#anti allie x noah

[alphawolfice1989]

The similarities between the notebook and the choice

Allie cheated on Lon with Noah in the Notebook

Gabby cheated on Ryan with Travis in the choice

[nicklloydnow]

“Who can describe these shameful acts as heroic? And yet the Democratic Socialists of America promoted the Times Square gathering and has lent its support to this rhetoric. Six sitting members of Congress—Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Shri Thanedar, and Greg Casar—belong to the organization, which sets the tone for many political intellectuals and journalists.

Accordingly, leftists on social media defended the idea that change must happen by any means necessary. Noah Kulwin, a contributing editor of Jewish Currents, compared the attacks to John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry. Lake Micah, an editor at Harper’s and The Drift, hailed the attacks. “A near-century’s pulverized overtures toward ethnic realization, of groping for a medium of existential latitude—these things culminate in drastic actions in need of no apologia,” he wrote on X. It is interesting to find an editor at a prestige magazine celebrating bloodshed as a means of “ethnic realization.” And it is fortunate for him that he seems incapable of writing clearly, or he might simply have written, “Kill the Jews.” Gabriel Winant, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, said that criticizing Palestinian tactics was “politically meaningless.”

(…)

In a 1975 interview, Harrington described how many on the left had adopted a “third-world romanticism” that spoke of the “US always being bad and the Third World always right.” Harrington lamented the fact that “some young Jewish leftists, feeling a need to prove their commitment to socialism and internationalism, had to be more anti-Israel than anyone else.” Harrington, for his part, identified with the Jewish state’s social-democratic tradition, while supporting Palestinian self-determination on peaceful terms.

Whatever can be said against this view, it is far nobler and more humane than what one currently hears from the DSA and its media and academic allies. Over time, the left’s opposition to Israel has only grown—in part because of changes in Western perceptions of the country. What was once was seen as a secular nation, led by liberals and socialists and embodied in the kibbutzim, has now come to be perceived as religious and right-wing.

People who regard Western civilization as inherently racist, violent, misogynistic, and unjust have come to see Israel as the purest distillation of the essence of that rotten civilization. Polemics against the Jewish state often double as indictments of other Western countries, particularly the United States. “From Palestine to Mexico, all of the walls have got to go,” the rallygoers chanted in Times Square.

(…)

This week, millennial socialism revealed its moral bankruptcy. While videos of atrocities circulated online, its adherents made excuses for kidnapping, rape, and the killing of noncombatants. In recent years, millennial socialists have come closer to the Democratic mainstream, but they continue to distinguish themselves by their eagerness to overlook, excuse, or embrace the crimes of Palestinian extremists. In doing so, they forfeit any right they might have possessed to speak as enemies of injustice and cruelty.”

“In recent years, the concept of “decolonization” has been swallowed up by its metaphorical potentialities. The euphemistic second meaning the term has acquired in the process—a noncommittal verbal gesture toward symbolic restitution of certain historic wrongs—has facilitated its widespread endorsement by universities, NGOs, and media outlets. But as Hamas laid waste to southern Israel, writers, activists, and academics eagerly linked the term back to its original concrete referent: the often horrifically brutal struggles over territorial control that shaped the 20th century and that now risk returning to the fore as the Pax Americana falters.

The result is an uncomfortable predicament for elite institutions that have rhetorically embraced “decolonization”—but would surely prefer to eschew its more literal implications.

(…)

Here we find an indirect clue as to the true nature of the “decolonization” project that has become a prominent part of higher education: Like much of what now takes place in elite institutions, it is ultimately a therapeutic enterprise. Battles over land and sovereignty are displaced onto the psyche; the demand for territorial restoration has become a metaphor for internal struggles over identity and belonging for which universities serve as a staging ground.

But intellectual history suggests this therapeutic function isn’t as easily detached from the concept’s violent implications as university administrators might like. The Afro-Caribbean philosopher Frantz Fanon, who is generally regarded as the originator of much contemporary thinking on decolonization, was also a practicing psychiatrist. In his 1961 manifesto, The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon argued that violence was essential to the defeat of colonialism for psychological as much as for practical reasons: Without a bloody struggle against the colonizer, the colonized can’t heal the psychic wounds imposed on them by colonialism. Out of this crucible, he prophesied in the early phase of decolonization, a “new man” would be born. For Fanon, decolonization was therapeutic only insofar as it was also real, material—and violent.

