Thread by @Okwonga

1/ What she has done here is an extreme example of something worryingly common. This is such a terrible betrayal of trust. It is - from very grim experience - very specific to the behaviour of a certain type of white woman in black spaces. It is a colonial level of entitlement.

2/ I don't make the above claim lightly. Krug has ridden on the back of sisterhood and blackness for many years, and goodness knows how many confidences she has falsely acquired in that time. Now watch as her pain is prioritised over that of the many people she has hurt.

3/ Krug wandered into a world that was not her own and cherry-picked her friends and jobs at leisure. She must have felt like a celebrity. Sadly, she is not alone in that. Access to blackness - to black womanhood - is intoxicating for people like her.

4/ I dread to think of all the people - most likely black women - who were shunned for calling Krug out over the years. I can only imagine the hostility with which she defended herself, which is an insidious strand of racism. These people are professional gaslighters.

5/ As Krug begins her well-paid redemption arc - which she most certainly will - please think of the countless friendships and reputations she has callously damaged, all to save face. The people she has privately badmouthed, just to cover her tracks. It is sickening.

6/ So many of us know a Jessica Krug: a certain type of white woman who is scared that their life is not sufficiently interesting, so they attach themselves to the thrill of blackness. As for her phrase "intimate relationships" - she is an emotional predator, at the very least.

7/ Last tweet. I think this story moved me so much as the level of manipulation is so grotesque: filling a hole in your life by using black people and their emotions - hopefully not their bodies too - as props. She'll be very lucky if more damning details don't emerge. So cruel./