This moment of global inequality demands incompetent subjects. The status quo and ever-intensifying versions of it require incompetent consumers who … - Tressie McMillan Cottom

In one sense, it seems obvious why credentials matter. Median weekly earnings for full-time workers with a master’s degree are $1,380, while someone with only a high school diploma can expect to earn just under $700/week.

Perhaps our planet is for learning to appreciate the extraordinary wonder of life that surrounds even our suffering, and to say Yes, if through the thickest of tears. — Alice Walker, from the foreword to Zora Neale
Hurston’s Barracoon

I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me.