In recent days, pro-Palestinian protesters have tried to channel the cathartic effects of anti-colonial violence invoked by Fanon. But as Israel’s response unfolds with Western backing, a twin narrative has come to the surface on the other side, with some supporters of the Jewish state also seeking catharsis in the meting out of reciprocal devastation to Gaza. Relatedly, a difficulty with any one-sided application of Fanon’s account of decolonization in this context is that Israel has its own account of psychic regeneration through nation-building. Some early Zionists, too, sought to forge a “new man” through a violent struggle to overcome the psychic effects of millennia of anti-Semitism and stateless subjugation. Both narratives retain powerful appeal far beyond the territories in dispute.

There has been no more fraught subject than Israel in elite universities in recent decades. Most of them have influential constituencies on both sides of the conflict, and they have consequently acted in contradictory ways, often attracting the ire of both Israel’s supporters and its opponents. But their reluctance and awkwardness in responding to the current situation hints at a problem deeper than these divided loyalties. For years, elite colleges—and other influential institutions—have lent their prestige to once-radical concepts like decolonization, seeming to imagine that they could be kept separate from the gruesome histories out of which they emerged. Fanon, the intellectual godfather of “decolonial” thought, wasn’t so naïve. As the world becomes more dangerous again, the luxury of metaphorical radicalism may prove too costly to sustain.”

“A horrified i24NEWS journalist Nicole Zedeck told cameras near the Gaza Strip: 'I'm talking to some of the [Israeli] soldiers and they say what they've witnessed as they've been walking through these different houses... babies — their heads cut off. Families completely gunned down in their beds. This is nothing that anyone could ever have imagined.'

How is it that Hamas has defenders? How does barbarism have any place in our modern age? How could those who think the ‘Palestinian cause’ righteous ever defend this unprovoked carnage?

(…)

A post-Holocaust world that vowed ‘never again’ has, this weekend, witnessed Jews ripped from the safety of their homes and places of business.

Hamas is now threatening to execute one hostage for every strike by Israel that comes without warning — executions they vow to film and release.

Who among us hasn’t heard the pleas of mothers, fathers, siblings, husbands and wives, begging for the safe return of their loved ones and felt their abject fear?

I think especially of the women and girls of Israel, going about their day as we might in the West, and try to conjure the surreality of being snatched by armed militants, beaten and stripped and made to walk through the streets while men spit and jeer, subjected to atrocities too obscene to print.

This is ISIS-level terror, moving from hard targets — planes, buildings, stadiums, subways — to a mass extinction event, innocent civilians picked off one-by-one.

(…)

Make no mistake: This isn’t just about land control. This is about fundamentalism and a deep, centuries-abiding hatred of women. These would-be warriors, targeting society’s most defenseless, are cowards.

(…)

Tlaib actually called it Palestinian ‘resistance’, leading to swift condemnation from New York Democrat Ritchie Torres.

‘Shame on anyone who glorifies as “resistance” the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust,’ he slammed. ‘It is reprehensible and repulsive.’

Yet we see such sentiment thriving on the Left.

(…)

War didn’t ‘erupt.’ Israel was blindsided in an unprovoked terrorist attack on a scale and scope to rival 9/11.

The attack was further characterized in this piece as an ‘eruption of violence’ – as if both sides were to blame.

The American Jewish Committee reported that the Times never once used the word ‘terrorist’ in their Saturday coverage.

As for the supercilious female congresswomen who were so quick to excuse these atrocities — AOC especially, that self-described firebrand feminist — they should be shamed out of office.

Not least because their sophomoric, simple-minded stance is complete repudiation of what happens to women in war, a historical atrocity that dates back at least to the ancient Greeks. Rape has been used to terrorize the enemy, psychologically destabilize or to ethnically cleanse. In Rwanda in the 1990s, Tutsi women were raped by HIV-positive men recruited especially for just that purpose.

So commonplace was rape as a weapon that the United Nations didn’t declare it a war crime until 1995.

