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The Memory Librarian debuting on the New York Times Best Sellers List is history in the making. 98% of authors on the best sellers lists are White* In the 50 years between 1970 and 2020, less than ten speculative fiction titles by Black and Indigenous authors made the New York Times Best Sellers List** As a participant in @brit @beselfmade pitch competition in December, Sistah Scifi crystalized the vision is to double that number in the next ten years. The success of The Memory Librarian is proof that we - as a community - can do that!!! * From Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction by Richard Sean So #RichardSeanSo and Just How White Is the Book Industry? By Richard Sean So in the New York Times December 11, 2020 ** @IsisAsare manually culled this data by reviewing weekly New York Times Best Sellers List on @Wikipedia. If you have a better data point, please let us know!! Reposted from @janellemonae Um wow. “The Memory Librarian” made the #NYTbestsellers list! With this being my first time in the literary world I am very humbled. I wanted to say THANK YOU to every single fandroid who found #TheMemoryLibrarian, who read or listened, who attended the tour, who posted or wrote about this labor of love. None of this kinda stuff happens without your support. It's been such an honor to create with my community of collaborators familyyyyyy @alayadj, @weredawgz, @eve.ewing, @yodelnyc, @shereereneethomas. 🥹 Thank you to @harpervoyagerus for believing in our IMAGINATIONS and the collection of stories I was passionate about putting out. To the booksellers and librarians for making THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN available to readers, THANK YOU. You are NOT forgotten. And to my communities I hold close and constantly rep, you know who you are, I love you. This one’s for you! If you haven’t gotten your copy come join us🙏🏾🤖🤍 #NYTbestseller #afrofuturism #scifi #DirtyComputer #JanelleMonae #BlackAuthorsMatter #BlackWritersMatter #BlackReadersMatter #SistahScifi // @wondaland @monaedroid @harpercollins @free_kgd @nytimes https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc5WpjdrXJN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🎶🎶 Dirty computer, walk in line If you look closer you'll recognize I'm not that special, I'm broke inside Crashing slowly, the bugs are in me Dirty computer, breaking down Picking my face up off the ground I'll love you in this space and time 'Cause baby, all I'll ever be is Your dirty computer Dirty computer Searching for someone to fix my life Text message caught up in the sky Oh, if you love me, won't you please reply? Oh, can't you see that it's only me, your dirty computer? Dirty computer Your dirty computer Dirty computer I'll love you in this space and time I'll love you in this space and time Reposted @harpervoyagerus Step back into the world of Dirty Computer. #TheMemoryLibrarian by @janellemonae ! (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBeSuBPuF9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

After months of being out of stock, we have hard cover editions of The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe!! The short story anthology incl months of being out of stock, we have hard cover editions of The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe!! The short story anthology includes stories by @shereereneethomas, Danny Lore, and Yohanca Delgado @yodelnyc. Purchase link in bio:@sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com| https://sistahscifi.com/products/the-memory-librarian-and-other-stories-of-dirty-computer-by-janelle-monae Reposted @readinginjenue 🫧 The Memory Librarian by @JanelleMonáe SYNOPSIS: In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape…and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms. Expanding from that mythos, these stories fully explore what it’s like to live in such a totalitarian existence…and what it takes to get out of it. Building off the traditions of speculative writers such as Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Nnedi Okorafor—and filled with the artistic genius and powerful themes that have made Monáe a worldwide icon in the first place—The Memory Librarian serves readers tales grounded in the human trials of identity expression, technology, and love, but also reaching through to the worlds of memory and time within, and the stakes and power that exists there. Thank you to partners @bibliolifestyle and @harpervoyagerus for this gifted copy. 🔖 #thememorylibrarian #janellemonae #janellemonáe #bibliolifestyle #igreads #bibliophile #bookphotography #booksofinstagram #bookishpost #bookishfeatures #booknerd #bookishflatlay #booklover #bookstagrammer #ilovebooks #bookblogger #booklove #bookgram #booksofig #becauseofreading #fortheloveofbooks #whattoread #readingismagic #booksbooksbooks #teacherswhoread #iteachhighschoolenglish #sistahscifi (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpfkhhML36W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Who finished reading The Memory Librarian?!? While ALL the stories are *amazing*, we want to know which was your favorite. Vote in the comments! We will work to invite the collaborator for your favorite story to a Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday in November. Our favorite is Save Changes. If you haven't read The Memory Librarian, you can purchase using the link in our bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com or check it out from your local #library! In The Memory Librarian, Janelle Monáe and an esteemed cohort of collaborating writers bring to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of her album Dirty Computer, exploring how different threads of liberation -- queerness, race, gender plurality and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape. “In this moving, triumphant collection, singer Monáe returns to the dystopian world of her Dirty Computer concept album and short film...This is a knockout.” –Publishers Weekly, *starred review @publisherswkly “Blistering, hopeful, and richly written. . . All readers will finish the book craving more of these extremely queer, bold stories that battle gatekeeping and erasure, digging into both the worst potential of a surveillance state and the gritty glimmer of the rebellion that can defeat it.” —Booklist, *starred review Collaborators Save Changes - YOHANCA DELGADO @yodelnyc Timebox - EVE L. EWING @eve.ewing The Memory Librarian - ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON @alayadj Nevermind - DANNY LORE @weredawgz Timebox Altar(ed) - SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS @SHEREERENÉETHOMAS @harpervoyagerus , @williammorrowbooks , and @janellemonae #thememorylibrarian #janellemonae #janellemonáe #newrelease #afrofuturism #shortstories #futurism #scifi #readersofinstagram #readersofig #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #dirtycomputer #bookobsessed #sciencefiction #booksaremyhappyplace #sistahscifi #booksofinstagram #booksofig // @HarperCollins @monaedroid @librofm @free_kgd https://www.instagram.com/p/CgzO6chLOZE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

congrats janelle monae and fellow artist https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1963&type=status #rmaalbc  

Happy Juneteenth y’all! We are celebrating the best way we know how… by spotlighting on Black authors, Black narrators, #audiobooks & Black owned bookstores. Check out the link below to see picks from @TheCollectiveOakland, @BlackPearlBooks, and @Esowonbooks published by @Librofm. Our favorite pick is #MamaDay by #GloriaNaylor. If we were to make recommendations, it would be #TheMemoryLibrarian by @JanelleMonae and #DreadNation / #DeathlessDivide by Justina Ireland. Both titles explore what it means to be free from an intersectional lens of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Which book would you recommend and why? https://blog.libro.fm/black-owned-bookstores-juneteenth-picks/ 📍 @commabookstore 📸 @kadyyellow #juneteenth #juneteenth2022 #happyjuneteenth #happyjuneteenth2022 #celebrateblackculture #melaninrich #blackqueens #myblackisbeautiful #blackbeauty #melaningram #melanated #blackpower #melaninqueen #melaninking #blackexcellence #blackauthors #blackculture #blackhistory #unapologeticallyblack #blackandproud #sistahscifi #sistahscifibookstore https://www.instagram.com/p/CfClaOZvcyK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This is what a Sunday Bookish Tea Party looks like!!! What tea are you sipping on this morning? Reposted from @perpetual.question.mark We might manage to finish @janellemonae 's book this morning! Thanks to @sistahscifi for sending out our so quickly! ! #TheMemoryLibrarian #JanelleMonae #Afrofuturism #DirtyComputer #BlackScienceFiction #BlackScifiShortStories #BlackAuthorsMatter #BlackWritersMattee #BlackReadersMatter #SistahScifi #bookishteaparty // @wondaland @wondalandpictures @harpercollins @monaedroid https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd3XO1TL1Bw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=