FMV Book Book Club—'Thick: And Other Essays' by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Date: 16.12.2024
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Host: Female Minority Voices



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Welcome to the eleventh The Female Minority Voices Book Club meeting of the year!

To keep with tradition, we’d like to make our final book club meeting of the year a holiday potluck and book swap!

Here’s the plan:
*If you can, bring a dish, dessert, or even a snack to share with the group—no pressure to bring something big!
*Bring a book you love but are ready to part with, wrapped up like a gift with a short introduction or hint about the book written on the wrapper or a note. It’ll be a fun blind date with a book exchange, and everyone will leave with something new to read!

It’s a wonderful way to celebrate the year, enjoy good food, and share stories (both literal and figurative).

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For December, our book pick is Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom.

About the book: Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals
Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses on college data to unleashing another identity: a purveyor of wit, wisdom—and of course Black Twitter snark—about all that is right and much that is so very wrong about this thing we call society. In the bestselling tradition of bell hooks and Roxane Gay, McMillan Cottom’s freshman collection illuminates a particular trait of her tribe: being thick. In form, and in substance.

This bold compendium, likely to find its place on shelves alongside Lindy West, Rebecca Solnit, and Maggie Nelson, dissects everything from beauty to Obama to pumpkin spice lattes. Yet Thick will also fill a void on those very shelves: a modern black American female voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms in a style uniquely her own.
McMillan Cottom has crafted a black woman’s cultural bible, as she mines for meaning in places many of us miss and reveals precisely how—when you’re in the thick of it—the political, the social, and the personal are almost always one and the same.

Thick --
In the name of beauty --
Dying to be competent --
Know your whites --
Black is over (or, special black) --
The price of fabulousness --
Black girlhood, interrupted --
Girl 6 --
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OFFER: Our team member Rodolfo Baldinotti will be able to order the book for those of you who want to use this offer. He will give a list to the bookstore (Norli Strandgaten) and you will be contacted when the book is ready to be picked up (payment then and there).

Send an email with your full name and contact information to femaleminorityvoices@gmail.com until the 4th of November at 14:00.

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And as always, if you don't get the chance to read the book, come anyway!
The book functions as a conversation starter, so just read up on the theme/topic of the book, and join us for a good conversation - and bring a friend!
Looking forward to celebrating with you all! 🎉📚

Join our book club here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/382802586790525

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