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writer. culture worker. communista. black studies student. lover from the 901 🤠〽️
📍dtx ➡️ atl
✏️ @apogeelit
📚 @speculativeliterary

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moving cross the country ain’t cheap 🤪 to help me get to grad school, hire a homie this summer for writing and editorial projects! ✍🏾

Would love to help you polish off your fiction or nonfiction projects, or write you a beautiful new artist bio, or create artwork labels and exhibition descriptions for your upcoming exhibition! I curate booklists and community education syllabi, I facilitate workshops across a variety of topics—I’m open to all types of projects this summer! Please do get in touch with any ideas you have 🤩 rates negotiable per project type, references available upon request, see past writing and editorial projects on my website 🔗🤲🏾 by @jasmrenea

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feeling deeply blessed to have witnessed my beautiful friend + big get married to the love of her life this weekend 😍💍🥹

being on their homelands, amongst their family and with so many sweet friend reunions, witnessing this beautiful union was such an honor!

lovin’ love a little extra these days ❣️ taken in Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes by @jasmrenea

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long post up on the newsletter about the importance of political education during a time of heightened anti-intellectualism and when we as a whole are deeply miseducated 💡✍🏽

would love to hear from fellow movement educators about how this landed for you! and to all - I welcome you to make communal study and learning a priority in 2023 and beyond 📖📚 link in bio! blackbluegreen.substack.com

#politicaleducation #movementhistory #pedagogy #anticapitalist #movementeducator #bellhooks #audrelorde by @jasmrenea

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SUPPORT A STUDENT TEACHER! 🚸📚 For anyone familiar with the process to become a well trained, certified educator, in their final semester of training student-teachers are expected to teach full time at minimum wage—creating an inequitable and unsustainable system where many student-teachers have to work 80 hours a week to survive while trying to give their all to their students. Here’s an opportunity for our community to show up for a future educator! Donate to Milah’s @jamilah.jpg student teacher survival fund todo they can focus their mind and energy on giving their students a great school year. As a chronically ill and disabled educator who has a real passion for their students, Milah is incredibly poised to be a PHENOMENAL educator and just needs our help to get over this final hump! Any amount helps, and all funds will go toward covering rent, gas, and groceries during this student-teaching semester. Give what you can, share with a friend, and send some love out in the air for all of our teachers and students as they begin a new school year 📚🎓📓

CASHAPP: SJARMILIUS
VENMO: @JAMILAH-WILLIAMS-6
PAYPAL: @JARMILIUS
ZELLE/APPLE CASH: DM @jamilah.jpg FOR INFO by @jasmrenea

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Friends! I’m teaching a one day, three hour generative writing workshop on August 22 called “Black. Spirit. Fiction.” ✍🏾 Together we’ll explore work from Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, @tananarivedue and Rita M. Woods as we dive into this world of spirit forward, ancestor guided fiction penned by Black Women writers. Part craft talk, part writing group, we’ll spend ample time working on our own projects before closing with reflections on the power of speculative fiction for guiding us to an alternate future. This workshop is completely virtual and offered on a sliding scale from $15-$50: pay what you can or pay it forward! Link in bio for more info and to RSVP.

Hit me up with any questions, hope to see you there 🦋🌍 by @jasmrenea

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DFW, where do I even begin 🥹 Simply put, I couldn’t have asked for a better place to do my early twenties. From July 2021-July 2026, y’all have grown and nourished me in ways I’ll be grateful for my whole life. Everyone pictured (and so many who aren’t) has taught me something about myself, about the true meaning of community, about steadfastness and commitment and discipline, about love and care and friendship—not as abstract terms but as verbs meant to be lived in. I couldn’t embark on this road to ATL and the PhD without each of you who have laid a brick at the altar of my becoming. Truly, thank you from the bottom of my heart for accepting me as an honorary Texan. Thank you for seeing me, holding me, uplifting me, going with my crazy ideas, letting me stand by you in our shared struggles, and reflecting back to me all that I try to put out in the world. It wouldn’t be hard to leave if I didn’t have so much to miss. Love y’all bad, never goodbye, only see you later 🤎🤲🏾💐 by @jasmrenea

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Hello Storytellers! 🏳️‍🌈💋 Sapphic Storytellers is hosting a Creative Writing Workshop in partnership with @jasmrenea from @speculativeliterary at @apprentice.oakcliff ! 📝📚💬

📆 When: Thursday 7/9 | 6:30-9:30pm
📍 Where: Apprentice Creative Space 919 Morrell Ave #110, Dallas, TX 75203
👥 Who: This event is exclusively for 18+ sapphic-identifying queer people! 🏳️‍🌈👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏳️‍⚧️ This is a trans-inclusive space and we do not welcome TERFs. Open to all writing experience levels.

