Seconds ago: Respect for Marriage Act signed into law, codifying same-sex marriage in the US.

Let me share our family with you... One of a million US same-sex households who just want to love & be loved. Celebrating this win for equality, love & family. 🌈

#love #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

Just learned that my Nebula and Hugo award-winning africanfuturist BINTI TRILOGY is in its 24th printing and has sold over 114,000 copies..and those are only the *paperback* numbers! Wonderful!

Also, the series is finally going to get an Arabic edition! Just signed the contract days ago. 😃

#africanfuturism

I’d include a photo of the book cover, but that seems to be failing whenever I try, sigh.

Friends! One of my titles, the Andlios Collection, is a part of an awesome StoryBundle right now. The theme? Hopepunk. The sort of nebulous subgenre that's about presenting a future worth fighting for, instead of one mired in the muck and mire of the grim.

There are nineteen books total from eleven authors and it's well worth your time. #scifi #scifibooks #ebooks #fantasy #hopepunk

https://storybundle.com/hope

On December 10, 1823, Mary Anning found the first complete Plesiosaurus. #womeninstem #histsci

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/mary-anning-and-the-hunt-of-primeval-monsters/

Dorothy Pitman-Hughes ⎯Ms. Magazine cofounder, childcare activist, & Black rights leader⎯ died last week. #RIP Ms. Dorothy ✊ 🖤 ♀

Side-by-side photos from 1971 & 2014 of #DorothyPitmanHughes & #GloriaSteinem ⎯each with raised fist salute⎯ are a reminder of our long & ongoing struggle for #Equality.

#BlackActivist #Author #ChildWelfareAdvocate
#WomenEmpowerment #WomenEmpoweringWomen
#WomensRights #Feminism #FeministSolidarity #BlackFemininity #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #WeWillPersist