You pour yourself a to-go cup of yesterday’s coffee. Your dad is dead. /🧵

Nothing fits well. Nothing is on clearance. You can’t forget your psych meds, or your laptop for running your wife’s law firm, or the school shirt your 11 year old needs for his field trip, or the forms the school demanded for your 13 year old. 🧵 4/5

You get dressed in clothes with a mental health theme because it turns out you’re a school teacher. You tie your hair up in a bandana because it literally never looks good. 🧵 3/

Meep meep meep.

The alarm is going off. You open your eyes. It’s 4:50 a.m. Your 16 year old is scheduled to have knee surgery in two hours. You can hear your grandson across the house, keeping your 18 year old daughter up at wild hours. 🧵 2/

“My left stroke just went viral BE HUMBLE” (to which the class replied SIT DOWN for the one kid who just wouldn’t)

“Things people say when they’re frustrated about not being able to legally sit in the front seat of the car.”

“Here’s you a job application to the circus since you wanna be a clown”

“Little miss thinks she’s grown because she finally got microwave privileges.”

Have these kids even seen Soul Train? Who knows. They were born in the 2010s. Smart Thermostats have been around longer than they have. Nonetheless, he smiled and complied 🩷

Student is dancing down the middle of the hallway instead of lining up quietly. “Thank you but this is not Soul Train. Stand against the wall with everyone else.”

I just don’t see it as an insult. But if you’re just using drag to make them prettier, ok. There’s a fine line between empowerment by reclamation, and weaponizing identity for mockery, maybe.