📖 In this workshop, we will analyze the work of Jacqueline Woodson, an African-American lesbian author who explores race, class, and family history through her lyrical writing style. We will talk through writing craft techniques and provide time for generative writing with prompts.

🎟️ RSVP link in bio, tickets are free!

Excited to see you all there!💋 by @jasmrenea

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Summer is here and we want to hear your best work! Join SpecLit for our much awaited summer-themed live reading and open mic 💐🌞

We want to hear about your steamy summer flings, your warm weather melancholy, your funniest vacation encounters, your dreamy odes to the summer sun, and everything in between. Open to all, no experience reading in front of a crowd or previous participation at a SpecLit event necessary! Come show off the power of your pen ✍🏾 in front of a supportive audience in the vibiest space provided by @apprentice.oakcliff

RSVP link in bio - let us know you’re coming, and grab a spot at the mic! Performance slots limited, let us know in advance to secure your spot as there will be limited day of sign ups.

See you there, tell a friend! 🤲🏾💃🏾 by @jasmrenea

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This month, SpecLit is going analog 📬 Join us for a letter writing workshop on May 28th @apprentice.oakcliff ✍🏾

Letter writing is an ancient mode of communication, personal archiving, and connection. Some of my earliest memories include writing letters back and forth to my grandma, and we continued this practice up until her passing 💐 Learning at a young age that you don’t need anything but pencil, paper, and a stamp to make yourself heard and keep connection alive has become a foundational tenet to my writing practice. I hope this workshop will introduce you to the joys of keeping a penpal and even writing letters to your past and future self 💌

Come out to discuss your favorite epistolary (def: a book or text written in the form of a letter or series of letters) texts and write letters to your homie-lovers on fun stationery! There will also be information on current political prisoners in the United States and information on how to write to them and/or become a penpal for an incarcerated comrade.

Hope to see you there, bring a friend! RSVP link in bio 🔗 blue background, green text describing letter writing workshop on may 28th at apprentice oak cliff at 7:30pm by @jasmrenea

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For the writers in the house ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

Speculative Literary’s spring/summer 2026 writing group is here! Write For Our Lives is a monthly generative writing group meeting on the last Saturday in April, May, and June @auracoffeedtx in Denton, TX.

Writing often gets credited as a highly independent art form, but here at SpecLit we believe that often the best work is created in/with/for your community, in response to and in relationship with our real lives. Especially in a time when we’re increasingly being encouraged to hand over our mental and creative faculties to big tech, it’s critical that we retain our own voices and imaginations.

Whether you’re a beginner writer or a seasoned professional, if you’re looking to experiment with poetry or polish off your novel—this is the space for you! This is a low stakes, high reward opportunity to dedicate consistent time to your writing practice this spring/summer in community with others. Link in bio to RSVP 🔗📝 taken in Aura Coffee by @jasmrenea

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6 months ago

There’s something sacred about the kitchen table… ✍🏽✨

Join us for an intimate Kitchen Table Writing Workshop at Black Writers Weekend Dallas ✍🏽 where stories are shared, voices are nurtured, and creativity flows freely.

Inspired by the legacy of Black artists, writers, and storytellers, this workshop is all about honoring the spaces where our stories are born. Together, we’ll explore the lineage of kitchen table artistry, exchange real-life experiences, and dive into independent writing with thoughtful prompts to guide you.

Led by @jasmrenea and powered by @nonamebookclubdfw @nonamereads, this is more than a workshop, it’s a creative experience rooted in community, reflection, and expression.

📍 Apprentice Creative Space // Saturday, May 2nd
@ 11AM

Bring your pen, your story, and your voice. We’ll take care of the rest.

Register now at blackwritersweekend.com 🎟️ 🔗 in our bio!

In collaboration with @booksandbrownsugar.co 🤎 @pac_dallas

#BlackWritersWeekend #BWWDallas #BlackWriters #CreativeCommunity #BlackCreatives by @jasmrenea

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We’re running it back on Essay Club! 📝 Join us Thursday, April 30th at 7:30pm @apprentice.oakcliff for our next meeting. Together we’re reading a recent essay published in @scalawagmagazine by @abitmoresol titled “The Parables Are An Autopsy: The Black and Global Southern Parables of Collapse.” An incredibly lyrical yet informative piece of writing that bridges climate disasters in the US with ongoing genocide in Palestine and everything in between, this meditation on our current overlapping crises presents a great introductory foray into contemporary political writing 📚⚒️

As always, this event is for/by Black Queer folks yet free and open to the public/all those who respect the space! Link in bio to RSVP (spots limited!) and to check out the essay, though don’t worry if you can’t in advance—we’ll read it together! 🫂 taken in Apprentice Creative Space by @jasmrenea

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