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Tressie McMillan Cottom
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I saw on here recently someone said that one tactic for black women to reclaim our time is to stop saying yes immediately. Take some time to think on it.
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A black sociologist walks into a HOA meeting about BLM signs and what are being called “signs not in support of BLM”. Them: we only allow political signsMe: “black lives
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The small ones are usually bureaucratic. By the time a doctor tells you they should just “yank your uterus out to get it over with”? They’ve started conditioning you for
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I know what the American pediatrician asssociation said about social well-being and schooling. I know what some sociologists have said about a “lost generation” when schools close. I also know
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Did I not just request this very story?! Important: At college health centers nationwide, students have battled misdiagnoses and inaccessible care - The Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/07/13/college-health-
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I won't defend Harvard's tuition. But I will tell you that I wrote a book about what happens when you conflate signal and human capital. And it's not pretty. You
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UVA isn’t *exceptionally* racist, in my experience. I’ve certainly engaged with more racist institutions. UVA *is* more racist than its modest prestige generally affords an institution.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/22/two-
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Today we learned that the sensor that opens the trunk of my stupid car isn’t broken.My legs simply aren’t long enough to trigger the sensor when I kick at it.
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Ask your students if they will share their info with you so you can bail them out if need be. They may be away from home and not have anyone
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I am often the first black woman to have ever said “no” to some people and you can tell. I have to do a great many things. And part of
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One of many stories I could tell is from graduate school. My comps reading group was to meet at Tuesday the next semester. Over summer I got some kind of
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"Faculty will be responsible for cleaning all classroom surfaces."I once taught a section after a guy who taught chemistry. I spent five minutes cleaning half a mile of whiteboard of
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