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Archive Editor, @NewYorker + Classics newsletter editor. NYer archivist since 1994. IG & Threads: erin.overbey https://t.co/sCm7ghjIVP
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Sep 3 6 tweets 2 min read
the funniest part of this cover is that when @newyorker actually had an employee who pointed out the lack of diversity & representation on its own staff—with no Black editor for articles hired in ~15 yrs—instead of thanking her they put her on a retaliatory PIP & fired her… what’s equally funny about this cover is @newyorker has spent recent yrs *boosting* its bylines by POC &JOC by shifting many of them into a kind of “digital ghetto,”where online pieces pay ~$350 vs ~$6500 for print

so running a cover about underpaid nannies of color is…a choice
Aug 4 14 tweets 3 min read
a few thoughts on the state of the VP stakes so far…

so i’ve studied political history for yrs & was one of <10% of Americans to correctly predict Trump would win in 2016

i believe the Dems VP pick is pivotal in this election & here’s why🧵 first,no one should be under any illusions. this is still, in my assessment, a toss up race. why?

yes,the enthusiasm is currently all on the Dem side, poll numbers showing big increases

but we’re still in a ‘honeymoon stage,’ w/the Dems yet to face an onslaught of attack ads..
Jul 30 10 tweets 2 min read
so many ppl are saying that Trump’s decision to attend @nabj is about using an #NABJ24 appearance to try to sway some Black voters/influencers w/out offering any substantial policy changes

i disagree. i believe Trump’s decision to participate is specifically about white voters🧵 i believe the photo ops, press & publicity generated by Trump from this NABJ appearance will be used in Trump ads & other campaign propaganda & paraphernalia to try to ‘racially soften’ his image so as to target & peel off a very specific kind of white voter/demographic…
May 5 4 tweets 2 min read
dear reader, the audible gasp i gave when reading the emails a certain nepo baby journalist sent to a respected Stanford professor

these go beyond a sense of entitlement…this is something uglier. this level of disrespect toward a distinguished Black professor is just appalling


Theo Baker tweted to Stanford professor Hakeem Jefferson: Not sure you understand what objectivity means, Hakeem. This is a ridiculous tweet & I urge you to delete it
Theo Baker’s original email reprimanding Professor Jefferson
Professor Jefferson’s reply to Theo Baker’s original email
Theo Baker’s email response to Professor Jefferson’s reply. “…your reply….suggests a sense of superiority I find remarkable… …I’m not confident that sense is earned.”
i tend to believe that kids are off limits

but when i got to baker’s line “suggests a sense of superiority i find remarkable” (4th)…holy jesus

so dear white people (particularly yt ppl of privilege), pls take the time to read these and then….do the exact opposite
Aug 9, 2022 33 tweets 6 min read
After several weeks of dealing w/this circus, I have something I’d like to say about the @NewYorker, the legacy media world & the tactics of white hegemony. And I have a very clear message for the @NewYorker, in case they’ve misunderstood me in any way: I do not care what you say about me; I do not care how many anonymously sourced attack pieces are sent my way; I do not care what the powerful literati in this town think of me.