Sonja Sharp

Writer of note(s). Reporter of fact. Ex 🗽🔪🐀, now 🕵🏻‍♀️✍🏼 @latimes. 🪬♿! 📩 me ur tips, ur rumors, ur huddled mischief yearning to breathe free

[Sonja Sharp @sic_sonja]

'Journalism is style, ideas, problems...A reporter reports facts. A reporter's primary goal is not to lie.' #Dovlatov

[L.A. Times Guild 🦅 @latguild]

After just one day of organizing, about 90% of our union walked out today in protest of management's devastating layoffs proposal and multiple unfair labor practices.

We are so thankful for the solidarity shown to us during this historic work stoppage. ✊

📸 @jaylclendenin

[Sonja Sharp @sic_sonja]

@mariana_dale it's ok, WaPo just wrote about James yesterday, a very timely reup!!

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

A lot of people decided they wanted to stake their reputation on denying this story without doing any of the work necessary to gather the evidence to support their conclusions.

[Abby Stein - 𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤂𐤉𐤋 𐤇𐤅𐤄 𐤔𐤈𐤉𐤉𐤍 @AbbyChavaStein]

Something interesting(?) seems to be a trend:

So many Palestinian friends, every Palestinian I know that I am speaking with, are checking in. Asking how my family/myself is. Condemning Hamas' atrocities.

The only ones "defending" it seem to be "friends" in Western countries 👀

[katie honan @katie_honan]

I always wonder -- what "urgent action" will be needed, and if you live in a basement apartment, what are you supposed to do? Is the assumption that everybody has another place to stay until Saturday?

[Emyle Watkins ♿️ @EmyleWatkins]

We need to stop depicting mobility aids as a sign/symbol of inability to be or do something. My mobility aids aren't a sign I'm incapable of doing a job or living a full life. They give me the opportunity to do my job, to live a full life.

[Amanda ‘science fan girl’ Morris (she/her) 🤟🏻🌵 @AmandaMoMorris]

For years, researchers say it was difficult to study health inequities that people with disabilities experience, because the way this population was classified by the NIH limited access to funding.

Now, that's changed:
https://t.co/sjs2yQywcV

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

Fahrenheit 451 was never my favorite Bradbury/dystopian fiction because it felt a little too blunt, too far-fetched in its metaphor— the state deploying high-tech 'firemen' to burn books to maintain its censorship regime? A bit on the nose.

Currently reevaluating that assessment

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

White vegans use the exact same tactics that white evangelicals use to determine the value of the life of others and enact racism with the cover of superiority.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

[Lia Eustachewich @liaeustach]

RIP CJ. One of the best in the field. You taught me so much, but mostly, to take care of the newbies. See ya on the next one. https://t.co/iaPt8CqpUn

[James Queally @JamesQueallyLAT]

It's time to finish the contract, @drpatrick

Your family is committed to the L.A. Times.

So is mine.

And my family's growing.

[Sarah Parvini (سارا) @sarahparvini]

These videos about being a LAT parent were shot when I got back from mat leave. I was so busy juggling new roles that I couldn’t chime in. I will here: Our new contract isn’t about me. It’s about my kid + my ability to provide for her amid inflation + the rising cost of living ✊🏽

[Sonja Sharp @sic_sonja]

“Moms of sick, disabled,or neurodivergent kids all have increased stress levels that make them more prone to mom rage,” Dubin observes." Yea, no. I was a sick &♿️ kid. Now I'm a sick & ♿️mom. "Mom Rage" is not a stress response to ♿️, it's an expression of hatred, shame & disgust

[Sonja Sharp @sic_sonja]

you know it's a Jewish holiday in Los Angeles when TJ sells out of flowers by 9am

[Jessica Taylor-Bearman @jayletay]

So I was in a restaurant when some random stranger came up to me, put her hand on my wheelchair and then said “go on then, tell me why you’re in the wheelchair.”

Like why oh why would you expect me to tell someone my PRIVATE medical history because I’m in a wheelchair? (1/2)

[Sonja Sharp @sic_sonja]

@NoahHurowitz bad news: i just talked to a helicopter pilot and they're not letting them land

[Sonja Sharp @sic_sonja]

when people give me shit about masking — a not infrequent occurrence — I tell them I've got little kids and am a walking reservoir for hand foot and mouth

[Dalia Hasan MD MSc @DaliaHasanMD]

Today, an electrician gladly donned the N95 mask I offered, only to later reveal that homeowners drove him to unmask!

The absurdity of protective gear becoming a faux pas is baffling.
Kudos to the mask-wearing champions who remain undeterred.
I see you, I’m with you.

[Sonja Sharp @sic_sonja]

@yumcoconutmilk I worked regularly for years at a coffee shop with two toilets. Truly perfect