Writing about violence and care. Bylines @guardian, @NYTmag, &etc. On IG (instagram.com/virginiaeeuban…) and virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social now.
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✨ AGTOWL receives a Kirkus Star! ✨
A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving received a starred review from Kirkus! Out August 11, the memoir is the hardest & best thing I’ve ever made, so the honor touches me deeply.
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✨ AGTOWL receives a Kirkus Star! ✨
A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving received a starred review from Kirkus! Out August 11, the memoir is the hardest & best thing I’ve ever made, so the honor touches me deeply.
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Thanks to the legions of literary caregivers who help get this book into the world: @fsgbooks @GoldinAgency
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COVER REVEAL! 🌊 A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING is a spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Available on Aug 11, 2026. bit.ly/4hAFUJb @fsgbooks
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1/4: I got my start in public media. I still remember when the Rodney King verdict came down my first year @kzsc. We had a remarkably good public affairs department.
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3/4: It's the model I've tried to live up to ever since. I see lots of quotes of @TimothySnyder'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.
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4/4: It is esp crucial to support rural stations, as they often provide communities with their only local news and life-saving weather and emergency alerts (mine are @ncpr and @KASUradio). ruralpublic.org/
Please, if you're able, help now. adoptastation.org/
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Excited to see this new film...
"Caregivers are on their own--and...spend an average of $7,242 out of pocket each year. According to a recent DoL report, they also miss out on an average of $43,500 in income due to the demands of adult care."
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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.
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I'm at the stage of editing this draft where I have to think deeply about things like: Is it Jell-o? Jell-O? JELL-O? #amwriting
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Virginia Eubanks retweeted
3 May 2025
Vous connaissiez Virginia Eubanks @PopTechWorks pour son enquête sur les technologies de l'État social américain. On en discute sur @AOC_media, avec l’actualité américaine et un témoignage sur son expérience de proche aidante et sur comment le soin pourrait être réinventé.
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Finally made the move to Instagram. Follow me over there if you'd like to know more about new writing and adventures in wilderness survival. instagram.com/virginiaeeuban…
ALT An Instagram post featuring a middle aged white man sipping tea in a bright orange tent and smiling at the camera, which reads "Have been hiding, working on healing, finishing a manuscript (out in 2026!), and loving up my platform camper. Slowly emerging from the cave."
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Virginia Eubanks retweeted
7 Feb 2025
I’m so excited about OUR RIGHT TO CARE conference in April—at @pennlaw & Crossroads Women’s Center. Honored to co-organize and co-keynote with so many amazing activists, scholars & caregivers.
7 Feb 2025
OUR RIGHT TO CARE conference brings together academics, unpaid & paid caregivers and those who depend on care, to elevate caregiving and establish our right to the care we choose when we need it. ▶️For more info & to register: ourrighttocare.net
ALT International Conference April 10 & 11, 2025: Our Right to Care, family caregivers and people who depend on their care vs the care industry. Keynote Speakers Selma James and Prof. Dorothy Roberts. Special Guest US Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI). University of Pennsylvania & Crossroads Women’s Center, Philadelphia PA. www.ourrighttocare.net
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Virginia Eubanks retweeted
7 Jan 2025
As Meta announces the end to professional fact-checking, please -please- accept finally that social media is not a viable way to get factual information. It was a noble experiment. It failed. Traditional journalism, while imperfect, is the way. Please pay a little bit and use it.
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Putting together my Political Storytelling syllabus and trying to find an example of a longform journalism story that has particularly excellent pacing. Like, just-can't-put-it-down pacing. Any ideas?
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3) For "point of view": Joan Didion, “Insider Baseball,” The New York Review of Books, October 27, 1988. nybooks.com/articles/1988/10…
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