5/12/2023 0 Comments Thick essays![]() ![]() ![]() McMillan Cottom is far more accomplished than I could ever hope to be. As a Ph.D.- carrying university professor who has written for the likes of The Atlantic and The New York Times and hosts a podcast with Roxane Gay. Is this allowed? Are we, as Black women writers, allowed to see each other and write to and about each other this plainly?ĭon’t get me wrong, I don’t presume to be on the same level as 2020 MacArthur Fellow Dr. And, as I delved deeper into the book, I couldn’t help asking myself: Tressie McMillan Cottom in the opening pages of THICK, something instantly felt different about the reading experience. This contortion act is a skill that I’ve had a lifetime to hone, though I know I’m not the only one.īut, as I oriented myself to the voice of author Dr. In the vast majority of stories served up to me as “classics” and “essentials” over the years, I’ve had to contort my reality to fit that of the traditional (read: not Black and not female) narrator. ![]() Nothing prepared me to be so directly acknowledged and addressed in a text. When I started reading THICK: And Other Essays, I had to keep putting it down to compose myself. ![]()
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