In her brilliant collection of essays, Thick, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom invites readers to engage with scholarly research—and to take this engagement personally, ‘The things we touch and smell and see and experience through our senses are how stories become powerful. But I have never wanted to only tell powerfully evocative stories. I have wanted to tell evocative stories that become a problem for power. For that, I draw upon data and research.’ Cottom applies sociological research to challenge systemic injustices that deeply affect people in real and intimate ways. Like Cottom, the authors in this collection are interested in addressing social problems. They offer readers stories about the problems, asking you to consider ways we might solve them. The first version of the Agenda for Social Justice was published in 2004. Now, 20 years later, much has changed. Although these changes are not always progressive, they show that another world is possible. For example, we have seen the ways social media can act as a transformative feminist agent, such as what the #MeToo movement exposed. We witnessed the rise of a Movement for Black Lives, where people organizing under Black Lives Matter protested in the streets for an end to racist policing and brutality. And, as I write this Afterword, people around the world are calling for a ceasefire and a free Palestine, pleading for an end to the genocide of Palestinian people who have suffered for decades under Israeli occupation. The problems evidenced in our world are serious, severe, and far-reaching.
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