Do Black and other PoC creators know how much their work meant to a lot of poor white kids?

The way we grew up didn't fit the narrative of Whiteness that our media wanted to sell, so you all were the only characters and writers dealing with the questions and struggles we had. (And others we didn't, obviously.)

Everything from bits about parents obsessed with not wasting electricity, to struggle meals, to parents and elders whipping kids with extension cords - that was life for many of us, and you all were the only ones talking about it relatably.

Okay, here it goes.

You all can mute me temporarily if you're really not interested. Idk how long this will get or how often I'll be tweeting. It depends on how interesting the book gets. Up front, the frame of the book is not what I was expecting (though it makes sense, from what I know of the author).

He starts with a brief discussion of "the so-called Arab Spring," which he sees as having been co-opted by Gulf Rulers to redirect it away from their countries.

This part of this thread has me thinking about turnover, wages, mobility in the workplace, and inentional understaffing - bare-minimum staffing IS understaffing, by the way.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1030479272866144257

(*Note: Given the usage and context, I'm interpreting her usage of professionalism as proficiency, standards, etc - rather than the other, crappy usage, emphasizing language and conduct in accordance with white, middle-class values - and I'm adopting it for this thread.)

I want to talk a little about maybe my second favorite cultural worlds that has disappeared into the modern state system: The Rub' al-Khali. For those of you who prefer something long form to a tweet thread, I've linked a paper I wrote on the subject here:

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