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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 03/08/2026

And another one…😁 I’m excited to announce that DRY BONES is an official selection at the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival! See you at Atlas Shaker Square on 9/18! ✨ Get tickets here: www.gcuff.org/festivalsche... (scroll down the schedule to find the film, then click order tickets)

Still image from my documentary film DRY BONES featuring Ike Maxwell smoking a cigarette and sitting on the porch across from me.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 05/07/2026

I had the honor and privilege of singing the National Anthem yesterday. I sang for the family of a fallen soldier, for my brother (Air Force), and for my late father (Army)—may he continue to rest easy. Thank you for your service.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 03/07/2026

i’ve been asked to sing the national anthem tomorrow, and being that my south node placement is in aquarius, i’m terrified and would rather stay in the house, while my north node, which is in leo is like BITCH, THIS IS OUR MOMENT TO SHINE, YOU BETTER DO IT.

image of a cute dog side by side, on the left is the dog in a hoodie (aquarius) on the right is a dog making a stand face (leo)

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 27/06/2026

um, so… i’m hate-watching melania and i almost just lost my ability to breathe: Why did i just see the same motion graphic in MY FILM ($30k budget) used in Melanie, which had a $40million budget?!

picture of my documentary DRY BONES with a film scrolling motion graphic set against archival footage of JFK in Dayton Ohio

picture of the doc MELANIA with same film scrolling motion graphic set against Melania and Donald Trump walking together on screen.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 19/06/2026

View more photos on our Instagram page www.instagram.com/drybonesfilm...

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 19/06/2026

happy juneteenth, especially to my folks in Elyria Ohio. more scenes from this week’s community screening if you’re interested in bringing my film DRY BONES to your community, hit me up! drybonesfilm.com/contact

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 15/06/2026

tangential: yall should thank your lucky stars black women collectively haven’t said “fuck it all” ….. yet.

obama sitting with trump laughing. michelle obama is noticeably absent.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 26/04/2026

wow, was literally just over there. good grief that’s fast.

crowd outside of the gates of buckingham palace waiting for the changing of the guard

crowd standing outside of buckingham palace waiting for the changing of the guard

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 14/04/2026

As I get ready to head across the pond for the international debut of Dry Bones Film, please consider donating to Ike Maxwell’s GoFundMe to help raise funds for his funeral, which will take place this Saturday, 4/18 in Elyria, Ohio. Donate here 👉🏽 gofund.me/6027b36f4

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 13/04/2026

especially considering the original image was just a flying dude 😬😵‍💫

screenshot of nick adams tweet from 2/4/26 depicting an AI generated image of trump as a religious figure

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 09/04/2026

“Matsoukas, whose resume includes ‘Queen & Slim,’ ‘Insecure’ and several key collaborations with Beyoncé, will direct and produce the film adaptation of Butler’s 1993 dystopian novel.“ variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Cover of Octavia Butlers’s Parable of the Sower and a black and white portrait of Melina Matsoukas

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 08/04/2026

agreed 👍🏽 bsky.app/profile/tara...

screenshot of my post from december 18, 2024 showing an article written in the black panther newspaper with the title that reads: “eliminate the presidency”

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 02/04/2026

*of course* there are two aquarians on the artemis. they are not trying come back LOL 😭

portrait of the Artemis crew members with the title “fixed sign astronauts” and the description reads: “Artemis crew all fixed signs. Scorpio, Taurus and two Aquarius. I think everyone is in charged [sic]”

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 01/04/2026

we have lift off. god speed space travelers 🖖🏽

screenshot of artemis II launch on CNN 6:35pm EST

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 21/03/2026

I'm honored to be giving the Curtis Wilson Lecture at Cleveland State University this week. I'll be presenting my research--inspired by my film: "I’ve Been Bound By It: Representing Capitalist Enclosures in the Black Rust Belt" artsandsciences.csuohio.edu/africanastud...

The Department of Africana
Studies Presents:

Dr. Tara Conley, Assistant Professor
School of Media and Journalism
Kent State University

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 2:00 - 3:15 PM, Berkman Hall, Room 136

Sankofa Screening and Discussion for Dry Bones, a film about
"Dynamite Ike" Maxwell, a legendary Black high school football player from Elyria, Ohio, whose life dramatically changed course after his younger brother was fatally shot by a police officer in 1975. The film will be followed by discussion moderated by Dr. Adrienne Gosselin, Associate Professor in English and Africana Studies.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 4:30 - 5:30PM, Berkman Hall, Room 136
"I've Been Bound By It: Representing Capitalist Enclosures in
the Black Rust Belt"
Reception to follow in the Howard A. Mims American Cultural
Center, BH 137
"
CSU
College of Arts and Sciences

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 17/03/2026

seems apropos given the apparent meteor strike in northeast ohio. aliens are more than welcome to come scoop me up in cleveland 😩

screenshot of Star Trek’s DS9. the caption reads: “You mean your people are going to invade Cleveland?”

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 17/03/2026

“could be” still no confirmed reports of anything hitting the ground 🤦🏽‍♀️ www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03...

headline:

Meteor could be cause of boom felt across Northeast Ohio, weather service says

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 09/03/2026

“The last time I had a good night's sleep was during the Obama administration. I didn't vote for the man and I have plenty of criticisms of his foreign policy but at least I could sleep. His presidency wasn't perfect but I could still sleep knowing it wasn't hopeless.” www.reddit.com/r/collapse/s...

Screenshot of reddit post. Quoted excerpt reads: “The last time I had a good night's sleep was during the Obama administration. I didn't vote for the man and I have plenty of criticisms of his foreign policy but at least I could sleep... his presidency wasn't perfect but I could still sleep knowing it wasn't hopeless.”

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 06/03/2026

Saturn entering aries is showing no mercy. i am so tired.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 05/03/2026

brought to you by cleveland’s own kid cudi (aka scott ramon seguro mescudi)

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 05/03/2026

i live in a blue dot in a red state where most people walk around like zombies. this is me everyday driving to work. (so yeah, i like my little dusty online echo chambers very much)

straight-faced irobot looking directly at camera while driving with the text that reads: when i ride through a neighborhood that got one too many american flags…

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 04/03/2026

offloading our thinking, production, and quality control to AI systems is a CHOICE. AI kills and I’m being forced to adapt to my own demise 😩

Screenshot of Veep season two, episode three in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus turns from a crowd, smiles to her team and says, "What the fuck?" The episode aired in April 2013 and became the subject of memes as early as May 2016 as a way of presenting a nervous reaction to something.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 25/02/2026

now do thyroid eye disease bsky.app/profile/tara...

screenshot i posted two months ago replying to a ProPublica article:

“also confusing:
thyroid eye disease is linked to both COVID
*and* the vaccine. apparently it triggers an autoimmune response.
how do i know this? be a family remember is currently suffering from it and their doctor emphatically said its be of COVID.”

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 22/02/2026

yall did NOT prepare me for episode 5 “Series Acclimation Mil” of starfleet academy. i wept 😩

sam looking at captain benjamin sisko’s uniform in a virtual museum

sam looking at a screen on “the fate of benjamin sisko emissary of the prophets”

jake sisko standing tall in a blue and gold suit all grown up 🥲

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 22/02/2026

no cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist.

a picture of garak from star trek’s ds9 with the caption that reads: “look. all im saying is garak would have had this epstein list taken care of by now.”

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 20/02/2026

Support for Christian Nationalism (Adherents and Sympathizers), by State. Source: PRRI American Values Atlas, Feb. 28-Dec. 8, 2025 prri.org/research/map...

Figure 11. Support for Christian Nationalism (Adherents and Sympathizers), by State.

Figure 12 shows that three states have majorities of white, non-Hispanic residents who support Christian nationalism: Arkansas (59%), Mississippi (54%), and West Virginia (53%). Additionally, nearly half of white residents in Louisiana (49%), Oklahoma (49%), and Missouri (45%) also qualify as Christian nationalism Adherents or Sympathizers.

Source: PRRI American Values Atlas, Feb. 28-Dec. 8, 2025

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 19/02/2026

saturn and neptune is entering aries at 0°. prepare for bat shit bananas breaking news

meme of a killer whale swimming towards a small sea lion. above the wale it reads “saturn and time conjunction at 0°” below the sea lion it reads: “society.”

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 18/02/2026

via Oberlin Heritage Center: Today 2/18, we celebrate Toni Morrison Day on what would have been her 95th birthday! A statewide kickoff for this year of celebration will be held today at 5pm. Join virtually for free by registering for the livestream: www.eventbrite.com/e/beloved-oh...

