Sara K. Day

Sara K. Day

@sarakday.bsky.social

Editor and project manager, cross stitcher, chronic re-reader and re-watcher, ex-academic (she/her)

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Sara K. Day
@sarakday.bsky.social

The rural hospital where my kid was born shut down labor and delivery years ago. It is about an hour drive in any direction to find another one. In a part of the country with high unplanned pregnancy and maternal mortality rates.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social

Across the country, hospitals under financial strain are shuttering their delivery units, putting expectant mothers at greater risk. As Trump’s cuts to Medicaid take effect, these “maternity care deserts” will only grow. newrepublic.com/article/2166...

newrepublic.comThe Increasingly Long Drive to Give Birth in Rural AmericaAcross the country, hospitals under financial strain are shuttering their delivery units, putting expectant mothers at greater risk. As Trump’s cuts to Medicaid take effect, these “maternity care dese...
Sara K. Day
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When my kid was born, I was talking to my nana about how my husband and I split up care duties, and she said, "Men today are so lucky to get to spend that kind of time with their children."

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

Sara K. Day
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This is something I will always miss about living in Texas. Like, it is the #2 thing I miss after family and friends.

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In those same weeks, a few friends got harrassed for being brown after 9/11. They were Catholic and South Asian. An anti-war protest marched through our campus. Kids yelled at and mocked the protestors. A guy in my history class went on an angry rant about blowing the entire Middle East off the map.

Sara K. Day
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A year later, I was teaching in a small Catholic school in Texas. The kids came that day dressed in red, white, and blue, and we formed an American flag (I think. Maybe it was just USA. Maybe it was a heart.) on the field where they had recess.

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We were in Baltimore, and tons of my fellow students were New Yorkers. So many of them were desperately making or waiting for phone calls. All of their doors on my hall were open, but it was so quiet, just the sound of the news repeating as I went from one room to the next.

Sara K. Day
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And it was so quiet outside. The weather was perfect-- so many people will mention this that it feels redundant, but it was so strange to be moving through this gorgeous, silent day. A couple of girls decided to sunbathe on their dorm lawn. People talked about this in awe and anger for weeks.

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I don't remember what we talked about in class that day. Some other, older American disaster. By the time class was over, the towers had fallen; our professor had not hauled in a TV, for which I have always been grateful.

Sara K. Day
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Classes were cancelled. The college put TVs out in common areas, but most folks huddled in their dorm rooms. I was an RA, so I got called to an emergency meeting and then spent the next few hours going door to door on my hall, checking on residents.

Sara K. Day
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A few minutes later we ran into someone we knew from the paper, who was on her way to Crisis Management (again, not a joke) and who told us about the second plane hitting. She had done a summer internship in that tower.

Sara K. Day
@sarakday.bsky.social

Also, watch My Old Ass if you haven't. It is such a pleasant surprise.

Defector@defector.com

Summer may be ending, but we'll always have 'Sterling Point' defector.com/summer-may-b...

defector.comSummer May Be Ending, But We’ll Always Have ‘Sterling Point’ | Defector“I’m coming to the cottage,” Ilya Rozanov growled, and Canada has never been the same—at least the American film and TV industry’s depiction of it. The final episode of the first season of Heated Riva...
Sara K. Day
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Five artists I've seen at least twice Old 97s Fiona Apple Weird Al Toad the Wet Sprocket Ben Folds

Beth@bethp.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with five artists you’ve seen at least twice: Ministry Metallica Bad Religion Judas Priest Jane’s Addiction

Sara K. Day
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The audience seems to have shrunk between the congressional candidates and the gubernatorial candidates. Wondering if the Marxists have all dipped or . . . ?

Sara K. Day
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I want to be friends with the man next to me who keeps snorting. Crank says that we should follow the rule of law. My new friend: "Does that apply to the president?"

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Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social

CO GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx is soliciting unlimited contributions, appearing to openly defy campaign finance law Campaign finance attorneys call Marx's plan unprecedented and "patently illegal" Marx's campaign won't say where the money is going www.9news.com/article/news...

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Sara K. Day
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This has evolved over our marriage but now the answer is all the spec fic is in the den, all the realistic fic is in the living room, and all the nonfic is in the office. Alphabetized because I could not handle my husband's vibes-based system of "stuff I like the most at my eye level."

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So glad I made it to see Hadestown before it left movie theaters. That was as close as a filmed stage musical has made me feel to actually being in the room with the performers.

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Jess Calarco
@jessicacalarco.com

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Sara K. Day
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My 11yo has taken to watching old episodes of Jeopardy!, which is objectively adorable in its own right, and I am quickly realizing how many of these questions are only considered trivia because we learned the answers in fifth grade.

Sara K. Day
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That mural was almost 30 years old, or absolutely ancient in Dallas terms. A city that never keeps anything.

Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social

Well. you can't say FIFA doesn't know how to Dallas properly. They came to town and immediately destroyed a beloved downtown mural painted in 1999 by a revered artist. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

dallasnews.comWilonsky: FIFA drowns Dallas’ giant, beloved whale mural beneath blue paintThe artist Wyland gifted his giant mural of six lifesized humpback whales to Dallas in 1999, but this week it was drowned beneath blue paint by FIFA.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall
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I wrote this essay last fall for print only & I'm republishing it with their permission bc we're talking about didactism in kidlit right now and I have HAD thoughts about the connection between instructive lit and book banning. I'd be honored if you read it. www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2026/5/...

prettyokmaggie.comWho's Afraid of Children's Books? — Pretty Ok MaggieThis essay was written for the print only periodical, THE APPROACH, in Fall of 2025 and has been republished here with their permission.