Jamaila Brinkley

Friends, I’m mostly posting over there now (and more than I had been posting here lately), so if you’re looking for my brand of yelling about things on the internet, that’s where to go.

Ethically speaking, the fact that they are still trying to lay the blame for their own actions - repeated ones! - on authors of color is unforgivable. RWA could have saved itself. It didn’t. Let it go. (4/4)

Practically speaking, any organization that communicates this poorly has no business representing writers, who are literally professional communicators. (3/4)

If you are still a member of RWA, after today’s bankruptcy filing in which they described the cause of their loss of membership as a “dispute over DEI” between certain people rather than a decades-long history of organizational racism that… (1/4)

My office is in a fairly industrial warehouse-heavy area and even with that context it took me at least two minutes of real horror to figure out that the truck I passed that said GENUINE CAT PARTS on the side was talking about tractors.

Returning to Twitter briefly to post my annual gratitude picture - I take and post this every year to remind myself how lucky I am to get to do this, to have gotten through a long struggle with infertility, and how intriguing and fun parenthood continues to be.

We opened our Santa’s sleigh Lego set and it was missing one of the reindeer, so I contacted Lego via the form on their website and got the cutest personal message back.

Hi, it’s me, your friend Jamaila, here to outrage every corner of the internet and tell you that my favorite kind of bagel to eat with lox is cinnamon raisin. You may begin the discourse. Quote your hot takes.

I have never in my life been cooler than I was tonight.

@OliviaWrites @suleikhasnyder @jellybeanrae oh no Olivia this is too good, do we have to make this happen??

Okay. The opening credits of FOUND feature the words "and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Sir." SIR. I repeat...his basement-dwelling kidnapper name is SIR. They knew what they're doing. We're so fucked.

@suleikhasnyder @jellybeanrae Ok but what’s the anthology going to be called? I just need to know for… reasons

@jellybeanrae Group therapy discount! 😂 We can work out our issues through fiction.

I just learned you can get therapy through Costco and it feels like the most on-brand revelation for me.

“I like the kazoo sound, because it’s very classy.” - a thing my nine year old son just said to me

When Instagram suggests mommy influencers who are copy/pasting tweets from your author pals. 👀🫠 (at least they gave credit!) The algorithm doesn’t believe in boundaries. (cc: @LadyHawkins)

@nicki_o_ The theatre program had my back, lol. Turns out the only reason I couldn’t find a confirmation email - I had registered her a month ago - was their automated email system was glitching.

Called in a panic to make sure I’d already registered my kid for theatre tomorrow and when I said her name, the person who answered the phone said “Oh! We LOVE her. Don’t worry, if she’s not on there I’ll PERSONALLY ignore the waitlist and put her in.” Watch out, Broadway. 😂

I’m back on my tiny desserts bullshit. These are peanut butter mousse with graham cracker cake base and chocolate ganache. Edible gold leaf on top didn’t come out exactly the way I wanted but they’re delicious.

Very excited that the weather has finally cooled down in time for Rosh Hashanah because there is no way I was making a brisket in 95 degree weather, with many apologies to my ancestors in Miami Beach.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT FELICIA’S INCREDIBLE COVER and also the fact that Jewish historical romance is being featured in EW??? Also let’s note that Felicia gives great interview! MORE PLS ew.com/books/snow-whi…

Things my children have left out for me to find, vol. 187: - Barbie lying in state in a clear coffin (cause of death unknown) on the foyer table (must pay respects immediately upon entering house) - Green! Green! Green! Green! Green! (on the kitchen counter, next to the stove)