People have increasing anxiety about their job security because of the increasing deregulations of neoliberalism and the precarization of work, and LinkedIn’s promises of endorsements and networking are an inadequate balm to this anxiety. She points to LinkedIn as an exemplar of the promises that technology fails to meet. Neoliberal capitalism celebrates competence and productivity, shifting the critique from structural questions to one of individual hard work and competence. In the bestselling tradition of bell hooks and Roxane Gay, McMillan Cottoms freshman collection illuminates a particular trait of her tribe: being thick. Thick then begins to examine the struggles facing Black women writers. She uses this moment to reflect on the reality that for the first time in her life, she can afford all of the lifestyle perks of a middle-class person. Thick is a necessary work and a reminder that Tressie McMillan Cottom is one of the finest public intellectuals writing today.' Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist 'Thick is gorgeous, incisive, and hard. Cottom delivers this so eloquently that I knew this was a book I would finish. She reflects on this desire for competence from a freezing house in Virginia because she has forgotten to pay her bill. She doesn’t dream about a husband, or a wedding, or babies but she fantasizes about the sound of high heels clicking on the floor as she walks purposefully with a briefcase, embodying competence. As a child, McMillan Cottom dreams of being competent.
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