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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory
@TananariveDue
Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror. Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM She/Her
Jan 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I was too young to meet Dr. King, but we did share a personal fear in common: my late mother's German shepherd, Scout.

Even recently, one of my parents' civil rights allies from the 1960s recalled how Scout "bit" Dr. King in St. Augustine - but that's not the story we heard 1/ Image My parents, John Due and Patricia Stephens Due, always told us that Scout LUNGED at Dr. King at a press conference...and they could see the naked fear in Dr. King's eyes.

For context: St. Augustine was one of the most violent battlefronts for civil rights 2/
Jul 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Your loved ones, not strangers, may be most likely to give you COVID. When the masks come off.

I got COVID from my sister. After recovering, I masked up & mostly isolated at a convention. But I had dinner with a dear friend -- who found out the next day she had COVID. With this new variant, some people get reinfected within SIX WEEKS of getting COVID -- so I'm lucky I didn't get it again after dinner with my friend (indoors, unmasked in an isolated part of the restaurant -- but SHE had it)

If you know me, you know I have been VERY careful...
Nov 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
If you're not already watching it, #colininblackandwhite is FANTASTIC. Seeing where he started, especially the lack of racial awareness in his home, makes his journey all the more remarkable to me.
Dec 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
My 16-year-old son, who is on his high school football team, FINALLY acknowledged to me that he knows I'm the one who taught him how to throw a football spiral! He has been disputing this for years. No, his team is not playing during Covid. But they do have no-contact practices now.
Dec 4, 2020 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
I’m reading @Stephen King’s THE STAND as a part of #thestandpodcast & and I’m close to the end, where the Free Zone characters (the Good Side) are meeting the fear-motivated followers of Randall Flagg (the Bad Side)…and I'm again struck by parallels in our true-life plague 1/ Image Covid isn't Captain Trips. We lucked out. But this "shambling zombie" virus is having a devastating impact in the U.S. because of Covid denial and Tr*mp's epic failure to lead.

This week, one of my RTs drew a bunch of trolls & I visited denier profiles as I was blocking them...
Dec 26, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
About to see CATS.

I don’t often see movies because they’re supposed to be terrible...but when I do, I make it a movie that’s supposed to be EPICALLY terrible. I just hope I won’t traumatize myself like I did the time I saw the last Alien movie TWICE because I’d promised I’d see it with Steve...and I’d already seen it without him.
Oct 6, 2019 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Please follow and amplify the #JoshuaBrown hashtag.
This courageous witness was found shot to death after testifying against former police officer Amber Guyger for murdering #BothamJean.

Please learn about this story and share it.

dallasnews.com/news/crime/201…

#BlackLivesMatter UPDATE: This #JoshuaBrown story gets more troubling as I learn more:

"Merritt wrote in a Facebook post Saturday night that the medical examiner told him Brown was shot in the mouth and chest."

cnn.com/2019/10/05/us/…
Aug 4, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Please don’t expect the people who have sacrificed and fought white supremacy for generations to do your work now that it has come to your attention. First, retire the sentence “This is not our country.” Read the history books. Watch some documentaries.

Of course we can be better, but not if we can’t acknowledge what we have been. This history is tied to the guns. How Tr*mp rose to power. Why so many are complicit.
Mar 30, 2019 • 5 tweets • 6 min read
On my way back from a great visit to the science fiction collection at Cushing Library @tamulibraries @TAMU - one of the largest in the country. Fantastic exhibition is called "The Stars are Our: Infinite Diversities in Science Fiction & Fantasy" - A quick thread on what I saw My novel Blood Colony (#3 in my African Immortals Series), about immortals illegally distributing their healing blood in an "Underground Railroad" for the sick, is on display above a collector's edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Also, Lt. Uhura meets Commander @SonequaMG
Jan 7, 2019 • 16 tweets • 16 min read
Y’ALL I CO-EXEC PRODUCED A HORROR DOCUMENTARY COMING OUT ON @shudder!!! I was so excited I forgot to say it’s a BLACK HORROR doc - but I’m on my phone at Starbucks and can’t wait to tweet more about this when I get home!!!
Oct 27, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In Charlottesville, after shouts of "Jews will not replace us!" & anti-racism activist Heather Heyer's murder, Tr*mp said "very fine people on both sides" and helped normalize violent anti-Semitism & white supremacy. This is his legacy. His followers still refuse to see it. On Wednesday, the day the first explosive devices were found, a white gunman tried to walk into a black church in Kentucky to shoot worshipers. When he couldn't get in, he went to a parking lot and killed a black man & woman." WEDNESDAY.
Apr 23, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is life for black people under y'all's police state. Black men, women and children. Don't complain to me about "identity politics." It's called trying to live. Trying to raise our families. Trying to survive. A year ago, my son & friends were as upset when they saw police handcuff a black teen at the park. "He wasn't doing anything." I wrote to our local police chief. To her credit, she called immediately to address it. But in the end, it was neighbors: "See something, say something."
Feb 9, 2018 • 8 tweets • 13 min read
Since we have a week to fill until #BlackPanther I'll kick off an #AfrofuturismShortFilmFestival of black scifi, magical realism and horror. First up is PUMZI (2009) directed by @wanuri Kahiu of Kenya. I love this film!
(Use the hashtag to suggest faves.) Before Daniel Kaluuya was W'Kabi in #BlackPanther or an Oscar-nominated actor for Get Out, he starred in this masterful and heartbreaking short film by @kibwetavares, JONAH (2013). vimeo.com/58646255
#AfrofuturismShortFilmFestival
Jan 7, 2018 • 15 tweets • 21 min read
7 Reasons Scholars Are Teaching GET OUT & Why You Should Too –
I teach a @UCLA class, "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival & the Black Horror Aesthetic." The linchpin: @JordanPeele’s Get Out. Last quarter, he surprised my class.
@GetOutMovie #GetOut #BlackHorror #GetOutSyllabus MASS INCARCERATION. Jordan Peele told my class: “When I had this image of Chris in this dark hole…I realized I was talking about the prison industrial system.” The system is “abducting black people and throwing them in holes.”
@GetOutMovie #GetOut #BlackHorror #GetOutSyllabus
Oct 12, 2017 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
.@JordanPeele in today's #BlackHorror class at @UCLA on The Sunken Place: "I realized it was the prison industrial complex." So many lives. "It's the entire system that keeps us down, external and internal." --@JordanPeele on The Sunken Place in today's #BlackHorror class.