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Zebrafish disease model maven. A wee cog in the Great Science Machine. Expert at explaining things. She/her. Profile art by @blackmudpuppy
Jul 30, 2022 14 tweets 3 min read
Nearly 18 months after the viral thread about my mom getting her Covid shot, @ransomhughes wove together bits of our conversation, archived recordings of an interview mom did elsewhere, and perfect accents of music and spoken word to create a layered story 1/ In our interview, Michelle asked insightful questions about our relationship, & I gave her honest answers. For a lot of years it wasn’t good. I don’t actually know if it was ever something that could be called “good”, in fact, but dysfunction doesn’t preclude love, or care. 2/