

THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI explores what it means for a family to lose a child they never really knew. Read more about @azemezi 's latest stunning novel here:

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@yungdeadthing

9 months

*this* is the view i needed to see! #CardiB

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

If your style guide doesn't respect people's pronouns, then your style guide is <insert drumroll here> transphobic! Gasp. Stop being so precious about your shit and catch up to the actual world you're publishing in.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

At this point, I’m blocking any and everyone who misgenders me. Most of them actually follow me and tag me in it, which I’ll assume means you’re just being deliberately malicious 🙃

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

If anyone needs to hear this—it's okay to be okay right now, especially if you've been fighting for years to stay alive. You don't have to poke holes in your recovery because you feel you should be suffering more out of solidarity. Stay okay to help those who aren't.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

I mean, to be fair, we are talking about a woman who aligns with war criminals, so I suppose it all tracks. But also, even her transphobia is so much bigger than her. There's that reminder that Black cis women will continue to uplift her at the expense of trans people.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

A few people have suggested that I write a home/garden book, which I’m interested in, but it also seems so…vast?? I’m thinking about it, though, and wanted to know—what would y’all be interested in reading about? 🙏🏾🌿📚 #ShinyTheGodhouse

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Which reminds me, PET was nominated for a Carnegie Medal!!! 🥰🙌🏾🎉 Here’s to abolition, Black trans girls being cherished, and a better world 🌍🏳️‍🌈

The Yoto Carnegies

@CarnegieMedals

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We are delighted to announce the nominations for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals! Congratulations to all the incredible authors and illustrators in the running for #CKG21 ! View the full lists here:

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@yungdeadthing

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They’d already been in touch with the Women’s Prize, who had informed them: “The information we would require from you regards Akwaeke Emezi's sex as defined by law.” Ew.

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@yungdeadthing

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did my first live show yesterday—prepare to be SICK of me 🐍🔥

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

We are truly all we got. I'm very proud of debut me for standing by my beliefs, because the anxiety of knowing you've pissed off CNA right in your publication week?? BRUH. You're there calculating if the loss of her support will tank your career. Over common tweets. LMFAO.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Pronunciation guide for DEAR SENTHURAN 🔊✨ Since my mum’s side of the family is Tamil, having a Tamil name on this book feels pretty special 🥰 For booksellers, librarians, editors, readers, everyone—here’s how to say it. Replay as many times as necessary 🙏🏾💞 #DearSenthuran

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

I am so proud to share that I’ll be launching DEAR SENTHURAN at the @SchomburgCenter with the one and only ✨Saidiya Hartman✨💥🔥 Click the link below to join us on June 8 🗓 because this is going to be a MOMENT and you know it 🙌🏾💥🐐 #DearSenthuran

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@yungdeadthing

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scrim.

aspiring VA

@temilolusogebi

3 months

Christians, please don’t read The Death of Vivek Oji. Please don’t

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

I'm 32,000 words into the first romance novel, aka book number six , merrily on brand for being disrespectful across genres. This is going to be fun.

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

I have 5 active book projects in 5 different genres going on at the same time and I kind of love it. Everything else fades out by necessity. #DearSenthuran is in rollout mode, two books are in edits at the same time, another is about to enter edits, and I’m writing a new book.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Gave myself a quarantine cut 🥰🙌🏾✨

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Are you not fucking ashamed?

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

On another note, if you’re going to chat about me and be transphobic, you’ve already disqualified literally everything you had to say. It’s no longer valid because it’s underpinned by bigotry. Sorry, I don’t make the rules 🙃

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@yungdeadthing

3 months

😭😭😭 just finished edits for book nine pls clap for me 😭

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@yungdeadthing

3 years

Featuring the impeccable art of ruby onyinyechi amanze, here is the cover for my upcoming memoir, DEAR SENTHURAN! It comes out during my birthday week on June 8 (we love a Gemini) and is available for preorder NOW! You already know what to do ✊🏾✨

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@yungdeadthing

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i’m featured in an eighteen page spread in issue 32 of apartmento magazine 🤌🏾❤️‍🔥 interview by jina khayyar, photography by heather sten 💕 get into the ✨taste✨

A to Z with deity Akwaeke Emezi — Apartamento Magazine

In your debut novel, Freshwater, you write: ‘Many things begin with a name’. ‘Akwaeke’ means ‘python’s egg’ in Igbo. The first years of my existence, I was told it meant ‘precious’. Later I found out...

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@yungdeadthing

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last year, when i asked @thefolafrancis to star in this music video for ‘in the mood’, i never thought she wouldn’t be here to see it 💔🕊️ directed and shot by @yagazieemezi 🎥✨ watch the full video here:

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Vivek did a thing 👉🏾👈🏾 #TheDeathOfVivekOji 🙌🏾💥🎉 Congratulations to the phenomenal team behind this book!

Calvert Morgan

@CalMorgan

4 years

THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI, this magnificent novel of family, friendship, grief, and joy, has just become @azemezi ’s first @nytimes bestseller. I couldn’t be prouder to work with this truly visionary author. Congratulations to them! And to the amazing @riverheadbooks team.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

I’ve been staying off Twitter recently but still—what people have been sharing of #PublishingPaidMe has genuinely hurt my feelings, particularly what white writers get for debuts. DEBUTS.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

No worries if you can't buy/preorder! Check out or request my books from your local library, they do ebooks! 📚💞For those who can afford it, I also run a fundraising Patreon for Black Trans people if you wanna help out with someone's rent or healthcare!

AKWAEKE

@yungdeadthing

4 years

An update on my Patreon! It is now 100% fundraising for Black Trans people ✊🏾💞🎊The April funds finally processed so I was able to send $50 to ten people & I hope to send more next month. Please consider joining or sharing the link! We all we got.

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@yungdeadthing

4 years

Man, so a lot of authors are isolated and scared and worried about their careers right now. Doing this work often feels precarious on a good day, let alone now. I wanted to offer some reassurance along a particular front, and I hope it's useful to someone out there.

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@yungdeadthing

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Delighted to share that I’m now represented in film and television by the brilliant folk at @Vervetla ! 🙌🏾✨🎥🎉

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

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Akwaeke Emezi Signs With Verve (Exclusive)

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