Tara Campbell

@taracampbell

Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction Books, events, and classes at #WritingCommunity #scifi #sff #speculativefiction #flashfiction

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Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jul 10

It's a weird, wonderful thing for me to not have to return to a gallery to pick up unsold work. Thank you, Museum of Northwest Art for making that possible, and to the person who purchased The Writer!

A hanging sculpture against a red background: two white mannequin hands holding up bones and white crocheted skulls, held together by twine and leather cord.

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jul 10

They're trying it again. The #BookBanBill has made it out of committee & they're probably going to try to sneak it through this summer. Don't let them hold education funds hostage to their obsession with gender & "lewd or lascivious dancing" Thx for this graphic @authorsabb.bsky.social

Get to Know Your
Bigoted Book Banning Bill
Are these your
reps? If they are,
write and call
them, repeatedly,
and remind them
that voters really
don’t like the
government telling
them what to read.
H. R. 7661
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prohibit the use
of funds provided under such Act to develop, implement, facilitate, host, or promote
any program or activity for, or to provide or promote literature or other materials to,
children under the age of 18 that includes sexually oriented material, and for other
purposes.
Buried in the bottom
of the bill, the real
intent: defining
being transgender
as sexual activity
in itself as a step
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
towards outlawing
February 24, 2026
Mrs. Miller of Illinois (for herself, Mr. Downing, Mr. Fine, Mr. Steube,
trans existence/
Mr. Gosar, Mr. Ogles, Ms. Hageman, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Moore of
gender non-
Alabama, Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina, Ms. Letlow, Ms. Tenney, Mr.
conformity in public
settings.
Roy, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Rose, Mr. Owens, and Mr. Self) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Education and Workforce
No Funds Used:
Restricting use of
funds is one step
short of defunding
schools and
libraries—which is
the ultimate point of
these book banning
bills. Distract with
culture war issues
to steal more money
from the public!
Now we have
wandered
into the movie
Footloose.
You know what
this means, right?
Back to teaching
predominantly
dead white men.
SECTION 1. Short title.
This Act may be cited as the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act”.
SEC. 2. Prohibiting funding for sexually oriented material.
Section 8526 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
7906) is amended—
(1) by striking “No funds under this Act may be used—” and inserting the
following:
“(a) General prohibitions.—No funds under this Act may be used—”; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
“(b) Prohibiting funding for sexuall…

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jul 5

So proud to be part of this gorgeous project from @thebluntspace.bsky.social Check it out at www.theblunt.space/publications...

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jun 16

Friday Harbor on a Monday night #fridayharbor

Harbor in the evening, overcast skies with low-angle sunlight on yellow and white buildings, small craft on calm waters

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jun 5

Hi! I'm playing at the #steelpan Spring Class Showcase Tues Jun 9, 6:30 pm, Emmanuel, 503 N 50th St The concert will be headlined by the amazing Phinney Ridge Steel Band, who will also be playing at @growlerzseattle.bsky.social & Pam's Kitchen this month. Come on down and hear some great music!

Flyer with light blue background and an image of a steel pan

Text:

Phinney Ridge Steel Band
Summer 2026 Concerts

June

Jun 6 Growlerz Seattle
1:00 PM 5269 Rainier Ave S, Seattle WA

Jun 9 Spring Class Showcase
6:30 PM Emmanuel Phinney Ridge

Jun 20 Pam's Kitchen
6:30 PM 1715 N 45th St, Seattle WA

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· May 26

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone (if you feel like it)

Person in jeans and orange smock wearing a headdress that covers her from head to waist. Headdress is an oversized papier-mâche deer head with pale lips and two different-colored eyes (red and blue) and sheer gold cloth hanging from the bottom of its head

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· May 12

Stay alert for HR 7661! This horrible book banning bill has been brewing in the House. Please call your reps to make sure they know about it, and to make sure it doesn't get snuck into any wild-ass omnibus bills. And thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social for the graphic encapsulating the bill

H. R. 7661
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prohibit the
use of funds provided under such Act to develop, implement, facilitate, host, or
promote any program or activity for, or to provide or promote literature or other
materials to, children under the age of 18 that includes sexually oriented material,
and for other purposes.

