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Rachel M. Beard
@rachelmbeard.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 recovering journalist and aspiring author based in atlanta. blogs at rachelmbeard.com.
currently seeking representation for debut novel.
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People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🏀 The WNBA experienced unprecedented growth this year and players are looking to capitalize on it through a new CBA that includes higher salaries and increased revenue sharing.

But is that a fair ask when the league reported a $40 million loss last season?
The reality about equal pay for the WNBA
Photo by Olegs Jonins on Unsplash. The 2025 WNBA All-Star Weekend was about two things: basketball and sisterhood. Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman live-streamed the entire weekend on their "StudBudz" Twitch channel. Nearly every player in Indianapolis made a cameo on their stream - including Caitlin Clark. Even Cathy Engelbert, the Commissioner of the WNBA, was…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I recently discovered Habibi Funk through a random Spotify playlist. After a bit of digging, I fell in love with their music and their story.

Learn more (and listen to some new tunes) in my latest blog post!
Play that Habibi Funk, white boy
Photo by Sam van Bussel on Unsplash. The year is 2012. The streets of Casablanca are full of promise. Young people, dissatisfied with their current government, are organizing protests and demanding reforms. The Arab Spring movement is taking North Africa by storm and leaving revolutionary sparks in its wake. But - for now - Casablanca is a city just like any other.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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While both men and women are struggling in Trump’s economy, women—especially young women—are bearing the brunt of rising costs, growing debt and dwindling faith in the American Dream.
Trump’s Economy Is Bad for Women
A Century Foundation poll shows young women are bearing the brunt of Trump's rising costs, growing debt and failing American Dream economy.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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RFK Jr.’s new report that claims it will make childen healthy again ignores the number one cause of death for childen in the United States: gun violence.

Fellow Defend Public Health member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy talked to the LA Times about this.

We didn’t ignore it in our IHAT report.
Kennedy commission child health report ignores gun violence, the leading cause of child death
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said violence could be fault of antidepressants, social media and video games, but not guns.
www.latimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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God, I am so sick of Harry Potter shit. Enough already!
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Another shot from a year ago. One of the most amazing sunsets of my life. Todd Harbor, Isle Royale.
September 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Dances from around the World!... so fun ✌🏽
September 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I've always wondered how Atlanta became the busiest airport in the world.

The short answer? Location, location, location.

The long answer? Check out my latest blog post below to find out.
All flights lead to Atlanta: how ATL became the busiest airport in the world
Photo by Scott Fillmer on Unsplash. It's the weekend. I'm somewhere in West Virginia - at a family reunion, maybe. I might be visiting my parents in Michigan, or staying with my friends in Maine. I'm talking to a stranger, the friend of a friend or the wife of a cousin. I balance a Coke between my hands and run my tongue over my teeth, searching for lipstick stains.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I hear it every time Disney announces another live action remake of a beloved childhood film: "has Hollywood run out of ideas?"

I'm here to answer - yes! But that's fine, actually.
Reboot remake sequel prequels are fine, actually
I was a little disappointed when I found out Pixar was making a Toy Story 5. Like many kids who grew up during the early 2000s, I loved Toy Story and Toy Story 2. I was skeptical of Toy Story 3, but I still saw it in theaters and was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Do you know someone who has scoliosis?

Well, good news - my latest blog post is about spinal fusion surgery as a treatment for scoliosis. Share it with a friend and let me know what they think.
On the backbone of a teenage girl
Content warning: This article includes descriptions of medical procedures and discussions of suicidal thoughts. The sky over the Royal National Ortopaedic Hospital is gray. It's not raining yet, but it is may as well be. It's late October, and the trees outside are just turning yellow. The glass buildings of the RNOH look like spaceships, touched down in the middle of a concrete parking lot.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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If you are a SFFH author whose books primarily feature f/f or f/NBi pairings and you have set up a direct store, I am making a directory of Sapphic SFFH direct stores!

Submit your pen name, bio, and up to 3 books with links to your direct store to be listed.

sapphic.ink
Sapphic Ink
Sapphic Authors who Publish Their Books Directly
sapphic.ink
July 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Blocking anyone who says an em dash or en dash is a sign of ChatGPT. No, sorry, writers know how to use punctuation. You guys are exhausting and you’re telling on yourselves if you’ve never seen a dash used correctly in the wild before.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Have you ever wondered what Nolan Bushnell's favorite game is?

Yeah, me neither. Join me in my latest blog post as I figure it out anyway.
The game that sparked an industry
About 18 miles outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, a group of young men are gathered around a tall white cabinet. Their polo shirts are tucked into their slacks, and their hair is short. The cabinet has a steering wheel attached to its front. One of the men is stomping on the accelerator pedal at its base while his friends cheer him on.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
After many weeks of furious writing and editing, and I am excited to officially launch my blog!

Check out my first post below where I explore why so many Michiganders rarely end up settling in their home state.
Saying “No” to Michigan
When I met my colleague Ryan in-person for the first time, he came into the office wearing a maize and blue striped tie. "Surely," I had to ask. "You aren't a Wolverine?" "Go Blue," was his cheeky answer. He wasn't the only University of Michigan graduate in my office. Both our deputy chief of staff and our deputy director's special assistant at the time were Michigan natives and U of M graduates.
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July 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Sliver of moon at sunrise. November 2024. 🧡💙
July 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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i see writers and artists sacrifice SO MUCH to be able to share their works with the world on the OFF CHANCE someone might see it and love it like they do.

and gen ai cronies think they can sidle up, do a little prompty prompt thefty theft and it makes them credible? please.
a man in a blue sweater is reading a book called sensible chuckle
Alt: a man in a blue sweater is reading a magazine called 'sensible chuckle' and chuckling sensibly
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July 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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July 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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July 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM