Sara Zarr
@sarazarr.bsky.social
Author of 12 books and a bunch of other stuff / ☕ sarazarr.com/learnmore
I've been working on not giving in to despair, but I'm glad it's Good Friday tomorrow so I can mourn with impunity.
April 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I've been working on not giving in to despair, but I'm glad it's Good Friday tomorrow so I can mourn with impunity.
"...this is a national tragedy and a deeply unpatriotic one at that. ... Since its founding in 1965, NEH has helped thousands of scholars, teachers, and organizations gather, preserve, interpret, explore, and share the country’s history and its remarkable cultural traditions and treasures."
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Saving the NEH
April 11, 2025
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April 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"...this is a national tragedy and a deeply unpatriotic one at that. ... Since its founding in 1965, NEH has helped thousands of scholars, teachers, and organizations gather, preserve, interpret, explore, and share the country’s history and its remarkable cultural traditions and treasures."
NEH changed its seal but hasn't managed to update its site, which still says it "supports the humanities in every state and jurisdiction." False advertising given that it just canceled every state's operating grant.
April 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
NEH changed its seal but hasn't managed to update its site, which still says it "supports the humanities in every state and jurisdiction." False advertising given that it just canceled every state's operating grant.
I wrote a little about humans & humanity in my newsletter. Humanism, whether it's secular or religious, is the dissident stance.
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April 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I wrote a little about humans & humanity in my newsletter. Humanism, whether it's secular or religious, is the dissident stance.
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sarazarr.com/news
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i'm holding your hands, gently
april 7 is the start of national library week. get your library card. write your library board. check out 10 books. use your library. do it.
april 7 is the start of national library week. get your library card. write your library board. check out 10 books. use your library. do it.
April 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'm holding your hands, gently
april 7 is the start of national library week. get your library card. write your library board. check out 10 books. use your library. do it.
april 7 is the start of national library week. get your library card. write your library board. check out 10 books. use your library. do it.
April 5th 50501 Protest in Salt Lake City
YouTube video by Jan-Michael
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April 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Exactly this. If you don’t know what’s going on, here’s the context call to action www.statehumanities.org/action-alert...
April 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Exactly this. If you don’t know what’s going on, here’s the context call to action www.statehumanities.org/action-alert...
Good. Because we’re learning even if institutions attempt to comply, they’re going to take away support anyway.
New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs.
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
April 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Good. Because we’re learning even if institutions attempt to comply, they’re going to take away support anyway.
In my day job I just spoke to someone who described themselves as die-hard T**mp fan and was very kind and interesting to talk to, but also the reason for the call was to ask why our grants process was paused (D*GE) and seemed to think it would magically unpause soon and...idk man.
April 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In my day job I just spoke to someone who described themselves as die-hard T**mp fan and was very kind and interesting to talk to, but also the reason for the call was to ask why our grants process was paused (D*GE) and seemed to think it would magically unpause soon and...idk man.
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Not one of these EOs listed in this letter is valid. Notably, no statutory language is listed. The President’s agenda is not a statutory reason for termination. It really is just straight up lying and people should start just suing the government in the Court of Claims.
April 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Not one of these EOs listed in this letter is valid. Notably, no statutory language is listed. The President’s agenda is not a statutory reason for termination. It really is just straight up lying and people should start just suing the government in the Court of Claims.
The state is not my identity. The state is not my security. The state is not my friend.
Lil' Friday mantra I found myself chanting this morning
Lil' Friday mantra I found myself chanting this morning
April 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The state is not my identity. The state is not my security. The state is not my friend.
Lil' Friday mantra I found myself chanting this morning
Lil' Friday mantra I found myself chanting this morning
Reposted by Sara Zarr
We interrupt all this bad news for a story.
April 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We interrupt all this bad news for a story.
Cheers: I'm looking forward to new books from Angela Flournoy and Michelle Huneven this year.
Jeers: I can't read anymore without 3 different eyeglasses and a half dozen lamps.
Jeers: I can't read anymore without 3 different eyeglasses and a half dozen lamps.
April 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Cheers: I'm looking forward to new books from Angela Flournoy and Michelle Huneven this year.
Jeers: I can't read anymore without 3 different eyeglasses and a half dozen lamps.
Jeers: I can't read anymore without 3 different eyeglasses and a half dozen lamps.
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Cheers: STORY OF A GIRL is on that best books of the 21st century so far Kirkus thing
Jeers: The major funding institution of my day job got DOGEd
Jeers: The major funding institution of my day job got DOGEd
April 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Cheers: STORY OF A GIRL is on that best books of the 21st century so far Kirkus thing
Jeers: The major funding institution of my day job got DOGEd
Jeers: The major funding institution of my day job got DOGEd
🚨 Hey authors/readers, do you like your local or regional book festival? Chances are it's at least partially funded by the NEH via your state humanities council. The NEH just got D*GE'd which means your state council is in big trouble. Please read/act: www.statehumanities.org/action-alert...
Action Alert: NEH Targeted by DOGE - Federation of State Humanities Councils
Save Our Humanities Councils: DOGE Cuts to NEH will Damage Cultural Organizations in Every State April 3, 2025 – UPDATE Late last night, Wednesday, April 2, all humanities councils received … Read mor...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🚨 Hey authors/readers, do you like your local or regional book festival? Chances are it's at least partially funded by the NEH via your state humanities council. The NEH just got D*GE'd which means your state council is in big trouble. Please read/act: www.statehumanities.org/action-alert...
I got to watch and listen pretty much all day, and when it was time to go home I left the stream on and plugged it into my car speakers, then watched the rest. I didn't spent one minute of it on socials and it was honestly thrilling to experience something so tremendous without a side of hot takes.
April 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I got to watch and listen pretty much all day, and when it was time to go home I left the stream on and plugged it into my car speakers, then watched the rest. I didn't spent one minute of it on socials and it was honestly thrilling to experience something so tremendous without a side of hot takes.
Every time I come back to socials after a break I feel ever stronger longing for so, so very much more than what can be found on an app and also the worry that maybe this is what a large part of humanity has settled for to define connection and that would be/is bad. Anyway! Here’s my cat!
March 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Every time I come back to socials after a break I feel ever stronger longing for so, so very much more than what can be found on an app and also the worry that maybe this is what a large part of humanity has settled for to define connection and that would be/is bad. Anyway! Here’s my cat!
I’m working on selling some new projects for the first time since 2019 the ✨vibes are different ✨ I’m almost upon the 20th anniversary of selling my first novel and it’s been a RIDE.
March 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I’m working on selling some new projects for the first time since 2019 the ✨vibes are different ✨ I’m almost upon the 20th anniversary of selling my first novel and it’s been a RIDE.
I still think about When the Moon Turns to Blood all the time, so this was an immediate buy.
Out today: Blazing Eye Sees All, my investigation into the wide spiritual world of the New Age. It is an unintentional story of extremism, feminism, climate change, deception, power, myth and the very nature of believing. I hope you read it.
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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
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March 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I still think about When the Moon Turns to Blood all the time, so this was an immediate buy.
Drive-by post to say that in spite of everything else, it’s been a great reading year for me so far and I just got Leah Sottile’s (@leahsottile.bsky.social )new book and I know the streak will hold.
March 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Drive-by post to say that in spite of everything else, it’s been a great reading year for me so far and I just got Leah Sottile’s (@leahsottile.bsky.social )new book and I know the streak will hold.
It's reached my 88 year-old mom
February 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It's reached my 88 year-old mom
Getting my mammogram today and because I hate it with a passion I'm taking the rest of the day off for a slow walk and cozy writing session with candles and dark chocolate and fairy lights and basically being a cliche without apology.
February 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Getting my mammogram today and because I hate it with a passion I'm taking the rest of the day off for a slow walk and cozy writing session with candles and dark chocolate and fairy lights and basically being a cliche without apology.
Recently finished Ron Chernow's The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, and am almost half through American Apocolypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism by Matthew Avery Sutton and both feel so relevant to understanding pieces of how we got HERE.
January 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Recently finished Ron Chernow's The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, and am almost half through American Apocolypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism by Matthew Avery Sutton and both feel so relevant to understanding pieces of how we got HERE.