Yes, I was serious.

I just read these out loud to my boyfriend (while laughing!) and he didn’t realise any of them were jokes and is really genuinely impressed with Taylor Swift right now.

please read all of Demi Adejuyigbe’s tweets about last night’s Taylor Swift show ( a small sampling below)

“Frankie and Grace” was appointment tv here at Casa Randandy. The minute we came home from the early bird we’d put up some milk for Ovaltine and settle in. JK. It was so much fun and the cast is timeless. They’re aging like fine wine.

I’ve never understood this focus on resilience in poor communities. Of course these people are resilient. They have to be. People who aren’t don’t make it or, if they do, struggle with issues like addiction. The issue isn’t resilience, it’s lack of concrete resources especially money. Once the concrete issues are…

This is awesome and so accurate. The popularity of research into “resilience” has gotten a ton of traction in recent years, but the truth is it shakes out to be another way to blame cycles of poverty on impoverished individuals rather than the institutions and power dynamics holding them back in the first place.