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I didn’t get the job I applied for, so I’ve been doing a lot of reading and laundry. From the library, Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Thick, the most exciting and brilliant book of essays I’ve read in a while. She’s a sociology professor and a super popular online article writer who writes with several kinds of authority at once—moral, personal, academic, in…