Thread by @jamieleefinch

One more thing: Joshua Harris has told me privately how much my book meant to him + to other people he knows who read it.

He recently assembled a “deconstruction starter pack” as marketing material for his course. My book isn’t in it.

Someone isn’t citing their sources.

https://twitter.com/jamieleefinch/status/1426019696399224832

I struggled with whether or not to post this. Because I don’t enjoy knowing that a lot of people will probably only think I’m angry about this because I’m “bitter” (where have I heard that one before?) about not being included.

But you know what? This isn’t the first time a white man has “learned from me” and then passed my labor off as his own. That was my entire experience working with Derek Webb on the Airing of Grief podcast. None of the work, all of the credit.

I’m finished shutting up about it. I’m exhausted of watching white men with money do the bare minimum (but hire a stellar marketing team) and succeed at gaining the trust of vulnerable people.

I’m tired of seeing people buy into it. I’m fucking angry that it keeps working. I’m extremely upset that people I respect are falling for it. And I’m so sick and tired of ultimately being characterized as the “crazy woman” who refuses to “just let it go”.

I spent so much time and money and energy over the past year and a half fixing shit with my course, my content, my marketing that two white men almost broke past the point of anything being salvaged. Because they tried to apply their marketing “best practices” and I said no.

Because they tried to pull from the same playbook that Joshua Harris is implementing RIGHT NOW. And it’s deceptive. It’s untrustworthy. It’s a fucking grift. But it’s coming to you in the packaging you’ve been programmed to trust: a “repentant” white guy with good intentions.

It’s not that fucking difficult to have integrity.

And you know what? For a lot of white men, “integrity” looks like shutting the fuck up and finding a different lane.

By the way, y’all don’t need my permission to send this thread to him and ask him to explain himself but you have it. 😘

Well.