PSA: although your favorite Twitter celebs, activists, scholars, and friends may have really dope takes on things that you are passionate about, PLEASE READ the literature that they are quoting and interpreting.

Digesting someone’s interpretation of a seminal text is not the same as reading it yourself. People’s experiences and identities give them a positionally which in turn affects their interpretation of the text.

Sometimes when you read for yourself, you peep ppl’s interpretation’s are skewed or flat out . Some of your faves have agendas that are not benevolent.

Also, don’t be afraid to ask mfs who they are reading.