Virginia Eubanks
Virginia Eubanks is an American political scientist, professor, and author studying technology and social justice. She is an associate professor… more
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I'm gonna report this every month.
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
4/4: Please, if you're able, help keep the public in public media right now.
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It is especially crucial to support rural public media, as it often provides communities with their only local news and provide life-saving weather and emergency alerts.
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It is especially crucial to support rural public media, as it often provides communities with their only local news and provide life-saving weather and emergency alerts.
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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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3/4: In many ways, it's the model I've been trying to live up to ever since. I see lots of quotes if Timothy Snyder'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.
2/4: Watching college students and local community members rise to the occasion, sleeping on studio couches, caravaning down to LA to cover the aftermath firsthand, and getting information out to a community hungry for factual, accurate, humane stories made an indelible impression on me.
1/4: I got my start in public media. I still remember when the Rodney King verdict came down my first year at KZSC. We had a remarkably good public affairs department.
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I feel both joyful & terrified: My book is actually on the @eccobooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social website now! IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH: Love Stories from the Frontlines of America’s Caregiving Crisis will be out Feb 2026 ✨ eeeeek! www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...
In Sickness and in Health
An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting...
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I think I just coined the phrase "tyrannical lifestyle maintenance," and I'm very proud.
I learned it from Mark Rank's great lifecycle research on poverty.... 20 years old now, but absolutely still worth reading. academic.oup.com/book/2883
One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All
Abstract. Despite its enormous wealth, the United States leads the industrialized world in poverty. One Nation, Underprivileged unravels this disturbing pa
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There's a lot of focus on what Medicaid and ACA cuts would mean for hospitals, because hospitals have lobbyists. That doesn't negate what the cuts would mean for people, with about 12 million people projected to become uninsured due to the megabill.
Made up a little song for myself today:
"You are feeling insecure...
Because that's a natural part...
Of the process!"
#AmWriting #EditingKillsEgo #GuideToOpenWaterLifesaving
"You are feeling insecure...
Because that's a natural part...
Of the process!"
#AmWriting #EditingKillsEgo #GuideToOpenWaterLifesaving
Also, read everything @mcgowankat.bsky.social
has written for NPR on caregiving!
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has written for NPR on caregiving!
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Kat McGowan
NPR stories by Kat McGowan
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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.
No matter what I write about, I always end up back at poorhouses.
Why is caregiving so hard in America? Excited to see this new film...
"Caregivers are on their own--and...spend an average of $7,242 out of pocket ea yr. According to a recent DoL report, they also miss out on an av of $43,500 in income due to the demands of adult care." www.npr.org/2025/06/20/n...
"Caregivers are on their own--and...spend an average of $7,242 out of pocket ea yr. According to a recent DoL report, they also miss out on an av of $43,500 in income due to the demands of adult care." www.npr.org/2025/06/20/n...
Why is caregiving so hard in America? The answers emerge in a new film
A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy in the U.S., revealing why those caring for family are often on their own.
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There are going to be Andrew Solomon-level endnotes on this book. Which is crazy, because it's a freaking #memoir.
All of the essays curated by @orionmagazine.bsky.social for mental health awareness month are worth a read! orionmagazine.org/article/hono...
Honoring Mental Health Awareness Month - Orion Magazine
A curated list of 12 stories
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Try Sky Follower Bridge to bring your X/Twitter followers over. www.wikihow.com/Import-Twitt...
"... much in the way my mama would her cigarette butts on the long drive down, the kind of love unafraid of losing, which is the kind of love that now I am not."
"Even then I loved orange groves like I loved the word grove—G-R-O-V-E—loved the way it was spelled, the last bit of the word love snuggled right inside that single-syllable’s opening growl, the kind of love okay with its own first letter pitched out the window..."
A quote that's resonating with me today from the manuscript of A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving:
"Care is both the hardest and the best thing we do as human beings. We should find better ways to share and support it, because it is difficult and because it is beautiful."
"Care is both the hardest and the best thing we do as human beings. We should find better ways to share and support it, because it is difficult and because it is beautiful."
Was hitting the point of diminishing returns enforcing desk discipline for these edits, so grabbed a camp site, took a paddle, swam in the river, slept under the stars. Then a hike and breakfast this morning and I'm back to the desk. Gas $30, campsite $18, food $20. 24 hours and $70 for the win.
I love the two weeks of voluptuous abundance when the roses and peonies first bloom. I can't keep up with the deadheading, and I'm always having to clean up the petals from the five or six arrangements I've got going in the house. And then, like smoke, they are gone 'til next year.
Hi Jenny! Long time. Super excited (read: terrified and elated, in equal measure) about this one. Among the hardest and best things I've ever done. XO
"No officials serious about governing should willingly create such problems for their own state."
Thanks, Stephen! I've been slow on the uptake (see post re: healing, hiding). 🤣