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Rachel E. Davis
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middle Tennessee State University | CITAP Affiliate | Studying transactional sex, social media, & gendered violence | she/her
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My flight got delayed, and then I got to see the northern lights from a plane with six total passengers 🥹💃🏻✨✈️🌌
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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October Reading Wrap-Up! Started a lot of books this month, didn’t finish a lot. Follow me on Fable:
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Books I read in October (with rating out of 5): Katabasis (4) Will There Ever Be Another You (4) The Emperor of Gladness (no rating) The Monsters We Make (4)
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Meme of Pam from the office holding two pictures (The Life of Pablo album cover and The Life of a Showgirl cover) saying “corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.” Second panel shows her telling the camera “They’re the same picture.”
October 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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September reading wrap-up. 📚 Follow me on fable at
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List of books I read in September along with my rating out of 5. The Compound (4) Sky Daddy (5) Out There (4) If You Don’t Like This I’ll Die (3) Bring the House Down (4) Consider Yourself Kissed (4) Mendell Station (4) Loved One (4)
September 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Lorde blessed 🙌🩻
Photo of Lorde flipping her hair back on stage
September 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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My sister’s take as someone who lives in a small town about 45 minutes away and had to visit that school for games. (Emoji over her name for privacy)
Sister: As a former cheer coach, north middle quite literally was the worst school I've ever dealt with middle or high so I am not surprised at all by the behavior of car rider line parents and would even go so far as to say serves them right Me: Yeah the person who shared this said at a certain point the parents must WANT this because it makes them feel like busy soccer moms Sister: Like I cannot reiterate this enough, from admin, sro, down to parents never seen a school be just that rude, uppity, disrespectful, tacky, and just suck lol so yes I would say that assessment fits my experience
September 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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August reading wrap-up. 📚 Follow me on Fable at
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Book covers along with rating out of 5. Nothing More of This Land (4) In the Distance (4) A Manual for Cleaning Women (4) Make Your Way Home (4) The Mobius Book (4) When Crack was King (4) Awake in the Floating City (4) The Tell (4) The Antidote (3)
August 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Semesterly selfie, a few days early because I’m procrastinating on writing! 🤓
August 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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July reading wrap up! Follow me on fable:
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List of books I read in July along with ratings out of 5: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (4) Audition by Katie Kitamura (3) Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson (4) Tilt by Emma Pattee (4) The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing (4) Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (5) Unworld by Jayson Greene (3)
July 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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🎶 We’ll be the ones to purify our fathers’ sins. Them old ideas are buried here. Amen. 🎶
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Stage screen reads “never ask permission for something that already belongs to you” Beyoncé gliding above the stage in a giant neon horseshoe Beyoncé posing in front of a golden horse Beyoncé smiling in front of a giant Statue of Liberty wearing a bandana as a mask
July 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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June reading wrap-up. Follow me on Fable at
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Collage of books I read in June:l along with ratings out of 5: We Do Not Part 4 Disposable 4 Sleep 5 Highway Thirteen 4 Vanishing World 5 Big Dumb Eyes 3 How to Eat Well for Adults with ADHD 4 The Book of Records 4 Hungerstone 3 You Didn’t Hear this from Me 4 When Religion Hurts You 4
June 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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“We are free, on the internet, to sexually valorize anything and anyone; we are free to sexualize ourselves for any audience; we are not and never will be free from the hypersexuality of an online world that is built around images and videos and that relentlessly turns individuals into commodities.”
June 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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May reading wrap-up 📚
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List of books I read in May (rating out of 5 in parentheses): White Trash (4), Atavists (4), Life’s Short Talk Fast (4), The House of my Mother (4), Three Days in June (4), Building a Second Brain (4), Sunrise on the Reaping (4), Catalina (4), Twist (4), Care and Feeding (4), The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (4)
May 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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May 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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May 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Had a couple of hungry visitors this afternoon. 🌱🦌
Adult deer with velvet antlers looking ahead with leaves in his mouth Adult deer with velvet antlers standing near the camera Adult deer with velvet antlers looking up with leaves in his mouth, the harbor visible in the background Juvenile deer with buttons on his head
May 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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May 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I had no internet-poisoned thoughts while taking in this sunrise. 🌄 🌅
May 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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May 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Grid-worthy sunrise/selfie combo?! In the words of Tina Knowles, never waste good light. 🌅🌄
May 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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May 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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May 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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I was absolutely surrounded by deer today!
Deer right outside my cottage window A mother and fawn grazing nearby A mother and fawn walking together along the bluff framed by a tree with the water along the horizon
May 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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May 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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“Grid-worthy sunrise” is a thought I had this morning, in case you were wondering how internet-poisoned my brain is. 🤪🌅
Bench made of reclaimed wood on a lichen-covered bluff overlooking a dock and a beautiful sunrise over the water Pink and blue sunrise reflecting on the water Boat and dock in the foreground with the sunrise over the mountains on the horizon Selfie of me on the bluff
May 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM