Monica Ponder, PhD
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Monica Ponder, PhD
@monicalponder.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of #HealthCommunication & Culture @HowardU| storyteller| epidemiologist | witness | #GAPeach 🍑 | very Black ✊🏾| she/her|views my own 🐘🕉
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As I mentioned elsewhere, I go to bed tonight much clearer of the distinctions between food bank, food pantries, and food drives.

My thanks to the folks who have been helpful. And to the others, I will try to love you little shits anyway.

Also, locking down replies from now on because Good Lord.
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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What’s it like sharing a tiny space with a giant pet? Amit Elkayam’s photo series “Big Dog in a Big City” captures the reality, and the intimacy, of living in New York with a Great Dane.

See more: nyer.cm/9MWxWXw
September 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.
December 31, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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If you find yourself wondering if a new book will solve all your problems today, the answer is yes
November 18, 2024 at 9:04 AM