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Attorney, BRCA awareness advocate. Words in NYT Opinion, NPR, O Magazine, ZORA, Huffington Post, Washington Post and others. Contact: erika.stallings @gmail .com
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The fact that the CEO of GoFundMe wrote an op/ed saying we are in a major crisis is alarming. Because imagine what type of data he has access to
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Does anyone else just have moments where the full weight of the realization that the federal government has abandoned us during a pandemic hits you?
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I need an article on why so many doctors want to be social media influencers to the point where they undermine their credibility as medical professionals
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Is there a polite way to ask "what is the purpose of this meeting and why do I need to be included?"
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Free SNL skit idea: someone wearing a “I am my ancestors’ wildest dream” gets transported back to the past and gets absolutely roasted for being so corny
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398 students incurring $40 million in student debt shows how out of control the costs of college have gotten.
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Black parents love calling you in the middle of the day during the week and asking if you’re at work. It’s 2pm on a Tuesday what do you think I’m doing?!
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but as a Black employee you should be documenting everything that goes down at the job—both good and bad
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I have this theory that Black employees are forced to switch jobs more often due to bias, lack of opportunities for growth, overt racism, etc but I wish I could find data on this
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Wondering how much the angry BW stereotype in the office is due to the fact that BW are often the only ones willing to speak up and state the plain truth
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Maybe I am overthinking it but the fact that a mass movement that raised $90 million (likely more than that but it's what we know of) produced no discernible change for Black individuals feels like something we should be talking about more
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The Tory Lanez trial has me depressed about Black media and overall media literacy. The fact that it's been a white reporter really breaking down all the misinformation online is something
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Thinking about how the “I’m not one of your little friends” style of Black parenting gets complicated when the child has to provide financial support to the parent
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Black people don’t get to rest even in death. Their deaths become teachable moments for society
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I'm sitting in a cafe listening to this mom offer to pay her daughter's living expenses for the next 8 months so she can try and launch her career as a writer. Gotta imagine this is why the journalism/writing industry partially looks the way it does.
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I was saving money the first half of the pandemic but after June my “keep my sanity” spending skyrocketed
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I honestly believe the media pushed the “Blacks don’t want the vaccine” narrative as a way to distract from the racial disparities we’ve seen in the vaccine rollout
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The way Black families refuse to respect personal boundaries is wild to me. And I really suspect this is something that disproportionately impacts Black women
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Kanye knows all the right buzzwords to hit to get Black folks riled up about the Kardashians
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IVF is for the privileged which is why you see the GOP scrambling. The tension between the GOP have and the GOP have nots is gonna be interesting to see
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Shaun King will keep scamming because white liberals are too afraid of being called racist if they critique him. That’s the wildest thing about racism—it blocks opportunities but also allows scams to flourish
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Why is everyone so eager to send LeVar into what’s clearly a toxic environment/situation?
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1 in 512 Americans have died of COVID. Unbelievable number.
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Beyoncé's music is actually good but the discourse around it is insufferable
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AOC is also the result of post 2014 activism where aesthetics/vibes matter more than actual work and results but that’s a convo for another day
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This is unhinged behavior. At least tweet from a burner!
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The fact that ThredUp had to tell y’all to stop sending Shein is tragic
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Watching Soul Food as an adult you really see that Teri was the victim and the family was trash
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Kate is alive (I don't think her sister would be on vacation if she wasn't) but I do think she walked out because she got fed up with the cheating and the palace is scrambling
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Four years since George Floyd and we've gone backwards
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No one wants activists to be poor or suffer but it’s suspicious that no one can give a real accounting of the money raised, families impacted by police violence are homeless and homegirl has 4 properties
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A lot of professional men use “mentoring” as a way to meet their next side chick. This tweet will self destruct after 24 hours lol
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Someone recently said to me that upper middle class Black people think being mistaken for a poor Black person is why they experience racism which leads to them to hold contempt for poor Black people
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I see editors in chief resigning. I sincerely hope that these institutions don’t rush to hire a black woman without making sure that the company had worked to address the larger problems. Otherwise it’s just a glass cliff situation
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Also Dr Dre having a philanthropic award is something else
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Everyone is upset about that activism reality TV show competition but it seems like the natural end result of everything that’s been happening since 2014. Blue Vest doing ads for Doritos. Activists with real estate portfolios. Activists signing deals with major talent agencies
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Someone pls send Rihanna a raven telling her that Shaun King is a scammer
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Hood Healer implying slavery didn’t happen lol. So many children were left behind.
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Meghann Cuniff's work is very good but it says a LOT about the state of Black media that a WW journalist ended up getting a come up off the trial
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“You thought my wildest dream was you to walk around in brunch boots? Lmaoooo”
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America is just one giant GoFundMe at this point
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Twitter isn’t the best place for complex convos but putting aside the amount of $$$ raised, BLM was arguably the one of the largest social movements in the past decade and Black folks saw…nothing as a result
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I just want one of these “death of the girlboss” articles to engage with the racial aspect of the concept. Just one!
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NYT and WaPo literally walked right into the trap
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I worry critical thinking is dead because y'all really think a casino is gonna let a single individual run up a $50 million debt?
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I’m in disbelief that people think we can talented tenth our way out of this
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We’re gonna have a fully staffed government again. Trump left like half of the government vacant
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DEI is a wrap. Hope y’all are ready for the new world
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I don’t believe that recruiter story actually happened. She was trying to drum up business for her coaching service and it back fired
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Anyway the other side is being very loud about what they are planning. Black people keep your head on a swivel. Because "DEI" really means Black people in corporate jobs period
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Why are Jordans always the go to item for people who want to criticize how Black people spend money?
