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Dislikes: badly scented candles and the general concept of emails. This Libran introvert-turned-extrovert is basically allergic to spring (trees, plants, dander), roasts her own peanuts, recently got a guitar after one lesson 30 years ago, paints as a pandemic hobby, and doesn’t do resolutions (her 2021 lesson is, “Love those who love you.”) Likes: REI and Smartwool leggings, Dolly Parton, Hallmark Christmas movies, Peloton, turmeric beverages, three wheelers, Target, her Jura coffee machine.
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In her non-existent free time, McMillan Cottom co-hosts the Webby-Award nominated Black feminist podcast of your dreams, Hear to Slay, with Roxane Gay and writes the newsletter Essaying for “people who ruin movies for their friends.” She told Gay for Guernica that her life’s work was to “raise really good hell for those who cannot.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and as she’s delighted to say, she has appeared on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah three times. McMillan Cottom is an associate professor in the iSchool at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, senior research fellow at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (UNC), faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Her critically acclaimed 2016 book on for-profit colleges (she once was a recruiter for two of them), Lower Ed, was based on dissertation research for her PhD from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School in sociology. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s much-lauded Thick(The New Press), eight incisive essays about navigating the world as a Black woman, was a National Book Award nonfiction finalist, won the Brooklyn Public Library’s 2019 Literary Prize, and was named one of Lit Hub’s top 10 essay collections of the decade. It is co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President at Clark University.Currently in its 15th printing, Dr. This event part of the African American Intellectual Culture Series. This is not a ticketed event, but please arrive early for the best seating. Admission is free and open to the public. Copies of Thick and Lower Ed will be available for purchase at the Clark University bookstore and at the event. A book signing will follow immediately after the conversation. A powerful presence on Twitter, McMillan Cottom also co-hosts Hear to Slay with Roxane Gay, a podcast with an intersectional perspective on celebrity, culture, politics, art, life and love.
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In 2017, she published Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. Called “the author you need to read now” by the Chicago Tribune, her work has been featured by the Washington Post, NPR’s Fresh Air, The Daily Show, the New York Times, Slate, and The Atlantic, among others. McMillan Cottom is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. In her most recent book, Thick and Other Essays, on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom uses her characteristic melding of humor and irreverence, sociological expertise and deep cultural critique to show “precisely how the political, the social, and the personal are almost always one and the same.” Join us as McMillan Cottom brings her distinctive voice to issues of race, gender, power, and other themes in this conversation facilitated by Clark University’s Toby Sisson (Studio Art).