Things You Are Wrong About & Why I’m Punishing Myself With Politics

Tressie McMillan Cottom
4 min readSep 29, 2020

This is all over the place because I am all over the place these days.

The pandemic is one thing. It is a huge thing. Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death and the dread of the coming Republican power grab is another thing. Tonight’s Presidential debates can only make all of this worse. Of course, I am going to watch it but I have a good reason. I’m live-responding with Gen Mag, here on Medium. I have not promised to be sober.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom

Sociologist. Writer. Professor. MacArthur Fellow. Books, speaking, podcast: www.tressiemc.com