Dear Troublemakers, Ohhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeee was this a week, y’all. When I walked into the living room Sunday night and turned on the tv and decided to keep watching the Oscars when Chris Rock walked onstage, I was not prepared. I was not prepared! But I am so glad you opened up this here newsletter so we could talk all things OSCARS!
Thank you so much for talking about the other parts of the Oscars! Those are the things I have been trying to focus on as well and they are so important. So THANK YOU! Sidenote, I LOVE Call the Midwife, for a little while after watching it, I thought that is what I should do as a career.
Adam Grant, who I usually appreciate, doubled down on his right to be part of the conversation about what happened. I feel like it would have been better for him to shine a light on a Black psychologist’s insight rather than puff his chest and keep talking. Right?
Which segways to the question I’ve had for a while-- is there such thing as a universal human experience? My first reaction is no- bc culture/ethnicity/economic/ability/family etc makes our experiences so different. Does that ring true? Is there some event in human existence that we can all speak to? I don’t know.
Thank you so much for talking about the other parts of the Oscars! Those are the things I have been trying to focus on as well and they are so important. So THANK YOU! Sidenote, I LOVE Call the Midwife, for a little while after watching it, I thought that is what I should do as a career.
The interview with Andre Henry was fabulous. And affirming. I just kept wanting to say...what he said or what she said. Thank you for that.
I had ordered the book the day it came out. I found it actually does deal with the "hard pills to swallow" in ways other books do not.
And it IS indeed so draining to talk about race if you are black!
Has anyone read Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s take on this? I think he was spot on!
Yes to all this!
Adam Grant, who I usually appreciate, doubled down on his right to be part of the conversation about what happened. I feel like it would have been better for him to shine a light on a Black psychologist’s insight rather than puff his chest and keep talking. Right?
Which segways to the question I’ve had for a while-- is there such thing as a universal human experience? My first reaction is no- bc culture/ethnicity/economic/ability/family etc makes our experiences so different. Does that ring true? Is there some event in human existence that we can all speak to? I don’t know.
Have a great weekend y’all ❤️