Virginia Eubanks

Writing about violence and care. Bylines @guardian, @NYTmag, &etc. On IG ( and now.

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✨ AGTOWL receives a Kirkus Star! ✨

A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving received a starred review from Kirkus! Out August 11, the memoir is the hardest & best thing I’ve ever made, so the honor touches me deeply.

https://t.co/CTd8PqQ2oB

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Thanks to the legions of literary caregivers who help get this book into the world: @fsgbooks @GoldinAgency

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✨ AGTOWL receives a Kirkus Star! ✨

A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving received a starred review from Kirkus! Out August 11, the memoir is the hardest & best thing I’ve ever made, so the honor touches me deeply.

https://t.co/CTd8PqQ2oB

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COVER REVEAL! 🌊 A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING is a spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Available on Aug 11, 2026. https://t.co/PdTsvTFNzL @fsgbooks

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4/4: It is esp crucial to support rural stations, as they often provide communities with their only local news and life-saving weather and emergency alerts (mine are @ncpr and @KASUradio). https://t.co/kW26DsIO30

Please, if you're able, help now. https://t.co/FQg3Ii5jkk

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1/4: I got my start in public media. I still remember when the Rodney King verdict came down my first year @kzsc. We had a remarkably good public affairs department.

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3/4: It's the model I've tried to live up to ever since. I see lots of quotes of @TimothySnyder's first rule of defeating tyranny ("Don't obey in advance."), fewer of the second ("Defend institutions.") Public media in the United States is an institution worth defending.

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Also, read everything @mcgowankat has written for NPR on caregiving!

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Excited to see this new film...

"Caregivers are on their own--and...spend an average of $7,242 out of pocket each year. According to a recent DoL report, they also miss out on an average of $43,500 in income due to the demands of adult care."

https://t.co/pJBO8BK9vt

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"In the early 20th century, disabled and older people who needed help were relegated to almshouses, which were public institutions of last resort."

No matter what I write about, I always end up back at poorhouses.

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@maestro_laycon Thanks, @maestro_laycon !! I do think the book still has thing to say in this moment. ; )

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I'm at the stage of editing this draft where I have to think deeply about things like: Is it Jell-o? Jell-O? JELL-O? #amwriting

[Maud Barret Bertelloni @M_Bar_Ber]

Vous connaissiez Virginia Eubanks @PopTechWorks pour son enquête sur les technologies de l'État social américain. On en discute sur @AOC_media, avec l’actualité américaine et un témoignage sur son expérience de proche aidante et sur comment le soin pourrait être réinventé.

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Finally made the move to Instagram. Follow me over there if you'd like to know more about new writing and adventures in wilderness survival. https://t.co/U390pdAiOZ

[Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts]

I’m so excited about OUR RIGHT TO CARE conference in April—at @pennlaw & Crossroads Women’s Center. Honored to co-organize and co-keynote with so many amazing activists, scholars & caregivers.

[Brian Mann @BrianMannADK]

As Meta announces the end to professional fact-checking, please -please- accept finally that social media is not a viable way to get factual information. It was a noble experiment. It failed. Traditional journalism, while imperfect, is the way. Please pay a little bit and use it.

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@salaam Don't know this one! Thanks for the rec.

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Putting together my Political Storytelling syllabus and trying to find an example of a longform journalism story that has particularly excellent pacing. Like, just-can't-put-it-down pacing. Any ideas?

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This class is going to be great.

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3) For "point of view": Joan Didion, “Insider Baseball,” The New York Review of Books, October 27, 1988. https://t.co/qS5zKZNzVj