I havenāt been able to put this book down. Itās been helping me internalize my experience as a black woman in America. Hereās one of my favorite quotes from Bell Hooks about Freedom: āSocial equality that grants all humans the opportunity to shape their destinies in the most healthy and communally productive way can only be a complete reality when our world is no longer racist or sexistāĀ
Read this in my Masters' Program & the practical + theoretical applications in tech forward spaces are extraordinarily important as the world continues to be more technologically focused.
this jacobin piece changed my perspective on how i think about work and a career.
it really breaks down the ādo what you loveā mindset and reframes work as a necessary act instead of something that should give you personal gratification.
would recommend this read to anyone, but especially people who maybe are attracted to academics or who define a lot of their worth in professional success and the idea that they are ādoing what you loveā!!
"In typography,Ā riversĀ (orĀ rivers of white) are gaps in typesetting which appear to run through a paragraph of text due to a coincidental alignment of spaces."
