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In the academic hierarchy, graduate students are units of labor.
and I know five other people who you recognize as people.”
Publishers want a black woman on their pages without the expense of adding one to their mastheads.
were using me to darken their web hits without darkening their staff.
beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.
As long as the beautiful people are white, what is beautiful at any given time can
be renegotiated without redistributing capital from white to nonwhite people.
Femininity is not about biological sex, but about the traits that have become ascribed to biological sex.
You cannot separate what it means to be a “woman,” often used to mean a performance of acceptable femininity, from the conditions that decide what is and is not acceptable across time and space.
Judith Butler
White women need me to believe I can earn beauty, because when I want what I cannot have, what they have becomes all the more valuable.
And that the men in my life were also men in the world.
It’s the kind of wound that keeps you alert to every potential doorway through which you might enter as a friend, sister, or woman, but leave as a bitch or a ho.
I had been keeping my counsel on this particular issue ever since David Brooks wrote 865 words about how gourmet sandwiches are ruining America in the New York effing Times.2 That was 593 words more than the Gettysburg Address and about 365 words more than we allow poor students to write about their neediness on many scholarship applications.
well-educated opinion writers like to critique the system of elite higher education that produced their social class.
They call them “supercans,” which sounds like it has a lot of cool powers but just means it can hold three Amazon Prime boxes. That is good because I am really working on being a socialist black feminist. It would help if my comrades did not see my Amazon Prime boxes in my trash can.
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Important people do not follow a lot of people in social media. It is one of those minute forms of status signaling we do now.
