Tressie McMillan Cottom Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tressie McMillan Cottom

In her recent book, “Easy Beauty,” Jones explores beauty in its many, many forms. She thinks about what beauty standards mean, in a world that completely excludes disabled bodies, like her own, from the realm of envy and desire.

Tressie McMillan Cottom

RT @NathanBransford: The conviction at the heart of Alice Sebold's "Lucky" is overturned, @KieseLaymon and @tressiemcphd on revision in art…

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RT @NotNikyatu: Can’t stop thinking about this excerpt from Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom: “schizophrenics in India and Ghana hear voice…

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Nothing has effed me up this good in awhile. A real treat to get lost in fiction for the first time in maybe a decade. (Cheers to ⁦@alex_segura⁩ for the Twitter recommendation & to me for the impulse buy.) "The Violence: A Novel" by Delilah S. Dawson https://t.co/uco4gTVBhA https://t.co/HXZ8bc4tLO

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Circling back after finishing, as promised. Jodi Taylor's "The Nothing Girl" series and Ellery Adams' "Secret, Book and Scone Society". Both pretty cozy, the latter officially billed as a "Southern cozy mystery". The former is more British cozy romance.

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It sounds like an odd aside but I want to share this book (by my friend but that is irrelevant): The Bricks before Brown -- The Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican Americans' Struggle for Educational Equality by Marisela Martinez-Cola. https://t.co/c4aQ7Ddd2N

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We Need to Talk About Rural Gentrification: A review of “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” by Adrian Shirk | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/166201/need-talk-rural-gentrification-heaven-place-earth-book-review?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3wDSvV5O6xl1LEUdOJ7nWYxNVpk5XN4_dzrY23J06jw1VVql1DiR-DgVY#Echobox=1650979911

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Paul Krugman picking up on some of other folk economics of recent history. His point that elites pick up these ideas to leverage their ideological positions is exactly ⁦@asociologist⁩ point in his recent article (cited in my NL.) https://t.co/oHuhxBWCS9

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I don’t ask for much. Make me laugh and think, preferably while giving me unbelievably compelling characters in a strong, unpretentious voice. Geez. Greg Marshall’s “Leg” is absolutely delightful. Truly funny for anyone with a decent appreciation of the absurd.

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Upcoming @unc_citap events. First up is @victorerikray on his new book, "On Critical Race Theory", then @nancyleong on her book "Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality". RSVP: https://t.co/f9p6hRaQkZ https://t.co/C4iixdNAbE