Tara L. Conley

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I reflect on coming of age in NYC’s underground music scene…

my latest: https://open.substack.com/pub/taralconley/p/last-december?r=9dgzr&utm_medium=ios

Last December

Coming of age in New York City's early 2000s underground music scene.

United Takes of Tara

ATTENTION humanities scholars + writers!

i’m on the editorial board for the inaugural issue of rust belt studies.

we invite contributions on defining the region and identifying key concerns using humanities methods.

POC/LGBTQ perspectives are especially welcome!

Please share with your networks. https://www.rustbeltstudies.org

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the moment these two finally got on the same page and became each other’s best thing ❤️ #startrek #ds9
soooo, wapost has me dying at 80 😵‍💫🥴
incredible reporting from the washington post, which looked at 3 counties, including ohio’s ashtabula county (where i used to live as a kid). the investigation showed how lawmaking decisions from years past shaves years off ohians’/americans lives. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/republican-politics-south-midwest-life-expectancy/
Republican state policies on cigarettes, seat belts shorten life spans

Along Lake Erie, three states show how Republican lawmakers’ decisions over decades on cigarettes and seat belts are shortening life spans.

The Washington Post

Going to vote now.

Ohioans, let’s do this! Vote YES ON ISSUE 1. Do NOT let the GOP undermine our state constitution and disenfranchise voters.

Also, YES ON ISSUE 2 👍🏽

This two-part episode originally aired in 1995 on January 2nd and 9th, respectively.

As 2024 approaches, I can’t help but think about how DS9 writers and producers, facing the end of the twentieth century, eerily foresaw what the world as we know it would become.

It’s worthy of study, in my opinion.

Long live #StarTrek 🖖🏾

Society would eventually learn from its mistakes, however, and rebuild, leading to a more egalitarian and prosperous 24th century.
In this fictional timeline, the year 2024 saw an uprising in the US like no other. The country’s most vulnerable would lead a revolution in the global center of technological development at a time when the US government cut off all communications, while bombing and shooting at its own people.