Tara

Cat mama. Public health data nerd by day, writer and voracious reader by night. Vegan. Gisher. Nerdfighter. Retired roller derby official.

[Tara @graceless880]

And now we seem to be moving right into Chapter Two.

[Tara @graceless880]

The sequel is called Bloodmarked, and it is SO GOOD. And now I want to re-read BOTH books again. So excited to see where the series goes next!

[Tara @graceless880]

I DID go back & read Legendborn by @tracydeonn immediately after finishing. Completed re-read #4 Tuesday before I started the newly released sequel. Last night, I stayed up until after 2 a.m. reading. Woke up at 7 to keep reading. Told work I'd be late so I could finish. #worthit

[Tara @graceless880]

I started reading Legendborn by @tracydeonn two nights ago. Today, instead of eating or getting anything done, I spent ALL DAY reading. Just finished. And I kinda wanna just go back and read it again. THAT good. But maybe I should eat something first.

[booksomewench on bluesky 💖💜💙 @shadowravyn]

Let me break this down for you, and y'all can go break this down for others.

"Rest in power" is not the woke version of "Rest in peace." It's not just cool, it's not a way to show you really liked someone, it's not something you say when a famous person you really liked dies.

[Tara @graceless880]

Fezzik is not impressed

[Paris Zarcilla @ParisZarcilla]

Here are my gold and silver medalists in the chill Olympics. Hope this tweet finds you horizontal and happy. Love from House Zarcilla

[Leta McCollough Seletzky, JD 🐳 @LaSeletzky]

Sharing this article as a gift.

Jonathan M. Metzl, author of DYING OF WHITENESS:

“You’re seeing a kind of dying-of-Whiteness phenomenon in the covid data that’s very similar to what I saw in my data.”

https://t.co/it5yTDe1LU

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

It’s remarkable how successful the Right has been in planting and propagating this idea of “liberal media bias,” to the point where much of mainstream journalism is constantly trying to disprove this supposed bias and appease those conservative critics.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

We are in the midst of a multi-pronged, multi-level reactionary counter-mobilization that has a judicial arm, a political arm, an intellectual arm, and a paramilitary arm, all flanked by a highly effective media/propaganda machine. And it is rapidly accelerating. 24/

[Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy]

My new essay: Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women

https://t.co/o2ttjSRzH5 #IranRevolution #IranProtests2022

[Jeff Stein @jstein_notus]

In 1989, the poorest half of Americans held roughly 4 percent of the national wealth.

That was much higher than the share it holds today

By 2019, the bottom 50% held just 2%

By contrast, the top 1 percent alone held 34%

[Melissa Giannini @melgiannini]

For #BannedBooksWeek I spoke with several challenged authors and experts to try to figure out why so many beloved books are under fire as of late. Thank you @angiecthomas, @ashleyhopeperez, #hillarychute, @junodawson, @nikkigrimes9, and @WriteinBK https://t.co/vmAD90XgKy

[Tara @graceless880]

Tomorrow's sessions start off with a presentation by Jeanne White-Ginder. I have seen her speak in person and virtually numerous times in the 20+ years I have worked in HIV services. I know her son Ryan's story by heart. And she still always makes me cry.

[Tara @graceless880]

This little data nerd was happy to work an hour late to attend a great session on creating disparities calculators at #NRWC2022

[Tara @graceless880]

"Oh, I have PAWS." 😸

[Tara @graceless880]

It's #EstherDay. I love you.

[Tara @graceless880]

And then I came home and finished reading the 94th book of 2022.

My life is...weird.

But like Audre Lorde said: “I would never have chosen this path, but I am very glad to be who I am, here."

[Tara @graceless880]

In the almost 13 years since she died, I have dreamed about my mom maybe once every 18 months or so. It's always disorienting, especially when dream-me forgets she has died. ...and that is how I woke up, exhausted, this morning.

[Tara @graceless880]

"Are you planning to attend this upcoming webinar next month?" she asked. "And if so, are there days/times that don't work for you."

And that's how this national webinar is going to be scheduled around my vacation and a doctor's appointment. 😳