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Book cover for The Best Girls
The grown-ups talked now about school fees. I had just entered the seventh grade, and my tuition was a burden.
Sangeetha
I know it's fiction, but this reminds me of the discussion of education in "Poor Economics" and how instead of giving all children and equal education, parents often put all of their eggs in one basket. That is, they'll prioritize educating one child to save on expenses, and typically this is the eldest male child.
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Ocean Vuong
“I miss you more than I remember you.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Tressie McMillan Cottom
“But if I believe that I can become beautiful, I become an economic subject. My desire becomes a marker.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

Tressie McMillan Cottom
“Sisters weren’t really angry about my breakdown of just how dangerous Miley Cyrus’s performance on a televised award show actually was. They weren’t exactly angry that I pointed out the size and shape of the black woman dancers behind her. What many black women were angry about was how I located myself in what I’d written. I said, blithely as a matter of observable fact, that I am unattractive. Because I am unattractive, the argument went, I have a particular kind of experience of beauty, race, racism, and interacting with what we might call the white gaze.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

Jia Tolentino
“Beauty work is labeled “self-care” to make it sound progressive”
Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Tressie McMillan Cottom
“Beauty is not good capital. I compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

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