shelf cred

Respect and trust for a person's opinions and recommendations about reading material based on the caliber of their own chosen reading material; can be based on preference of genre, but typically earned by reading stories and novels of subtance.

I'm shocked that Amanda read the Twilight saga. She has a lot of shelf cred with me. Well...she used to anyway."

Whenever I feel like a reading a romantic novel, I ask Maggie. She's got the most shelf cred when it comes to love stories.

by formicah February 21, 2011

self cred

The internal equivalent of street cred. Believing in your own worth and value. A quote that doesn't use the word but expresses the concept is James Baldwin's "It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here."

I was always quiet because I had no self cred.
I didn't believe in myself, I had no self cred.

by rjcarpenter May 3, 2018