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"I Don't Have To Look Good. I'm An Intellectual!"

"I Don't Have To Look Good. I'm An Intellectual!"

Black woman drag + Filming "Red Table Talk" + Doing it for the culture + More Dispatches from White Lady Camp

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First, thank you for all of your amazing reflections on social class and leisure time in our latest Open Discussion Thread. A few that really stood out for me:

What this essay made me think about was moving to NY in my early 30s, I was making a lot of money and worked at a law firm full of other white women who told me what I should be spending my money …

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