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we do lots of pre-litigation depositions at my job but today is my first real deposition. i will do fine but litigation sucks and i do not like it :)
SO! i will instead start today by gassing myself up a lil my end-of-year writing thread. proud of it because i have a FT job!
SO! i will instead start today by gassing myself up a lil my end-of-year writing thread. proud of it because i have a FT job!
for @theappeal, i wrote about how a former law clerk testified before congress about the hellish year she spent being sexually harassed by a revered, liberal appellate judge, and how elite law schools often know theyâre feeding students to abusive bosses. https://theappeal.org/federal-judge-sexual-misconduct/
for @curaffairs, a silly blog post begging warren voters to stop whining. march 2020. a lifetime ago. bless! https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/a-stern-letter-from-the-desk-of-vanessa-a-bee
for @inthesetimesmag, i wrote about how capitalism does not foster innovation, but socialism has the ingredients to, which might have guaranteed us a covid-19 vaccine much much earlier. https://inthesetimes.com/features/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-capitalism-socialism-innovation.html
for @thenation, i wrote about how HUD and FEMA are too slow to respond to disasters, despite their predictability â an unacceptable problem during a global pandemic. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hud-fema-renters-natural-disaster/
for @newrepublic, i went to oakland to write about a doggy daycare that saved itself by becoming a workers coop after its rich owner decided to cash out. https://newrepublic.com/article/157386/quiet-workplace-revolution-shadow-silicon-valley
in @curaffairs, i published a version of an excerpt from my BOOK (more on that later) about my first summer in america â age 13, 2002, reno â and trying to grasp this strange new culture. also: discovering trailers and the toxic language around them. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/06/smells-like-team-spirit
in @GuernicaMag, i published a very, very personal essay about years of trying to find a home in my black-skinned body in a west whose eurocentricism poisoned not just kids, but their mothers, doctors, and role models. https://www.guernicamag.com/you-have-to-suffer/
which brings me to my BOOK DEAL! my most intense writing and editing i did in 2020 lives in my laptop â 60k words of it, still more to go â but i am proudest of this work, and hope you and others will like it. or at least, that parul sehgal wonât pan it in the nyt. oh god. https://twitter.com/vanessa_abee/status/1331639863641329665
for @theintercept, i wrote that bidenâs appointment to lead HUD does not have the experience necessary â a reminder that the white house too rarely cares about housing, and also that biden is clearly just shifting black faces around a deck. ew. https://theintercept.com/2020/12/09/biden-hud-marcia-fudge/
for @curaffairs, i interviewed @ColeStangler about the french BLM protests, the countryâs racism, and its growing police state. ( http://patreon.com/posts/44891430 .)
got one more podcast thing coming out this week, then we are fucking DONE with 2020!
