Depends on the field. I haven’t (or at least I have once but found out later that they hadn’t meant to). Yet in the legal field, it’s common enough for employers to ask for transcripts. I worked public interest jobs that mostly don’t care, but a lot of firms and definitely judicial clerkships will want that info.

All this to say Beyonce is to black feminism what Madonna is to white feminism. Important and vaild, but not as important as people want it to be, worthy of discussion, but also flawed.

I was really excited about the return of the banana clip, but they’re terribly made now. I could stuff my 3 heads worth of hair into any one of the old school types. These new ones are so tiny.

That’s fascinating. It did it’s job then! I’m still making my way through it and it helps that the writing is good. But the footnotes and twisting narratives aren’t as thoughtfully used as I feel they could be. And I’ve read a fair amount of short fiction that has accomplished what this is going for with much less…

Accepting that it’s a comics story, I know that BP gets into all sorts of crazy high jinks. But I’m amused by the idea of a BP just sitting around bored out of their mind because all is well with Wakanda. And then he dons the PB persona to do the most mundane of tasks.

I think you are 100% right. I wouldn’t say it’s dumb so much as it’s really flawed. This is where not having read the comics really hurt—I had so many questions.

You know Zoe Saldana has similarly been candid about her desire to have that Nina Simone story told and I do believe her and Oyelowo here. Yet, I think it still misses the fact that we have to reflect on whether we are the right ones to tell that story or whether it’s even beneficial to our goals that the story be…

You’re right about the narrow focus of the mystery. I kinda liked that you had to get into this dude’s head (while understandably trying to ignore said nerd getting worked up). But its such a fragile premise—I guess that’s why the storytelling on that front is so lowest common denominator. For the pop culture…

The book was so painfully white and dude-centric. Even outside of the milquetoast protagonist, that was the hardest part of reading it. I went along for the ride of the nostalgia because I was really more invested in the puzzle part of the story, but I couldn’t fully take the pop culture homage seriously because of…

I thought the characters were definitely mediocre, but I did like the unfolding of the mystery in the story and the connection between the nostalgia and the virtual world. I was a couple of years shy of being the prime nostalgia audience but I appreciated the effort of it. I don’t know anything about Reddit so maybe…

I loved that book. I’m reading House of Leaves right now and it’s just not doing it for me after reading Oscar Wao. I liked RPO but recognize its variety of problems. Those books are like 2 different tales of toxic masculinity—one that works and one that kind of makes things worse.

I almost picked up Children of Blood and Bone yesterday and then didn’t because I just cannot add another book to my pile right now. But it’s definitely on the list.

Yes, referring to “my point” in my comment above about what happens in the cities I have lived in. I wasn’t talking about you or your experience nor did I ever claim to be.

I can’t decide if I’m going to see Ready Player One. I read and enjoyed the book despite its terrible protagonist so maybe it’d be really cool to see it come to life if the worldbuilding is good.

When I saw it with my dad, he was like ‘why did they put it there?’ It was in kind of a weird spot right off the lobby in a hallway. The line to stop in front of it was wrapped around the lobby. You could do a quick walk-by but if you wanted to take a picture or get close you had to wait. I think because Barack’s…

I said that a thing that’s happened to you hasn’t been the norm in my communities because of its unique structure. Not sure why you think it negates your experience.

That’s pretty bold calling falsehood on a point about my experience. Your experience is your own, but in my communities, people don’t generally have that expectation. Perhaps it’s your perception of what women do and don’t do based on that particular experience that’s the issue. That, on the other hand, I see all the…

I have the opposite reaction where I can’t quite stop seeing him as Reggie on All My Children and thus think about what a nice boy he is.

Well, yes. My sister’s trifling ex-husband was one of them. But my point is more that nobody insists on anyone having a car to pick them up because no one has a car. That’s the mainstream expectation in cities where a large percentage of people don’t drive.

I don’t have a sense of this being a gendered issue because I’ve mostly lived in cities where the majority of people don’t have cars (or if they do, they don’t use them regularly). It seems whatever the gender, it may be a stand-in for financial status. But when it’s explained practically why one does or doesn’t have…