I just published ‘One Step In, One Step Removed’: An Ode To Status Literacy https://link.medium.com/AidhiIxjFfb ">https://link.medium.com/AidhiIxjF...

I lean heavily on @tressiemcphd& #39;s incredibly accessible analysis of status in her recent interview with @ezraklein. But really this is me waking up (again) to why Tressie& #39;s work is often "telling my whole life with [her] words." Here& #39;s that podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-tressie-mcmillan-cottom.html?smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/1...

It feels like forever since I was able to write like this, making connections between text, experience and more text. I& #39;ve missed doing that. It& #39;s not surprising that Tressie& #39;s ideas spark so many of my own. I& #39;m grateful to get a little of that old feeling back.

Although I couldn& #39;t quite weave Charles Derber& #39;s work on attention and power into the essay, his book was my first encounter with popular sociology that helped me see that I might want to go read more. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273223.The_Pursuit_of_Attention">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show...

Also, shout out to @tiffanymjewell whose wonderful primer for young folks, This Book Is Anti-Racist, helped me find more words to describe my experience in parsing my social identities and their relationship to dominant culture. https://bookshop.org/books/this-book-is-anti-racist-20-lessons-on-how-to-wake-up-take-action-and-do-the-work/9780711245211?aid=9571">https://bookshop.org/books/thi...

Anyway, yay, me! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙌🏾" title="Erhobene Hände (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Hände (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)">I finally wrote an essay and it& #39;s also a revival of #IdentityEducationPower which is 5 years old but sort of went to sleep in between. Please check it out if you& #39;re not familiar. https://medium.com/identity-education-and-power">https://medium.com/identity-...