Photo: Toni Morrison at the dedication of the Bench by the Road in Oberlin in 2009.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 13/02/2026

then this…HELP😭😭😭😭😭

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 13/02/2026

this is my worse nightmare. screwing up a song, then laughing uncontrollably at the podium…DURING MY ANCESTOR’S FUNERAL..i love us 😭

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 10/02/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out to support my film’s community screening at the legendary Karamu House in cleveland, ohio this past weekend. big shout out to the Greater Cleveland Film Commission for making this special event possible. 📸 IG @photosbybeca216 www.instagram.com/p/DUlDGmmDkI...

me on stage at the dry bones film screening in cleveland wearing a black dress with a rose colored jacket

darlene sanders (the subject of my film) on stage at the dry bones film screening in cleveland wearing a black pant suit and a red head wrap

darlene, me, and lowell perry from the cleveland film commission on stage at the dry bones film screening in cleveland, ohio.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 07/02/2026

me and my momma tonight at my screening. life—right now at this moment, is good.

me and mommy at the karamu house in cleveland ohio

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 06/02/2026

today is screening day at the legendary karamu house in cleveland, ohio! i’m excited to share my film DRY BONES with the broader northeast ohio community. wish us luck! 🫶🏾

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 01/02/2026

fight the power ✊🏽 happy bday to my revolutionary twins langston hughes and rick james. and happy black history month.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 01/02/2026

here also is my cashapp ($taralconley) and venmo (@Tara-Conley), in case you’d like to buy me a coffee or a facial 😊 in my 45th year, we will win and look good and be well caffeinated while doing so.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 27/01/2026

“Long before ‘CRT’ became the favored rhetorical weapon used to silence objective critiques […] Derrick Bell was telling a quieter, sharper story: progress arrives, recedes, and leaves a bill someone else must pay.” Read the full story at www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/01/26/d...

cover photo: a black and white portrait of derrick bell wearing a suit. the title “derrick bell: the prophet of racial realism” appears on the lower left corner of the photo.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 25/01/2026

ICE is the perfect vessel for evil, and there’s a bunch of cosplaying call of duty larps either too stupid to see this mechanism at work, or worse, they recognize ICE as a mechanism to play out their killing fantasies in the physical world

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 21/01/2026

i just have this concern that a hired photographer will show me their interpretation of a “cute” photo they took of me looking like who done did it and got away

a cute little monkey smiling with hair sticking out

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 21/01/2026

i need a photographer for an event, but i don’t trust anyone else to take pictures of me, but me. not sure how to reconcile this conundrum.

usha vance looking worn and torn holding a half empty glass of champagne.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 21/01/2026

“I simply cannot comprehend how people in the US are just going about their days as if this isn’t going on.” response in r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/s...

< r/Military

Trump Declares 'There Can Be No Going Back' as D...
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through, to other countries as well. This will give China and Russia so much freedom to do whatever they want as well. I simply cannot comprehend how people in the U.S. are just going about their days as if this isn't going on.
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Flammablegelatin • 9h
Retired USAF

The problem is complex. One, many of those 2A supporters also support Trump. They like what he's doing. If this were Obama or Joe Biden, there would have been mass violence by now.

Second, the US is massive. Sure, we see things going on elsewhere in the news, but many people view these things as so far away that they'll never affect them. Or they just don't keep up with the news and remain completely ignorant to it.

Third, no one wants to be the one to make the first move. Unless you have massive support behind you, you'll just end up being a martyr. Or worse, just killed and deemed a domestic terrorist.

Fourth, despite the US being the richest country in the world, the majority of its citizens are living in poverty or near-poverty conditions. They can't afford to do something like a general strike or anything like that, as it would cost them their homes, their jobs, etc.
Essentially, nothing is going to happen in the US until it gets so bad that everyone is PERSONALLY affected.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 12/01/2026

just this weekend folks were out protesting in ohio suburbs. i was actually surprised. but yeah, people are (still) outside…in the cold no less.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 10/01/2026

at the cavs v twovles game watching jump ball like the world isn’t crumbling around us. everything is bizarre.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 06/01/2026

Now, let me tell you how special this moment is. The history of the Karamu House is rich. karamuhouse.org/history/ Notables include: Langston Hughes (my birthday twin), Zora Neale Hurston (my spirit guide), Lorraine Hansberry, Ruby Dee (auntie); Robert Guillaume, to name a few..

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 06/01/2026

Almost a year ago to the date I released the official trailer to my film, DRY BONES (see below). Today, I’m thrilled to announce that DRY BONES will be screened at the legendary Karamu House in Cleveland Ohio on 2/6. You can RSVP here (sorry, FB link): www.facebook.com/share/1ZUpXE...

Official flyer for the screening hosted by the Greater Cleveland Film Commission.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 05/01/2026

Octavia Butler. Parable of the Sower (1993) 10 ________

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When apparent stability disintegrates,
As it must
God is Change-
People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed.
When no influence is strong enough To unify people
They divide.
They struggle,
One against one,
Group against group, For survival, position, power.
They remember old hates and generate new ones, They create chaos and nurture it.
They kill and kill and kill,
Until they are exhausted and destroyed, Until they are conquered by outside forces, Or until one of them becomes A leader
Most will follow, Or a tyrant Most fear.
EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 05/01/2026

Octavia Butler. Parable of the Sower (1993) 2026 _________

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Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.
EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

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