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I have a folder for “praise” and a folder for “shade”. It’s important to be able to have this stuff written down or archived for reviews or if you need to negotiate an exit/severance package
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I mean I think about the pandemic all day and am constantly figuring out how to best be of service but sometimes I’ll just be reading or drinking a glass of wine and the full weight of this moments hits me
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Before we lose this app I hope we can have a conversation about how white liberal guilt in Hollywood has led to a lot of half baked, underwritten Black projects being projected
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“Would you like to join the diversity and inclusion committee?”
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Government really told all of us thoughts and prayers
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We really need to stop feeding the myth that you have as much control over your career as you think you have. There’s a lot of factors that are outside of your control
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The male ancestors probably would be hype that their Black male descendants were dating white women though
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Scammers use a combination of deflection and drowning you in irrelevant information. You have to be sharp and focused to cut through it
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The discourse on here about the Tory Lanez trial is downright scary. Some people don’t even seem to know that the state brings these kind of charges, not the individual victim
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Normalize not having contact with family members who are problematic and harmful!
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I suspect there’s 2 reasons for this: 1.
BW are expected to mule for their families no matter how they are treated and 2. A lot of Black parents are emotionally immature and do not know how to parent their adult children. They’re stuck in a dynamic where their child is a kid
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It's wild to me that people are applauding police and elected officials for taking a knee when Kaepernick lost his entire career for the same action
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And if things go left at a job don’t be afraid to consult with an attorney. You’d be surprised how many people get a settlement to set themselves up comfortably after some racial nonsense has gone down
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My mom told my aunt that I’m only allowing vaccinated individuals at my wedding next week and my aunt’s response was “when did she decide she gets to play God?” 🙃🙃🙃
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There’s a specific category of scam behavior that flourishes due to the intersection of 1. Black people rooting for everyone Black and 2. White people being afraid they will be labeled racist if they call it out
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I’m over here reflecting on my resume and there’s at least 2 jobs I didn’t want to leave but I felt like I had no choice but to leave given the lack of opportunities and sponsorship
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This is also connected to toxic positivity in a way. Whole project is going off the rails but no one wants to speak up
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I think people are forgetting how hard the past year was for Black communities which is what I think is driving some of the negative feelings about making Juneteenth a national holiday
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Finally wrote a piece about something that’s been on my mind for a while: the long term impact of dealings with racism at work:
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What does that say about the overall condition/position of Black people in this country?
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Someone said Donald Glover was Jeremy O Harris’ tether and I fell out laughing on the floor
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I have a theory Black employees need to be in environments where the talent bar is very high. Because if you are demonstrably smarter and more credentialed than your white peers you will be resented and punished
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And also not everything needs to be shared with the timeline or social media
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All of this feels like people getting their lick back for BLM/summer 2020
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Someone needs to write the definitive examination of how pseudoscience took hold in our society. I thought in 2019 we’d be on the verge of a cure for cancer instead we’re fighting measles outbreaks
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Random but I did not know people felt so strongly about the lack of diversity on the show Friends. It never bothered me because (1) NYC is highly segregated by neighborhood and (2) in my experience most friend groups in NYC are homogenous
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The Other Black Girl was terrible. I cannot believe someone thought a plot about mind control via cocoa butter hair grease was worthy of publication
It's the end of the year and everyone's too drunk and tired to start discourse, so drop your most controversial book take now.
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And the thing is this has long lasting consequences on the ability to get promoted/being negatively perceived as a job hopper. I swear one day when someone asks me in an interview why I’m looking to move I’m going to yell “it’s the racism stupid!”
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I just learned today Garth Brooks has 9 albums that have gone diamond. 9! Not sure if I could name one of his songs. But the point is there's lots of stuff that is popular even if you don't know about it
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I keep seeing a sign saying “what police do to black men, doctors do to black women” and I understand the sentiment but BW are also victims of police brutality. Don’t erase that
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Spend enough time on r/weddingplanning and you’ll be convinced that everyone needs therapy
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Someone on TikTiok said the girls are taking too much dating advice from sex workers and that's spot on
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Didn’t expect this to resonate so much! If you’re interested in my other thoughts you can read my writing on my website:
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People who hate the monarchy but stan Meghan Markle are….weird to me. Like she married into the very thing you don’t like
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Diddy and everyone else starting a political party is chasing $$$ just like Trump was when he ran for president
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Question for BW on my timeline: if you have fibroids, when you were first diagnosed did your physician give you any practical advice about how to treat them and/or what to do?
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This feels like a parody
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One day we’re gonna talk about how people use race and marginalized status to scam
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Just remembered the governor of Virginia successfully dodged a blackface scandal.
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Random but recent observation: A lot of people use activism as a way to become social media influencers
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A consistent theme in a lot of these poorly written essays on Blackness we’ve seen this month is (1) a desire for white approval which goes in-interrogated by the author and (2) a belief that there’s only one way to be Black and that way is usually a stereotypical one
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It seems like they sabotaged just audition among other red flags. No need to him to go and host it just to prove a point to White ppl/Hollywood
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The lack of coverage from any reputable outlet aloud blogs to step in and spread misinformation. And given the topic of the trial Essence should be embarrassed it had no coverage
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