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4 Feb, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Well lookie there, a handful of Black women just happen to be talking about race, gender & country music on @HearToSlay this week, f. the inimitable @RissiPalmer

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its…
And my quick round-up of country’s biggest racism news day yesterday:
Wallen’s timing sucked. The world has been handed to him on a platter. Seventy-two hours ago he was poised to be a breakout pop country-to-rock star. This morning, @SIRIUSXM country-news channel framed their critical response as: “we hate to do it but we just broke up with MW.”
His timing also sucked because “cane we all just get along” Big Country had a competing feel good story about “difference” on the same day. They could point to Brother Osborne front singer’s coming out as a way to feel good as a country fan.
I scanned three country stations, two broadcast and one satellite. Wallen news on all of them and these platforms are VERY anti news. It’s looking like a perfect storm for the man with the mullet
And this year too many LGBTQIA and non-white musicians had a moment for Big Country to make excuses for Wallen here. It’s not being racist that got him in trouble. It’s being racist on tape, THIS YEAR.
Anyway, he will be back. He was making too much money. He is in no way Dixie Chicked, though he should be, the slimy little f*cker. A redemption story for a white man is literally the core musical trope. He’ll be fine. But he sure made a mess for himself.
Palate cleanser

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Listen to Black women

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4 Feb
Not surprised to see this rabbit hole end (or begin?) with anthropology tbh
I’m not quick to judge pedagogy out of context. But there is only ever one context for the “imagine being a slave!” assignment, in all its many iterations. It is bad.
As someone who spent some time in a teacher training program once, the commitment to teaching this way runs the gamut from k-21. It’s a worldview & its adherents rarely care how dangerous it is because it makes THEM feel better.
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28 Jan
I rant about this all the time but never on Twitter because I don’t need that on my permanent record. I fantasize about subjecting the CEO of every consumer goods company to open the packaging on their most popular items.
Let me see you *checks notes* pull the corner tab on this “resealable” package, Mr. Meyer.
Or, “pull this tab” BUT THERE IS NO TAB! They lie about tabs pathologically.
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28 Jan
I AM SCREAMING ITS SO GOOD
The way he nailed the mouthfeel of “rekkids”???? I cannot
I am boycotting the Oscars until this child is a category
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27 Jan
The CFP for this workshop is now live. I am thrilled to be hosting with my colleagues ⁦@lanalana⁩ & ⁦@SareetaAmrute⁩ at ⁦@datasociety⁩: The Hustle Economy: Race, Gender, and Digital Entrepreneurship datasociety.net/announcements/…
We have had some great planning and research discussions about the contours of precarity, entrepreneurial ideologies in a digital economy, as well as the historical sediments of that work (eg MLMs, piecemeal work, franchises).
Some things I’m reading around this topic, include:

@lanalana’s new book on digital money, “New Money
How Payment Became Social Media”

Non-western scholarship on hustle ethnographies: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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26 Jan
This is amazing content. It hits differently when you see it than when you only read it. The $20 thing is so visceral because the amount of routine theft that everyday white people did and do is impossible to measure. Impossible.
I’m not that old & i have these same stories. I clearly remember buying some Day’s Work from a convenience store for my auntie. I was a smart 9 or 10 year old. Quiet in front of authority but smart (shut up). I remember counting the change a white cashier gave me for the purchase
He had crumpled the bills up and shoved them in my hand. I was smoothing them to count them. And he got red and started screaming at me. Screaming. Because I was counting the change he knew he had just shorted me. Just everyday violence and theft.
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24 Jan
I have a 3/4 baked argument about what’s going on with these “a nation/family divided” stories. Maybe I should jot it down quickly.
Tl;dr is you were always going to have to choose between family and cult of marriage and whiteness. Always. These have been on a crash course for three generations. It sounds like it sucks and I’m sure it does. But this was always the price for having a soul.
Either the “how to be good white people” books don’t cover this OR people didn’t read them all the way through. I don’t know because I’ve not read any of them, to be honest. But yes, uh, breaking up with many of your white people is exactly the end game.
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