Workingclassteacher
@juliegw.bsky.social
Working-class sociologist. I write about class, white supremacy, and sociological things. I love flowers.
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been thinking about this and glad it's being explored in the media
For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.
Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts
For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.
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April 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
been thinking about this and glad it's being explored in the media
Raging at each other instead of the machine.
March 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Raging at each other instead of the machine.
It's one thing to shit on nonviolence but pointless if you're not going to do any actual violence. Hawk talk is as American as apple pie. Americans love war.
March 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's one thing to shit on nonviolence but pointless if you're not going to do any actual violence. Hawk talk is as American as apple pie. Americans love war.
White dude mama's boys say this with their whole chest.
March 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
White dude mama's boys say this with their whole chest.
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” Jean-Paul Sartre
March 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” Jean-Paul Sartre
There is a FOMO element to hyperconsumption and capitalism. That's how corporations invented and made Black Friday a cultural norm that feels like a tradition.
February 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
There is a FOMO element to hyperconsumption and capitalism. That's how corporations invented and made Black Friday a cultural norm that feels like a tradition.
Mao led by ideology. Similarly, DOGE and MAGA are ideological true believers who think they are creating a bureaucracy-free nirvana. Run the United States like a private business. Run the United States into the ground.
February 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Mao led by ideology. Similarly, DOGE and MAGA are ideological true believers who think they are creating a bureaucracy-free nirvana. Run the United States like a private business. Run the United States into the ground.
Here to discomfort the comfortable.
February 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Here to discomfort the comfortable.
In search of boring, ordinary people like me.
February 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In search of boring, ordinary people like me.
This is what James Baldwin means when he says that, “there is no white community.” Hate and competition are the frame.
From white families to the larger group, white folk hate each other and anyone who looks like they're getting something that they think they don't deserve.
From white families to the larger group, white folk hate each other and anyone who looks like they're getting something that they think they don't deserve.
February 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is what James Baldwin means when he says that, “there is no white community.” Hate and competition are the frame.
From white families to the larger group, white folk hate each other and anyone who looks like they're getting something that they think they don't deserve.
From white families to the larger group, white folk hate each other and anyone who looks like they're getting something that they think they don't deserve.
