Thick: And Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Brilliant, unapologetic, and not here for it.
you're tired of making yourself easier for other people to digest
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McMillan Cottom writes like someone who has decided, finally and irrevocably, that she will not explain herself to anyone. These essays are formally sharp, politically precise, and genuinely funny — a combination that is itself the argument. She writes about race, bodies, institutions, and the violence of respectability politics with a wit that refuses to perform legibility for anyone who hasn't earned it. Thick is Juneteenth energy in essay form: we are still here, we are not shrinking, and we find you exhausting. The defiance IS the joy.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Themes
- Defiant Joy