More info at H. R. 7661: https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/authors-against-book-bans-response-to-the-department-of-educations-statement-supporting-book-bans-in-american-schools/

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· May 11

Cowboy ducks! Or cowducks? You decide #crochet pattern by Easy Crochet Plushies

Two green crocheted rubber-duckie style ducks, snuggling side by side. Slightly smaller one on left has a purple beak and cowboy hat; the slightly larger one has a pink beak and cowboy hat

Two green crocheted rubber-duckie style ducks lined up in a row. Slightly smaller one on left has a purple beak and cowboy hat; the slightly larger one has a pink beak and cowboy hat

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· May 5

A reminder of my little attempt to sweeten the pot for donating to causes like @splcenter.org: The 12 Angry Lips initiative is still there for you! Make a donation and I'll send you knitted lips--what could be better! 💋 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Woman with brown hair and glasses and oversized knitted lips, dark red with white teeth and purple tentacles in place of a tongue

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Mar 28

#NoKinga

Dude dressed in colonial gear, complete with white wig, holding a giant American flag and a sign reading "All are Created Equal"

Person in a toilet costume with a Trump mask holding a roll of toilet paper printed with Trump's image and a sign reading "Suitable Throne 4 this Wannabe King"

Woman holding a sing reading "Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Sign with Trump's head on a chicken's body and "TACO" below him

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Mar 18

My friend @meganalpert.bsky.social is having another Submission Jumpstart tonight, and you can bring a friend for free

Two hands pinky swearing and QR code to bring a friend

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Mar 10

Palace of Fine Arts in #sanfrancisco

Blue sky, bright green grass, leafy plants around a lake in the background, cupola with elaborate reddish columns in the background, and a silly woman in a pink shirt and jeans and fluffy brown hair posing on a tree stump in front of it

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Mar 6

Look at this dapper lil guy! #cochet #octopus

Lemon yellow crocheted octopus with white accents and white derby

Same lemon yellow crocheted octopus, but in the dark: yellow sections now almost as dark as the background, white accents and derby now an eerie glow-in-the-dark greenish hue

Same lemon yellow crocheted octopus, but in the dark (a little closer): yellow sections now almost as dark as the background, white accents and derby now an eerie glow-in-the-dark greenish hue

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Feb 19

Latest #crochet project w/ glow-in-the-dark #yarn #octopus pattern by @octopusarmycharge.bsky.social

Greenish glow in the dark crochet octopus with black accents and top hat

White octopus with black accents and purple top hat

Greenish glow in the dark octopus with black accents and top hat

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Feb 9

My #superbowl buddy

Small furry black and brown dog lying on his side on couch with chewy toy pig in his mouth

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Feb 3

Are you in #Seattle? Do you need something uplifting? Well, I'm using this video from last year's Phinney Ridge Steel Band class concert as a lure to tell you about the NEXT steel band class concert: Tuesday, March 31 6:00 pm at Emmanuel 503 North 50th Street Come hear what we've been working on!

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jan 24

Friday night #crochet #skeleton

Crocheted red skeleton slouching on a windowsill with a cocktail

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jan 21

Just sayin'

Protest sign reading "MELT ICE" in foreground, protest on city street in background

Dozens of people with protest signs marching down the middle of street on a sunny day

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jan 16

A bit of nice news: my #art is going to part of #4Culture 's Artist Carousel program from Feb 2026 through the end of the year. It will be displayed in rotation with other art on public-facing screens at 101 Prefontaine Pl S, #Seattle, WA & online at rosters.4culture.org/artist-carou...

white mannequin hand held up by twine, holding up a cross made of bone. Bone cross is holding up another mannequin hand by leather straps, which is in turn holding a series of crocheted skulls strung together by twine. Skulls are white and include humans and devils and animals. Red crocheted devil head in the center. all of this against a red background

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jan 15

Just getting around to reading the #America'sFuture #anthology by @wwph.bsky.social (better late than never) and really enjoyed @lenkruger.bsky.social 's incisive #flashfiction "Child Psychiatrist: the Television Series" Get the whole shebang at washingtonwriters.org/publication/...

