A senior wm colleague asked me how things are going. In a rare case of honesty, I told him and you can imagine what I said. His response: "Oh wow. Can't you take a vacation?" Oh. Sure. Where is the vacation from capitalist overwork and white supremacy, again?
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Replying to @lorgia_pena
All of the privilege. Not only where am I going to go, but who is paying for it? But really...where is the magical land immune from this shit? Please, take me there. LMAO.
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Replying to @jmjafrx
My first semester at Harvard a colleague asked me where I summered? I had never heard that as a verb.
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Replying to @lorgia_pena
Lol!! My first semester at JHU a senior coll asked me what my plans for break were. I said something about workworkwork. They responded with their villa in Italy. I was like...ohhhh. That's what you meant?

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Replying to @jmjafrx @lorgia_pena
This is like the gotcha wine-ordering question at academic dinners. I went to Berkeley as an undergrad. I learned all about wine (other than gallo) b/c my college friends wanted free alcohol and so we would all go to Napa for free tasting. These questions are there to see if you
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Have passed some invisible line of you are like us...
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And I barely drink b/c Asian no tolerance gene. But I can order wine b/c of my BIPOC college friends wanting free booze.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @lorgia_pena
I....this is so real it is painful. I've started to just order a cocktail in retaliation because I'm fed up with the petty academic aristocracy mind games. Just give me the dark liquor and let me be the stereotype.pic.twitter.com/87adIHHwbF
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It is such a form of know your place aggression b/c they feel all the things b/c you can order wine and know a bunch about food (bro & family have worked in restaurants) or have a clue about clothes & brands (retail worker 4ever from high school to after college).
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