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Anna Gifty

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In progress. Harvard PhD candidate. #GodsPlan ☀️ Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I just wanted to let those who have been wondering know that I was discharged from the hospital and have been recovering. Recovery has been slow, but I'm grateful to God, my support system, and the medical staff at Mt. Auburn that I'm still here. ❤️ Also thank you for indulging my post lol
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4h
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h
Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...
press.princeton.edu
Data Driven
A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 5h
I REALLY enjoyed this book! Even if you think you know all the ways being a Black women costs more, read this book BC there are likely ways you know nothing about.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 6h
Despite life's chaos, happy belated one-year anniversary to the FIRST book I ever wrote: #TheDoubleTax. This book changed my life, earned global recognition, and arrived at the exact right time. Grateful for life, the readers, and the journey. Onwards. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734115...
Anna Gifty and Chelsea Clinton pictured at 92Y in front of a big board with our names on it
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 7h
This morning I want to help debunk a headline I keep seeing about Black Women's unemployment: By the end of 2025, 600,000 Black women were not out of the workforce. That number signifies who got DISPLACED. The end-of-year number is actually between 217,000 and 250,000 cc @epi.org and IWPR.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
5. Sharing is caring. Condescension is contempt.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 22h
I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 7h
This morning I want to help debunk a headline I keep seeing about Black Women's unemployment: By the end of 2025, 600,000 Black women were not out of the workforce. That number signifies who got DISPLACED. The end-of-year number is actually between 217,000 and 250,000 cc @epi.org and IWPR.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 29/09/2026
Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis have been awarded 2026 MacArthur Fellowships: bit.ly/4hg0dgs Princeton graduate alum Kaiyu Guan *13, now professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, has also been named a 2026 #MacFellow.
The words: "Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants" with photos of Ellora and Elizabeth
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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 17h
I can very much confirm this was the norm. The last time I was on the job market was 2008. Still had an interview in a hotel room at that time. When I started, virtually all were in hotel rooms. And I don't recall anyone questioning this idea.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 18h
The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 22h
I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing I optimized this week: I will only take pictures with short people from now on. Making it appear everyone is short is much easier than becoming tall.
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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Census Working Paper: "Gender Differences in the Returns to Double Majoring: A Case of Signaling?" by Andrew Smith, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Maria Zhu www.census.gov/library/work...
census.gov
Gender Differences in the Returns to Double Majoring: A Case of Signaling?
Women earn about 5% more for double majoring in college, while men see no return, consistent with double majors serving as a signal in the labor market.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
The news is heavy so what is currently your favorite meme. Mine is:
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Stan Twt Lady
Alt: Stan Twt Lady
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
MORE
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
abcnews.com
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol hard agree and those data centers ain't helping AT ALL
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol honestly, pop culture is an economic indicator
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol if racism wasn't a thing I would have studied the economics of pop culture
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/06/2025
lol the trad wife movement is a scam. A thread/
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol let's talk about how tradwives were a scam to begin with, since they performed financial dependence even though they were financially independent. 🙃
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol seeing The Love Hypothesis play out onscreen is NUTS lmao
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
I believe the children are our future SINCERELY
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
lol wading cautiously into #WNBA discourse to say that in suburb in MD, the only WNBA jersey sold is Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark. My cousin noted that people talk about how her jersey is the most sold but I’m here to tell you in some places it’s the only jersey sold.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
lol whomp there it is now let's stop acting shocked
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
lol a PRIMETIME to be a scammer good grief
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
lol how does everyone simultaneously not know a song, even though it's been the top song in the country for several weeks?
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think all of the rampant racism going on in public, without accountability, has confused people on the level of interaction. Interacting with me is interpersonal, not structural. I can and will enforce a boundary on your ass.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm afraid the Doomer discourse has persisted for another week (UN "AI" briefing, etc) so in case you missed this when we first put it out earlier in this bananas news cycle, I'm reposting it: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social
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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism
Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
lol Kirk Franklin loves to piss church folk off over a hip hop beat
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy 9 to 5 Day
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
EXCEPTIONAL STYLING. Olandria for Blumarine. #loveislandusa #fashionsky
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
“The CEO of Mistral AI believes American tech giants are using [AI-apocalypse] rhetoric to control and close off the market to their advantage.” lol, I rest my case.
lemonde.fr
Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI: 'AI is software. It can be controlled'
Mistral AI's co-founder believes the sector's American giants are manipulating the discourse around the technology's risks. He also defended his strategy, as critics are accusing his company of fallin...
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Naomi Osaka. 😮‍💨 🌸🌹🌺 (via Athlete Vanity)
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol I personally don't think it's that serious but what do I know
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
I got my nails done for the first time in two months, and I feel like a BRAND new woman. TLC is so underrated omg lol
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol Succession is genuinely one of the best show ever produced
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol this list reveals how white television actually is. That said: Move down Mad Men... by a lot. Move up Succession, Veep, Insecure and Parks and Rec. Swap in Living Single, Abbott Elementary, and Gossip Girl within the top 50.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol (derogatory)
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol but not THEIR kids though. Tech bros want their kids to be tech-free.
nytimes.com
Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol the world should be honestly grateful that most Black people only want equality instead of revenge.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Electric Chair followed by extradition.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
What price point for gas will incite an uprising? Asking so I can prepare.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol Mamdani is a political uno reverse
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
lol I weep for my generation's comprehension skills
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