LEN KRUGER | 13
CHILD PSYCHIATRIST: THE TELEVISION SERIES
LEN KRUGER
THIS IS NOT ABOUT A PSYCHIATRIST who treats children. This is about a child who is a mental health professional, a twelve-year-old prodigy, the Mozart of psychiatrists. The opening title sequence sets the tone: "You sound upset, Amer-ica!" the Child Psychiatrist will say, the voice clear and angelic, the eyes wide and innocent. "How do you feel about that?"
The year is 2025, fifty years into the future. Flying cars. Housekeeper robots wearing aprons. Sparkling cities on 30,000-foot stilts, gently tickling the clouds.
But all is not well. The world's supply of chromium and molybdenum has been exhausted, and steel is not what it used to be. Corrosive forces roam the land, rusting out not only ferrous alloys, but the very soul of America. Anxiety and self-doubt course through the body politic. Paranoia abounds. Religious cults proliferate. Conspiracy theories metastasize.
Enter: The Child Psychiatrist. His pre-teen demeanor soothes. His plain-spoken analysis illuminates. He is a national phenomenon, a mental-health-

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jan 14

Is that what they're calling hemorrhoids in the Orange Reich now?

CBS headline claiming Renee Good's murderer had "internal bleeding to the torso" following the "incident"

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jan 12

Red Skelly knows good reading when he sees it Goclin Mode by @carolinehagood.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social www.sfwp.com/books/hagood #speculative #memoir

Red crochet skeleton on a brown couch holding copy of Goblin Mode novel

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jan 11

I'm thinking a quarterly newsletter w/ little piece of writing, maybe an image of art I'm working on & some upcoming classes & events. Short and sweet, like me. ;) To sign up, send an email TO: Taras-writing-and-whatnot+subscribe@googlegroups.com one word, one line, no spaces 2/3

A pair of earrings: two white crocheted skulls with red yarn eyes, nose and mouth

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Jan 4

Skellys say hi Pattern by #yarnaholicsewciopath #crochet #skeleton

Red and white crocheted skeletons sitting side by side on a sand-colored couch, each with an arm around the other

White crocheted skeleton sitting on a Kleenex box in a in front of a bathroom mirror

Same white skeleton sitting on the Kleenex box, but now glow-in-the dark green in pitch black room

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Dec 23

Hey #seattleites, take your visiting families to Cannonball Arts so they can see the Mirror, Mirror exhibit and vote for my picture with my sister. It'll be on display this week and you can help us win best picture with your vote! cannonballarts.com

A photo of two women, one half behind a mirror and the other half in front of the mirror, so they look like one person.

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Dec 19

Riding the nudibranch at Cannonball Arts Center

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Dec 12

With my sis at @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social Who's who? Who knows?

Two women in hoodies posing in aan atrium with paper masks of clouds over their faces. Overhead in the background, the same clouds hanging from the ceiling

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Nov 30

Happy Holidays!

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Nov 19

It's kinda cool that I'm always near #OctaviaButler at the #bookstore -- in this case #ThirdPlaceBooks And I didn't even have to arrange the cover out myself ;) @sfwp.bsky.social #CityOfDancingGargoyles #speculativefiction #novels

Bookshelf with novels by Octavia Butler above shelf with City of Dancing Gargoyles by me

Tara Campbell@taracampbell· Nov 13

Thank you, Twisted Tongue Press, for publishing my contrapuntal #poem "Untold" in conversation with #ZoraNealeHurston 's Their Eyes Were Watching God about Blackness and silence and communication and understanding across the ages twistedtonguepress.com/poetry/untold/