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class read for my creative non-fiction workshop! very inspirational in terms of thinking about ways to combine my academic and creative writing pursuits, also just a really well written book! each of these essays was super impactful
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just seeing her seamlessly weave material analyses into discussions of Black beauty and linkedin and everything else was pretty impressive. what a generative way to see the world
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Tressie McMillan Cottom is so damn smart!! She's an expert in her field, and it was all my pea brain could do to hang on to her every word.
"Thick" is a deliciously complex set of essays. Both academic and colloquial, they are unabashedly... well, thick. Through her musings on everything from racial healthcare disparities to beauty standards to Miley Cyrus twerking at the VMAs, McMillan Cotton shines a light on the particular intersection of Black womanhood. There's so much to mull over here within such a short span of pages—I'd like to go back in with a fine tooth comb, poring over the footnotes and referential texts I missed during my initial read.
At times the writing is so referential that it was kind of difficult for me to comprehend. Guess I'm just not that pop-culture savvy (and usually too lazy to check out footnotes).
Overall though, definitely an anti-racist book worth reading. If you liked "Hood Feminism," you'll like this one too.
"Thick" is a deliciously complex set of essays. Both academic and colloquial, they are unabashedly... well, thick. Through her musings on everything from racial healthcare disparities to beauty standards to Miley Cyrus twerking at the VMAs, McMillan Cotton shines a light on the particular intersection of Black womanhood. There's so much to mull over here within such a short span of pages—I'd like to go back in with a fine tooth comb, poring over the footnotes and referential texts I missed during my initial read.
At times the writing is so referential that it was kind of difficult for me to comprehend. Guess I'm just not that pop-culture savvy (and usually too lazy to check out footnotes).
Overall though, definitely an anti-racist book worth reading. If you liked "Hood Feminism," you'll like this one too.
