Why I Don’t Follow White Men on Twitter (Until They Follow Me)

Shannon Coulter
7 min readFeb 7, 2020
Image: Cole Keister via Unsplash | Instagram: @coleito

I’m an easy follow on Twitter. I’ll often follow someone just because they cracked a good joke or have an interesting sounding job.

Some of my recent follows include an accordion historian, a woman who claimed “I’m so liberal, the trees hug me,” and a guy whose bio is just a lyric from a Funkadelic song. If you identify yourself as a librarian, space nerd…

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Shannon Coulter

President of Grab Your Wallet Alliance, helping people flex their economic power for a more equitable, democratic society.