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15 Jun, 4 tweets, 3 min read
You know how most financial advice is, “be born rich or hate yourself until you become less poor”? I hate that advice. This week on ⁦@HearToSlay⁩ we had the financial advice we wish existed. The good brother ⁦@KieseLaymon⁩ joins us. apple.co/slay to listen Image
You might also like Kie and I in Critical Sociology talking about the intimate life of money when you’re Black, real Black, and aspirations find you somehow. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
We are also joined by the loveliest sister financial planner, Anna N’Jie Conte. We literally asked her to bring us the advice for people who have “cousins”. And she did. daretodreamplanning.com/meet-anna
And you can now subscribe to @HearToSlay in the @ApplePodcasts app. That’s new. apple.co/slay Image

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15 Jun
Another week and another "study" about how morning people are better than night people. I don't get what they're so pleased about. Ooh ooh look at your working harder for less before noon and not having any friends who will tell you that its annoying.
Maybe being a night person is how I contribute to the revolution. Have you ever thought about that??
"People who wake up early live longer!" Wow, 1.45 more years they have to wake before the sun. No thanks.
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13 Jun
I know it’s a hot market so sellers can do whatever. But builders should still get a stager without such a strong affinity for colonialism cause this is not cute
Anyway when people ask me what they can do with a social science degree, I’m going to add, “not choose the racist decor items”.
Based on comments to my mood social observations #onhere, I hypothesize that white people hear Black people at some register that triggers their primal racism brain. It’s the only way to explain what people come up with.
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11 Jun
Mare’s Hair avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2021/06/10/mar… via @Avidly Critical essay on blondness, dark roots, power and the show everyone on my TL keeps talking about? YES PLEASE.
I've only watch The Holiday a million times. And the page references in THICK is just my kind of carrying on.
I read something once about how films signal that a (white) woman has lost her shit, e.g. ponytail and sweatpants = mental breakdown. This read of time and the fading of blonde is both a character study and plot device is something.
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10 Jun
Next, I'm on to this new paper on how students understand college attainment returns:

Early Cost Realization and College Choice - Haewon Yoon, Yang Yang, Carey K. Morewedge, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
I know it is true* and that it is a perfectly fine way to situate a paper and get it published. Still, I will always cringe a little at this framing.
Setting up the Battle Royale! LOL (they're actually the same finding, conditioned on selectivity and practical college options but it's still fun.)
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10 Jun
This is very good & very important new research on radicalized orgs and diversity canards.
Diversity Displays and Organizational Messaging: The Case of Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Oneya Okuwobi, Deborwah Faulk, Vincent J. Roscigno, 2021 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Because "diversity" unilaterally and practically means introducing non-white people into majority white institutions/spaces, I have long been puzzled by HBCUs attempts at branding diversity.
As the authors point out, the issue is that HBCUs *are* the diversity and therefore do not fit into white logics of needing to be diversified. But a lot of resources and capital are attached to "Diversity" programming. How can a Black college procure those resources?
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8 Jun
Considering the freak out about the kids part of this statement, I may need to explicate my draw the obvious implications for same-gender forces intimacy in the classroom.
Inviting students into the intimate details of your marital life, sex life, and yes even parenting is also a problem.
Take a real life example of the white parent to a mixed race child who wanted their minority students to manage their racial anxiety.
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