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Pepper’s stoked for the next thing on her reading list, “the Viral Underclass,” by @thrasherxy… but I’m gonna crack the binding first. If it’s anything like the brilliant analysis I’ve read and heard from him so far, both of us stand to learn a lot https://t.co/WHZSIMwC0r

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@apoorva_nyc I realize I may be a bit late, but… on the speculative fiction angle… Emergency Skin by NK Jemisin My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

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@apoorva_nyc I realize I may be a bit late, but… on the speculative fiction angle… Emergency Skin by NK Jemisin My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

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@apoorva_nyc I realize I may be a bit late, but… on the speculative fiction angle… Emergency Skin by NK Jemisin My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

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@G_Dub_Ya @smconsult5 @Leopoldtweets @Otto342 @kleegrubaugh @Blake_Allen13 It’s wild that this is even a debate. There is tons of primary source material, including writings from Stephen Austin & John Q Adams, explicitly saying that slavery was central to the establishment of Texas & to resistance to the Mexican govt, which was outlawing it in the 1830s

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@apoorva_nyc I realize I may be a bit late, but… on the speculative fiction angle… Emergency Skin by NK Jemisin My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor