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Today in mic drops, academic anthologies edition: “the story it unearths is seldom the one certain people wanted to create.”

#grad school

“I don’t hate football, I get why it’s fun, it just kind of propagates the ideology of physical dominance, and the economic subjugation of the working poor, plus the concussions, it should be illegal, LOL.” - Rebecca Bunch

#super bowl

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America, 2017

Charles F. Feeney, who started Atlantic Philanthropies, is a man who spent most of his life avoiding the spotlight.

“You can only wear one pair of pants at a time.”

"Words that are not backed up by life lose their weight" Havel wrote, "which means that words can be silenced in two ways: either you ascribe such weight to them that no one dares utter them aloud, or you take away any weight they might have, and they turn into air."

Lenin's Tomb, David Remnick

2016: A Reckoning

This is navel gazing but it’s also my blog, so I don’t care.

2016 taught me that when people show you who they are, you have to believe them. I learned that people I love very much are blatantly racist and deeply misogynist, and in 2017 I will act towards them accordingly.

2016 reminded me nearly every day that neither grief nor joy are zero-sum games, and that I deeply loathe how publicly performative each can be.

I recognized for the first time how true some broad generalizations are, and started to watch how people my age are bowing to those stereotypes, growing into them without questioning what they mean. We can all be better, but I think 2016 showed that many don’t want to be.

Code-switching applies to class, too.

All of that being said, my personal score sheet for 2016 reads well enough: promotion, check; half marathon, check; grad school “success”, check; new hobbies, check; travel, check; strong friendships, check; a long-term relationship with a true partner, check.

January 1 is just a day on the calendar and 2016 has cast a long shadow, but the idea of a new year is nice nonetheless.

#well that was depressing #2016

2016, as told by other people’s dogs.

On 27

I turn 27 today, and I spent the morning with my family and I had ice cream cake for breakfast and I played with my cat who is fourteen and who I really, really hope is immortal.

I spent the afternoon driving to the Minneapolis airport with my sister; we were both home for our cousin’s wedding last night, and she needed to catch her flight to Dallas and I mine back to DC.

Right now, I’m sitting at my gate waiting for my flight, and for the first time in a long time I feel like I have just as much in common with the people I’m leaving behind as the people to whom I’m going back.

For the past year, no question has captivated journalists and pundits more than this one: Why do the people supporting Donald Trump support Donald Trum ...

Liberal condescension to poor people has annoyed me more than usual lately, so this guy really spoke to me.