"Race baiting with a deck full of race cards." – A publication that doesn't GAF about your opinions if you're not for Black liberation 🤷🏿♀️
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It’s become increasingly difficult to square a natural desire to be in community with the unnatural effort it now takes to build community for ourselves. This newsletter aims to change that 🙏🏽 - @HariZiyad
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NEW: Time is precious, and you should respect your audience enough to handle it with care. But an audience experiencing confusion or disconnectedness doesn’t have to be a waste of time, if you do it right.
"You Can See Everything" does it right.
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NEW: A dystopian short story about the most nauseatingly endless cycle of public shaming.
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#shortstory #fiction #politics
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The voting debate is so redundant because it’s not really about whether voting is effective. It’s about whether 1 person filling a few bubbles every 2-4 years is *enough to resist fascism.* The obvious answer is no. Some people will never accept that bc it’d require them do more.
"Love is what makes connection feel necessary. It's the thing a story element must do, otherwise it has no meaning. Love is purpose, & that purpose is always connected to your purpose as a writer. Love is the reason you're writing your story. The reason you write, period."
NEW: What keeps clients returning & referring friends is how I help with their writing process. My toolkit is geared toward neurodivergent storytellers / those struggling with maintaining momentum, and this has been my most consistent, most useful advice:
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This caused a storm when it was originally published 😅 Afropunk even commissioned a contradicting response without telling me lol. In hindsight, it's no surprise they removed all my work without notice. Part 2 of republishing it all to my stack. Enjoy! hariziyad.substack.com/p/bla…
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NEW: The first feature screenplay I completed, I'M WORRIED ABOUT YOU is inspired by my time as one of my mother’s caregivers during the last few months of her life, which happened to coincide with the beginnings of my divorce.
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NEW: Originally published on @afropunk, which inexplicably disappeared all of my work 😠: "Black gender is always gender done wrong, done dysfunctionally, done in a way that isn't 'normal.'" hariziyad.substack.com/p/my-…
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NEW: “It’s usually a riot whenever Giselle’s sister, Lunage, calls. Not always a fun riot. Sometimes—maybe it’s even accurate to call it a lot of times—it’s a riot in which expensive cars are set aflame & windows are shattered & somebody’s going to jail.”
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#shortstory #parody
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NEW: One of my most unpopular opinions is that Beyoncé’s actually good in OBSESSED! Instead of continuing to subject friends to annoyingly loud versions of this argument, I thought it'd be fun to write the short story of what I want the film to have been. So here you go! 🔗👇🏽
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NEW SHORT STORY: A girl discovers she can turn invisible at will, just as her name and identity begin to disappear. With help from her newfound ability, she goes in search of a new name before it’s too late.
#afrofuturism #fiction #shortstory
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“My little girl will die soon. I want to believe it. Not that she’ll die sooner than later, but that it’ll happen when it’s going to. I want to believe the truth. I want, ‘I’d love her all over again, knowing I’ll lose her,’ to be the truth” - @HariZiyad
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NEW: @chzcruz & I just found out our baby has brain cancer. One year is the best case scenario.
This is about the journey to realizing I would hold this grief again a thousand times, if that’s what it means to have ever held her.
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The story of Starshine, an enslaved mother seeking to shield her son—whom we might call “queer” using the language of today—from any reminders of slavery on his thirteenth birthday, is what we came up with.
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Want to see what a paid subscription to my Substack will get you? Unpublished creative works like this Outstanding Screenplay Shorts Competition – 2023 Quarterfinalist, co-written by me and my spouse, @chzcruz!
Link below 😘
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"The White-owned, mainstream media published 249 articles in 22 days on Jason Arday, according to data from NewsCord, a UK media watchdog.
By comparison, in 2024, in the weeks after the then newly released Epstein files showed long-standing ties between Epstein and Peter Mandelson, former UK Ambassador to the U.S., the UK media mentioned Mandelson 119 times, NewsCord found."--@ibramxk
theemancipator.org/2026/08/1… | @the_emancipator
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few moments of abject anti-blackness throughout the the western world astonish me these days but the level of cruelty and disgust directed at this brother even postmortem is absolutely mind blowing i am at a loss for words there’s so little hope for this world i’m sorry
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We are asked to dance in the same street where Amadou Diallo was slaughtered because Mamdani won; & if we interrupt the dancing with reminders that the mayor insists on keeping genocidal Jessica Tisch as his police commissioner, we’ll be shunned
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"I've made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police, that I will not be defunding the police, & that to me, delivering critical public safety also looks like working with our police department, alongside many other partners, & we've seen over the first 7 months of this administration what that can look like when we're talking about the fewest murders on record in NYC, the fewest shooting incidents on record in NYC, and that to me is how we measure a lot of our public safety." -@NYCMayor
The NYPD budget stayed flat and crime went down, but instead of using this as an opportunity to educate the public that funding the police doesn't correlate to more public safety, he makes the opposite case.
"There was also beauty in trying. Remember? There was possibility. Remember how wondrous it felt, embracing your loved one with tears in your eyes, watching that precinct burn?" - @HariZiyad
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