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Tressie McMillan Cottom
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@unc professor & @nytimes columnist. I write to change your mind for good. avi 📸: @photoninja357 All inquiries: @doriankarchmar w/@wme
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Apr 21, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Tonia Sutherland on how AI/3D/holograms embodiments of archived record that serves commercial interests and whiteness/spectacle are a kind ghost slavery. Close read of Tupac at Coachella Image It’s carcerality + code + archives + spectacle

Me: We will be wrestling with this a lot as the tools to turn trace and archival data into ghosts becomes democratized
Apr 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My position on babies is on the record. I won’t be covering it here. Agree etc.

I only want to add that I wonder whatever happened to just being…mildly annoyed. You know, my default state? You can be annoyed and just…sit with that. You roll your eyes a little. Maybe you suck your teeth. But you just sort of suck it up. There is a whole emotional range between “happily accept” and “rage out” that we lost over the last 20 years. I think about this a lot.
Apr 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Genetically superior but need SPF 70. Okay. Breed for melanin deficiency and don’t stop climate change. Make it make sense. Like I’m on the wrong end of the bell curve.
Apr 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Understand this, I will spend a lot of my disposable income on being comfortable during these years. I don’t care. And I don’t have symptoms, as far as I know. I did go plant-based (don’t want to talk about it because it’s impossible to do without being effing annoying) but I will do any of the things up to a Paltrow egg in my hooha. I will not do that.
Mar 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I met a Black woman sociologist this week whose work I recognized. She says we met at Emory! I assume we overlapped in grad school. She meant…she was in undergrad. She remembers me teaching my advisor’s strat class. Today she is a faculty member at Harvard. I am one million years old.
Mar 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hustle culture + phone alerts + guns+ filters + no fresh air + hustle culture.

I asked my students about LinkedIn this semester and these basically-youth-adjacent people said they have been on it since MIDDLE SCHOOL. For why, Craig?? Networking in middle school. We are sick. I cannot get over it. I think about it almost every day. Middle schoolers fresh from a day of shooter drills going home to not touch grass and check their Linked In for recruiter emails. What are we even saving our world for at this point?
Jan 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Can you get yourself removed from @wikipedia? I literally do not want to be in it.
Dec 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
People truly don’t understand what’s happening in the man-sphere. I assure you that Tate looks silly to us but many men and boys take him very seriously. He has been wanted for a long time. We kid but this arrest has likely been in the works for awhile.
Dec 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is amazing on so many levels. You must see "the plaid moment".
Dec 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
California real estate gives me an anxiety attack. No matter how creative, a $1.87m mortgage is not okay for normal people.
Dec 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’ve been reading about this all day. Airline brat and all that. The storm created a logistical challenge but it looks like the real problem is corporate austerity gutted operations. They couldn’t respond to storm conditions. It would be a rare misstep for SW. twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Their corporate comms has been horrible.
Dec 23, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It is one of the greatest paradoxes of status, truly. And it is very American. You can never admit favor. It isn't better or worse, but in other cultures one just says, "yep, I'm son/daughter of a big man. sue me." There is a certain honesty to it. The faux outrage at being born rich, white, able-bodied, etc. is so dishonest.
Dec 23, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I’m on the sidelines of this but a great research topic here: We have only just begun to understand mis/disinformation in racial and ethnic info systems. It challenges a lot of the binary racist/anti-racist theorizing in the field right now.
Dec 22, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I *hope* this one won't surprise anyone but to be clear, I agree with Liza here. I have double-downed on our capacity to do better in writing about powerful women. We can do it, I swear. And I don't know how many pages it would be but I have a google folder of explicit instructions that are very much like Sinema's. You know why? People will treat me like a Pomeranian, if I let them.
Dec 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In the past two months I’ve reconnected with two people who have known me for over 25 years. It’s been the oddest sensation. I’ve previously disclosed that I am not nostalgic. I also don’t have memories. Sitting across from someone who remembers me at 16 years old & has all these stories has been a lot to process.
Dec 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
That was amazing. That man understands statecraft.
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The thing with the nepo baby discourse is that it is:

one, funny in just the right kind of way for our social media society.

two, encapsulates how capitalism has to both produce family as a basic economic unit & extrinsic motivation for poor people to work hard. Everyone wants to be a nepo baby or produce a nepo baby. And that is the rub.
Dec 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
When he forks that pastrami I leave my body The guttural sound I made when he bit into the oxtail
Dec 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
An extra $20 if someone can show where I said it is connected to a political party.

Real talk, we are having very different conversations. Describing something does not necessarily make a judgement.

Aesthetics are not politically neutral.

All politics aren’t electoral politics.

The intent need not align with the context of how a thing is consumed.

Those aesthetics are esonate with right wing aesthetics.
Dec 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People are very angry about this right wing image thing. I’m sorry if it’s your friends or you like it but neither of those are my problem. I sincerely don’t care who did it or why. I have had to curse out five people over this! Five.
Dec 17, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
As some of you know, I have a lay interest in right wing iconography & style. This is right wing design.