Sierra Hensley > Recent Status Updates

Unfortunately it’s a terrible beautiful book and of course it’s awful and I’m a big fan and I don’t want to finish it because it’s too long and yet I must. I must push through and finish this book. It’s terrible. Big fan. Big hater. I love it.

HOW AM I ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH UGHHHH

Now that im more into this book, im liking it a lot more than I thought I was going to - I’m always looking for better ways to explain to my social justice students that working toward progress is never that exclusive or rigid and I think this is gonna be helpful in relaying that in a way that makes more sense

An odd read I’ve been trying to sit with - the random slug smut really threw me im ngl - like I get what they were tryna do but at the end of the day slug smut is still wild I mean surely there were other ways to reach your point - it should be known this is an audiobook anywho we’ll see if I finish this one

Really need to get back to this book and finish it

“Status became a kind of substitute for identity.” -in reference to American materialism

“Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he long cherished or a privelage he has long possessed that he is set free- he has set himself free- for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”

Sighhhhh I fear Baldwin would be very disappointed in America rn

Ugh ugh ugh such an amazing writer obviously but I’ve mainly known her for her feminist theory work- so I’ve been really loving owning a physical copy of this book and being able to slowly make my way through its big old contents

lol I started ANOTHER book whoopsies

The big boss (my therapist) told me I gotta read so I suppose I better get on it before next appointment

Loving this so far - a very accessible read - definitely relevant lol- one I feel like I gotta read twice and take notes