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☆ Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Asks, and Answers, a Crucial Question in Her Latest Album - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Beyoncé released a genre-bending country album, “Cowboy Carter,” last week. In outlaw country tradition, “Cowboy Carter” settles scores with haters and with history. It was for the white Southern voters Nixon needed to win over amid massive resistance to Black enfranchisement. Embracing country music is a loyalty test for conservative politicians and right-wing pundits whose career ambitions align with white identity politics. Beyoncé singing country music in this political climate was always going to cause a stir.

Persons: Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter, ”, Cowboy Carter ”, —, Richard Nixon, Nixon Organizations: Southern, Today’s Republican Party Locations: growled, Nashville, Texas

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe sociologist and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom joins the hosts of “Matter of Opinion” this week to discuss the role of celebrity in politics. Could Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, with their tens of millions of fans, sway the presidential election? And beyond brand-name pop stars, what role does celebrity play within the political system? Plus, Tressie goes a little “Dr. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available within 24 hours of publication in the audio player above.)

Persons: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Taylor Swift, Tressie, Oz ” Organizations: Spotify, New York Times

☆ Opinion | Who Would Want to Go to a College Like This?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The bill is similar to Florida’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in public colleges, which was signed into law last May. This political theater lifts up a caricature of college, one on which coddled minds are seduced into liberal ideas. If states become hostile to students’ values, those students could choose to go elsewhere or to forgo college altogether. Part of a larger survey about students’ experiences of higher education, the report left me with one major takeaway: The national debate about so-called woke campuses does not reflect what most college students care about. They underscore how unhinged our national debate over higher education has become and how misaligned Republican-led public higher education systems are with the bulk of college students.

Persons: “, haven’t Organizations: Higher Education, Republican, Bills, Public, Lumina Foundation, Gallup Locations: Florida, Alabama

☆ Opinion | An Anti-Obesity Drug and Cultural Stigmas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

To the Editor:Re “Ozempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken,” by Tressie McMillan Cottom (column, Oct. 15):By “broken” in the headline, the column implies that we still perpetuate a cultural bias against obese people. But for most, physical activity and healthy eating are still nature’s best prevention and remedy. Unlike Ozempic, they’re not a sexy quick fix. Maybe healthy eating and activity are just too simple. But viewing ourselves first as victims of unfair systems is also not the answer.

Persons: Tressie McMillan, they’re

☆ Opinion | A Skeptical Look at ‘Self-Care’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Love it or hate it, self-care has transformed from a radical feminist concept into a multibillion-dollar industry. In 2021, 34 percent of women reported feeling burned out at work, along with 26 percent of men. In her book “Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included),” she encourages people to look beyond superficial fixes — the latest juice cleanses, yoga workshops, luxury bamboo sheets — to feel better. Instead, she argues that real self-care requires embracing internal work, which she outlines as four practices: setting boundaries, practicing self-compassion, aligning your values and exercising power. Lakshmin argues that when you practice real self-care, you not only take care of yourself, but you can also plant the seeds for change in your community.

Persons: Pooja Lakshmin, Lakshmin, “, Ezra Klein, Tressie McMillan Cottom Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google

☆ Opinion | America’s Top Librarian on the Rise of Book Bans
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Public libraries around the country have become major battlegrounds for today’s culture wars. In 2022, the American Library Association noted a record 1,269 attempts at censorship — almost double the number recorded in 2021. Emily Drabinski is the president of the American Library Association and an associate professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. This conversation unpacks the political and cultural anxieties fueling the attacks on libraries. Postal Service, how censorship attempts fit in the broader landscape of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation and much more.

Persons: Emily Drabinski, “, Ezra Klein, Tressie McMillan Cottom Organizations: American Library Association, Queens College Graduate School of Library, Information, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google, U.S . Postal Service

☆ What Bama Rush Reveals About the South - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Sorority rush is a tradition at many colleges. But in the South, rush inspires the same passionate zeal as collegiate football. Thanks to TikTok, the University of Alabama’s incarnation of that tradition — peak neo-antebellum white Southern culture on display — is now a global phenomenon. Since it entered the zeitgeist in 2021, millions of people have followed Bama Rush, as if they’re royal watching through Mason-jar-tinted glasses. When a small phalanx of white coeds in Tuscaloosa self-organizes under the Bama Rush banner to promote their sorority, they are battling for ritual supremacy.

