9 - 8-BALL CHICKS by Gini Sikes

Rony J. (@idontreadthis // @ronyphat) and Amanda B. (@amandajbermudez // @a.j.bermudez) do '90s nostalgia all wrong by focusing on the women-on-society's-fringes part of the decade with Gini Sikes's portrait of girls in urban gangs, 8-BALL CHICKS. What does this view of the years-we-all-love-to-forget-the-bad-parts-of have to show us?

"I'll be there for you" has a few socio-economic asterisks!
Girls (literal girls, lol) in gangs have the advantage over boys in gangs cause the cops overlook them!
Girls (LITERAL girls, lol) in gangs give all that advantage back and then some by suffering comical levels of physical and sexual abuse.
Rony calls out the antelope community. #lawofthesavannah
H&M Gang Gang!
Crip = BLUE; Blood = RED. Got it?
Jesus is a white woman. #feminism
Amanda likes locuses! NOT LOCUSTS, LOCUSES.
Rony will man-splain the female psyche to everyone, don't take it personally.
Trust SOME bitches, at least.
Who cares who's smoking crack in the bathroom? Focus up and keep writing!
Rony does funny voices to keep from swearing and flipping tables.
'90s fashion = gun placement options!
Team Sheik ("SHEEK") or Team Sheik ("SHAKE")?
Rony ❤ Sad Eyes 😘
Take cholo back!
The worst thing Twitter's ever done.

All Amanda has in this world are her ovaries and her word. And she don't break 'em for nobody... that isn't offering books, cake, or a nice small batch whiskey.

(Turns out marital rape was outlawed in Texas in 1994, not 1991. All of my exes die in Texas!)

RURTHER FEEDING:
Lunchtime Leniency: Judges' Rulings Are Harsher When They Are Hungrier, by Kurt Kleiner, Scientific American, Sept. 1, 2011 (Study by Shai Danzinger et al.)

Serial Podcast, Season 3, Episode 2 - "You've Got Some Gauls" Sept. 20, 2018.

TPBC, Season 1, Epsode 8 - "100 Amazing Facts About the Negro, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr."

Dangerous Minds

Girbauds!

TPBC Season 1, Episode 7 - "The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson"

m.A.A.d city, by Kendrick Lamar. It's the L.A. section of this book in 6 minutes.

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