Juneteenth and a Dream Deferred
Largely unknown to the overall U.S. population, Juneteenth is the most popular annual celebration of emancipation from slavery in the United States and celebrated each year on... Read More
Choosing Not to Go Into Debt for College
Nicole Brown wrote the following after reading, and being so affected by, last month’s (May 2016) Classism Exposed blog post on the possibility that students are deciding not to... Read More
Broke vs. “Broke”: Bothered by Humble Brags
This summer, I had a “stay-cation,” meaning I stayed put in DC where I moved last year to attend grad school. My “stay-cation” was awful,... Read More
Class & My Identity as a Woman of African Descent
Class was a confusing issue for me. Despite that, I never doubted for a moment that my race intersected with my class in a profound... Read More
Thoughts about Thanksgiving (& -isms we may encounter at the table!)
After listening to a NPR segment about Thanksgiving and some anxiety that this very social holiday brings up for folks, I realized that this year... Read More
Who Gets Plowed in New York?
After the first huge snow storm on December 26, my family was asking two questions: a) where are the damn snowplows in our Brooklyn neighborhood?;... Read More
Responding to Verbal Classism
When I hear a classist put-down, I feel like Derek Zoolander in the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander, tongue-tied and unable to come up with a... Read More