i sing the reference tracks for royalty-free music. moonlighting as a window-washer for @nprcodeswitch.
just had a long, fascinating conversation with @TheBarbaraSmith abt the Combahee River Collective, what ppl get wrong abt identity politics, the political utility of waffles and her recent binge watch of all 5 seasons of @insecurehbo .
A distressing number of kids at the Please Touch Museum are wearing Harvard t-shirts
If she doesn’t get that last Slam, who cares? She’s the best to ever do it. and maybe more importantly, there’s prolly no tennis player who has ever *mattered* more.
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you know what? Here goes that story with @marclamonthill . *Wild.*
one of the wildest things abt white supremacy is how white people's feelings abt racism are always the terrain being contested and always presented as The Stakes.
Jonathan Ferrell was asking for help after a car crash. Tamir Rice was playing in a park. Akai Gurley was walking down the stairs.
Again: who counts as an "employee" at these companies? Are ppl who work retail at Nordstrom considered company employees or are they considered "independent contractors"? DoorDash has already said its drivers — who make up the HUGE majority of its workforce — won't be eligible.
Ruby Bridges is a superhero. But let's remember all the ways that the costs of desegregation were borne by black kids + black institutions.
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