Persons: Bama Rush, ’ Organizations: University of Alabama’s, Bama Locations: Mason, Tuscaloosa

☆ What Aya de León Looks For in a Good Thriller
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“The God of Good Looks,” by Breanne Mc Ivor. I really wish more authors would write popular fiction about the climate crisis, set in the here and now. Most of what gets called “climate fiction” falls into the category of science fiction/fantasy. Where are the popular books to accompany the building of a popular movement? In my early 20s, a dusty used paperback changed the way I saw spy fiction.

Persons: Christina Sharpe’s, ” Tressie McMillan, ” Elizabeth Acevedo’s, ” Dany Sigwalt’s “, Aurélia Durand, ”, Breanne Mc Ivor, I’ve, Reading ”, Sam Greenlee Organizations: Reading

☆ The Supreme Court Has Killed The Promise of Higher Education - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | Jillian Weinberger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

And I study higher education, inequality, the internet, and race, class, and gender — all the fun stuff. The Supreme Court decisions are painting a bigger picture of the American dream as one where the scales have been righted back to the original vision of this nation. What we have done is we have voided the 20th century American dream. That is, who will write the new rules for a forward-facing American dream? I do not see a sense of urgency about writing a version of an American dream that appropriately and accurately diagnoses that we’ve lost something here.

Persons: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Roberts, we’ve Organizations: The New York Times, Brown, Swann Schools, Supreme, Democrat, Republican Locations: ”, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, American

☆ Opinion | What It Is Like to Teach in the Cross Hairs of Ron DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

It’s important to note that faculty members do not drive the creation of courses in gender studies, ethnic studies and the like. To attract those students, universities have created courses that put disciplinary knowledge in the context of the world they will graduate into. DeSantis’s political posturing against his own universities on the national stage is also the work environment for thousands of university professionals in Florida. I spoke with three professors, a union officer and a campus interfaith leader about university life in Florida. Hartley’s work helping students find ways to talk about what they believe in falls under diversity and inclusion.

Persons: Matt Hartley, “, ”, Hartley’s Organizations: University of North Locations: Florida, University of North Florida, Boston, Palo Alto, Calif

☆ Opinion | Learning About Freedom at a Black Rodeo
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed of the Civil War’s end and their newfound freedom. The Eight Seconds Juneteenth Rodeo organizers thought a lot about those questions. Jones-Dixon wants Black Portlanders to see a version of themselves in a rodeo that is fun but that also makes them proud. Frederick says there remains a notion among Black Portlanders that the flooding was a convenient excuse for displacing the city’s thriving Black enclave. Having the rodeo near Vanport is a way of saying that this is an event for you, for us.

Persons: Juneteenth, —, Biden, Vince Jones, Dixon, McClellan, Jones, Black Portlanders, Ivan, Lew Frederick, Frederick, ” Organizations: Expo, Oregon, Oregonian Locations: Juneteenth, Galveston , Texas, Portland, Gresham, American, Vanport, Black

☆ Tressie McMillan Cottom on ‘Ted Lasso’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Opinion America Is Waking Up From a DreamWhen “Ted Lasso” premiered in 2020, it was supposed to rehab masculinity’s brand. “Ted Lasso” asked us to believe that we could rehabilitate American masculinity without rehabilitating the strictures of gender. “Ted Lasso” premiered near the aftermath of Trump’s presidency, with Covid still roaring. Ted asked Rebecca to hire a private detective to spy on his estranged wife and her new boyfriend. The “Ted Lasso” finale is satisfying fan service about the power of friendship, but altogether the uneven third season teaches us a more important lesson.

Persons: topick, “ Ted Lasso ”, Donald Trump’s, Ted, Ted Lasso ”, Keely, Rebecca, Jade, Trump’s, Covid, Ted Lasso, Ronald Reagan, witticisms, Kate Manne, Nate, Trump Organizations: for Disease Control, Prevention, Cornell, CNN, Mother’s, Trump Locations: America, American, British, Britain, U.S

☆ Opinion | What a Party Switch in North Carolina Means for Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Her media tour on the subject is nonsensical and vague, though, by the most generous standards. She stutters about unspecified run-ins in public with mean constituents and unwelcoming Democrats, for instance. For a model on the choices before Cotham, one need look no further than conservative commentator Matt Walsh. Representative Graig Meyer of North Carolina had a more practical read of the changes in the state’s new balance of power. On Twitter, Meyer, a Democrat, laid out how much national abortion policy boxes in North Carolina Republicans.

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