steve fox

Master of the 7-minute nap. I wake up on Monday morning and go to bed later that day on Saturday night.

Medium member since October 2018

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From On “Woke” White People Advertising their Shock that Racism just won a Presidency by Courtney Parker West

For a lot of people of color, this election was really about trying to find the lesser of two evils. America asked us: “How do you prefer your racism — blatant or systemic?” And when we couldn’t answer immediately, white liberals patronizingly walked us through our own his…

From What it’s like to be that fat person sitting next to you on the plane. by Your Fat Friend

… them, I will hear the familiar, belabored, disdainful sigh. The throat cleared, the muffled groan. These are the sounds of my body being seen in public.

From Want Your Children to Survive The Future? Send Them to Art School by Dustin Timbrook

orrelation of great ar…childhood compulsion to explore is a bud quickly snipped by adults conditioned to fear the unknown. The tradition of discouraging unusual questions and behavior in children is so pervasive that we have come to view those who survive with their creativity intact as having a “gift”. What is more absurd is our amazement at the correlation of great artists and mental illness, as if …