#sockale

[theereina]

What are brands and/or companies that you feel like black/brown creators or influencers should NOT work with? Please explain the reason as well.

This can include:

small or big businesses

US based or international

startups or established

any industry

*Please comment them. Do not reblog answers; otherwise, others may not see them.

[1ns3ct3y3]

Schoolboy's a pedo who posts cp on alot of mainstream sockals btw

Oh ☹️

[jnjfarmky]

10 #rockfish 2 #channelcatfish & 1 #sockale’ (at Kent Island, MD) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRMViA9hilg/?utm_medium=tumblr

[irl-futaba]

its bc i have blue hair and prns

at 3pm on wednesday i will be kidnapped for a short amnt of time

sadly thats part of my therapy

it also isnr kidnapping its jusy some college kid i hang out w for a bit

hm.. hm… *jots down notes* Yes yes… Kidnapping makes person anxious….

[strych-ix]

Ocs donut steel

[accidentalharrie]

THE SOCK REGION 🤣

I believe the scientific term is sockal region. xox

[mymurderbooks]

Such A Fun Age

Title: Such A Fun Age

Author: Kiley Reid

Rating: ★★★★☆

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I dont know why I thought this would be one of those thriller novels where some bourgeois suburban lady's kid gets kidnapped. I think because it was a Reese's Book Club pick, but also that the blurb says something like: one night! A babysitter was accused of kidnapping her employer's kid! - And so I assumed.

Yeah it's not that at all. The story is about Emira, who does get accused of kidnapping her employer's kid by a highly prejudiced shopper and escalated by an asshole security guard, in some local version of Whole Foods. This happens in the first part, and the night I read it I had a nightmare about a receptionist at a Barry's type workout studio being very passive aggressively hostile to me. It was very detailed and very real and I got scared of the book and didnt pick it up for like a week, when it was almost due and was gonna check itself out of my Libby.

I finished it in a few hours on Friday. It's a very readable book. It reads easily, it's engaging, it's really good. Here are some of my thoughts (with spoilers):

I have to confess that the other protagonist, Alix, turned me off almost immediately, although I also understood her anxieties and sympathised with her. However I was suspicious of her from the beginning and didn't trust the sections with her point of view. This very likely coloured my reading of the book, so at the end I was like, Yeah, of course.

I feel bad that Emira can't keep doing the job she's actually good at and enjoys, because it offers no room for monetary progression and sadly could also mean replicating historical sockal hierarchies and is, culturally at least, a subservient role. I also think it's okay to just work to fund the rest of your life, and feel bad that people kept pushing her to define herself by some kind of career goal. Most jobs are kinda bullshit anyway, let's be real.

I like that she worked for the Green Party, and of course Alix's first instinct would be to consider it a personal attack.

I dropped a star for the book because some of the side characters fell a bit flat for me, particularly Tamra. I just don't get Tamra, why was she so weird and asked all those awkward intrusive questions. Emira's friends are sketched out just enough they feel a little like extras, and the other women Alix interacts with kind of feel like stereotypes, but then I consider that we see them through Alix's pov and that is probably just how she sees the world, through a kinda self absorbed lens.

I really like the ending! I'm glad Emira's life proceeds okay and she makes reasonable life decisions. I also think it's a realistic ending - Emira realising that Briar will eventually forget her, that Briar grows up with the same privileges as her mother, that none of them have anything to do with each other anymore, is a sensible and satisfying conclusion for me.

Do I recommend this? Yes, very much so! It's not a perfect book, but it's easy to read, and I think it's a good portrayal of more middle class race issues, particularly about wealthy liberal white people, and the assumptions we have about each other and the roles we play out in society according to the identities we believe we've carved out for ourselves and would like to portray to the world. Should your book club read this? This is a perfect book club book! It's written in two different womens' voices, with lots of things to dissect and discuss.

[moscowstudyblr]

Like omg is this really that bad

Doesn’t this seem like a really shitty thing to say? idk just cause people don’t have the same ambition(s) as you doesn’t mean interacting w them as human beings is a waste of time