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Dr. Tara L. Conley

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · Feb 1

Today is my birthday.

My only wish is for you to repost and share *everywhere* the official trailer of my feature length documentary film DRY BONES.

drybonesfilm.com

Thank you 🫶🏾

youtu.be/v4uNleUXvu0?...

DRY BONES Trailer 2025

YouTube video by MEDIA MAKE CHANGE

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 3m

love wins 😭

Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 5m

struggled to be any kind of productive today since hearing of d’angelo’s passing. so many memories attached to his music. i wasn’t ready to go back to those memories today.

the universe had other plans.

Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 2h

word ✊🏽

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bobby @bobbeigh.is.tall.fyi · 2h

Between this and a recent St. Ignatius High School politely and piously telling LoTT to shut the fuck up with spreading misinformation —

Please know that there’s still fight left in Northeast Ohio.
And there’s a lot of fight to come.

Push back aplenty.

cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 7h

🔗: https://l.cleveland.com/jt4ogt

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport won’t show Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem's controversial new video blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown due to its partisan nature.

📸s: cleveland.com & AP

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 2h

it definitely doesn’t feel right at all :(

Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 3h

your smile was like your chord changes: uplifting and life giving.

thank you for the joy you gave us.

📸 me

from 2015

d’angelo on the apollo stage in harlem new york, reaching out to the crowd smiling and singing into the microphone.

photo: tara l conley

Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 4h

blessed i got to witness your brilliance on the apollo stage. we sure went to church that night.
rest easy, brother.

(from 2015)

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 5h

the wrong people are checking out 😢

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 5h

oh my god.
rest in peace.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5h

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 20h

a woman says i would like to see it

ALT: a woman says i would like to see it

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 20h

if this political poster is any indication that the universe is trolling us, the next iteration of the resistance will be the ho movement

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 21h

LMAOO

it's still free range @shebjammin.blacksky.app · 22h

Decided to try a style I've been wanting to try for a while on my hair today. Made it 3/4 of the way through before looking in the mirror and realizing ima look like Frederick Douglass tomorrow when this shit dries. My life is a joke

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

Portland

Mike @mike.perham.net · 1d

One thing I haven’t seen reported about the ICE building protest: they have 10-20 costumes on a rack that anyone is free to use. Put it on, inflate it and protest!

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 22h

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 1d

between this and the cbs news takeover, i hope someone is working on an oral history of media professionals navigating editorial decisions across this bizarre legacy media landscape.

Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Lot to unpack.
But my best guess is you have a design staff that was very much dead set against this cover. They can't control that decision, but they can control the photography.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 1d

lmaoo george said 😭

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

most kids would be better taught Shakespeare by a few viewings of Star Trek: The Next Generation than the way his work is traditionally taught

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.
I'm a Black Native writer, archivist and CRT educator! Well i was until my whole field was demonized.
Settlers can tip me/ support my work and learn our real history here:

ko-fi.com/sundownohio

Support Greetings From Sundown Ohio

ko-fi.com

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d

This is true, and…

It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job.

Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 1d

if you accept the scientific explanation of *dark matter, then accept that our ancestors are out here begging us to pay attention.

argue with your mama.

*damn autocorrect

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 1d

yes!

over the summer, i wrote a paper using the concept of black weird, which undermines notions of western white progress. i didn’t realize until now how much i needed this perspective to make sense of the moment. watching portland revealed this for me.

Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 1d

also, happy indigenous peoples day 😊

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 1d

for me, it’s not so much about history repeating or rhyming that informs how i move forward, i think it’s more so about the people that came before leaving us clues and guidance for how to proceed when confronted with terror and oppression.

Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 1d

folks oughta be tapping more into weird and absurdist ways of doing and knowing, especially if inherited from our communities and ancestors that have been here and done this before.

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