Sociologist, @DanaFarber Cancer Institute Research Fellow studying caregiving, irrationally proud Mainer, I don’t know how Twitter works (she/her)
Portland, ME
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My mom died of cancer in 2018. Caring for her while writing a dissertation and having a child was the best and most painful thing I've ever done. It also shifted my research from cancer prevention to caregiving. Today, my 1st caregiving study is out w/an editorial by (1/2)
Let this be the first of many @KTan_RN
Sharing latest pub: A Way Forward for Comprehensive Cancer Caregiver Support journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs… w/ @anny_fenton and Charles Kamen. #caregiving #policy
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The employee at the company who towed my car just ended the call with “have a better day.” Very appropriate.
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I have a stalker.
Recently, she contacted my employer in effort to get me fired.
She is racist, and has begun contacting ASIAN ACADEMICS connected w/ me on this platform. So, if that is you, there’s a chance she will send a similar letter to your employer. If this happens...
As a sociologist, it broke my brain how little focus there has been on racial & ethnic disparities in cancer caregiving (though as a sociologist, I understood why). Today, our study @MASCC_JSCC sheds some light...and is open access thanks to my @DFCI grant
link.springer.com/content/pd…
Black cgs' higher levels of social support and caregiving preparedness partly explain why they fare better than Whites on social, emotional, & physical burden. We theorize (but can't prove) that structural discriminatory forces have inadvertently bolstered these resources.
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Thank you to the rock star co-author team of Drs. Katherine Ornstein, Peggye Anderson-Dilworth, @NancyKeatingMD, @ErinEKent, Kristin Litzelman, Andrea Enzinger, Julia Rowland, and Alexi Wright
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Immense admiration for Iranian women’s (and men’s) bravery whirling hijabs from atop of police cars and shaving their heads in defense of women’s bodily autonomy…But also shame we’re not doing the same here for abortion rights.
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Let it be know: My child verbally formulated and answered her first research question this evening (albeit with Amazon AI, which is basically the Wikipedia of 2022) - “Is it safe for dogs to eat asparagus?”
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My new favorite flavor of spam journal invite - straight up bitter:
“Dear Dr. Anny T H R Fenton,
I feel obliged to invite you to submit a paper to our journal…”
#peppapig I'm sorry for calling you a useless show w/tired, repetitive themes. Today, Suzy Sheep helped my 4yo recognize our flat tire.
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Pretty much sums up the pandemic’s mishandling: biomedical solutions like vaccines aren’t enough if you don’t address the cultural and structural system they’re entering - ie People are gonna people and systems are gonna screw some of them theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Things realized after noting that @waitwait Don’t Tell Me’s star wars discussion was followed by the Star Trek theme song: 1. NPR is not as nerdy as I thought. 2. I am nerdier than NPR. Great?
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researchers whose work I really admire (@Utzrl @WarnerEcho) & I wrote it w/some rockstars (Alexi Wright, Katherine Ornstein @NancyKeatingMD @ErinEKent @LitzelmanK Julia Rowland). Mom would be proud...& question me for leaving a successful research agenda bit.ly/3IbfgDt
