@TheEmmapreneur@Katie_Navi Yes, TAG in NH starting in the early eighties, another student and I were the first ones selected. I was 7 or 8. Testing with those tan headphones through beeps, the cards with symbols, the far off, slightly darkened room in the school for the testing. It seemed to take weeks.
While it's personally dispiriting to see your work targeted in bad faith, what's more distressing to me is that the lives of women of color I've written about are being diminished and erased in a political moment in which we need their stories most.
The College Board removing Ta-Nehisi Coates from the AP African American studies course only validates everything he was saying in Between the World and Me.
@mhdksafa Iโve presented informally on the value of a 4-yr liberal arts degree. Critical thinking, communication, multiple perspectives. The occupation has been seriously devalued, causing a reciprocal kind of devaluing from within.
"The Gaslighting Method of Destroying Democracy: appoint the most vulgar person there is, with the most cynical attitudes there are, which stand in direct and diametrical opposition to the democratic job theyโre supposed to do."https://t.co/UbIWPnrgyu
@KillerMartinis My college-aged daughter was a victim last summerโฆscary stuff and she was fortunate to have good friends to help her. Hope all turns out ok. (Iโm also a professor and assign your book to my first year students - they love it and it becomes the nucleus of our course. So thanks!)
Kitty, turning to me after googling โbiggest judge bungholes in the history of the universe.โ We already knew the answer. #catsjudgingthesupremecourt
@AoDespair I keep a version saved and read it once in a while, itโs brilliant and true and awful, and itโs disgusting that heโs still orbiting around like a bully slug. https://t.co/O7oImJkGxq