As for the shouts this weekend of ‘Allahu Akbar!’ over the naked, brutalized bodies of women, alive or dead, paraded through the streets — let us not shy away from this either, although some media outlets, the aforementioned New York Times and CNN among them, certainly are.

What a betrayal. What a cowardly refusal to report the truth. Ever since Hamas came to power in the Gaza Strip in 2006, the region has been subjected to Taliban-level repressions.

Women and girls have been forced to wear the hijab since 2007. Two years later, females were forbidden to ride behind men on scooters or to dance — ever. An Islamic group called Swords of Truth threatened female TV personalities with beheading if they refused to conform to strict dress codes.

(…)

We are now seeing such horrors writ large on the nation of Israel.

On 9/11, the world — the sane part, those nations that value freedom of thought and movement and equality for all — rallied around America and came to our aid in the face of unspeakable Islamist terror. Israel deserves no less.”

[clarawaking]

My Trans SuperPowers -- #2

A poem, dedicated to the celebration of being trans, and to the education of those who 'don't get it'

(lay this down to a sweet groove...)

* * * * *

I’d like to share a bit with you —  about my transition

To counter the spite for people who are in this position

Transphobes accuse this of being an arbitrary decision 

That we make to ally ourselves with leftist activism…

They have zero respect for the emotional precision

Of discovering your authenticity, and escaping your body-prison,

...

To be a trans person, is to belong to a tribe

Who find themselves always, on the outside

You hear the people joke, mock and deride

But you really fear the violence that follows from the jibes

Can you imagine your life if you always had to hide?

And hate?  Like….hate?  

Why do we get this hate?

Like we’re fucking-perverts-always-looking-for-new-ways-to-masturbate?

...

The anti-trans paranoiacs call us groomers & pedophiles 

But you ever wonder what on earth they’re teaching to their child?

“God is love” they preach, behind judgemental smiles

But He doesn’t make mistakes, the phobes say with confidence

Well then me being trans was EXACTLY God’s intent

My path in this life was to be born a girl

But to be thought of as a boy by the entire world

So my soul’s journey has been to uncover my Real Self

And if my body wasn’t designed to be accurate off the shelf

Then who the hell is anyone to question God’s decision?

To react to His creation with disgust and derision?

“But surgery is butchery!” they vociferate with gumption

But they’ll get eye glasses, or nose jobs, or take Viagara for their dick dysfunction

Anyway, I’ll defer to what Roger Waters said

“As I’ve always said, I prefer your lips red, 

Not what the Good Lord made

But what He intended!”

…

So let me tell you a bit about my own experience

Before you tell me your fear-based doubtful sentiments

Unless you think there’s something wrong with people who are different?

You don’t need to treat me like I’m sick, or weird or strange,

Just because my body’s undergoing a specific change

That hasn’t happened to you (…..yet!!!)

...

And by God don’t tell me therapy’s what I need

When it’s been years of exactly that, that finally helped me see

What I had been repressing for my entire life

What has lurked in my unconscious, & created all that strife, 

From the carved-up scars that were once left by my knife

To no doubt the fact things didn’t work out with people, like my wife

...

You know…just cuz you might not see the meaning in someone’s blahaj shark

Doesn’t make it any less meaningful than some belief in Noah’s ark

And what, should trans people spend their lives hiding in the dark?

Living lives of shame and loneliness and never feel the spark

of being loved for who they are, and opening their heart?

proudly moving in society, contributing their part?

...

And are we really so scary that you need to be protected?

Like if we piss in your washroom, you’re gonna get infected?

Or we’re sneaking a peak at your junk so that we can inspect it?

It’s trans people’s privacy that tends not to be respected….

Which is why we band together, cuz we know we’re not defective.

And we just want to be able to take a  pee….without vigilante bathroom detectives!

…..

In truth, being trans has already cost tons of sacrifice

But I am so goddamn thankful this was MY roll of the dice

Because it has softened me and deepened me in the most delightful ways

And I’ve found acceptance by friends, family, the allies and the gays

I’ve met courageous people whose eyes shine like sun rays

And a feeling of simple joy is what accompanies my days

Cuz being trans is like discovering that you have superpowers

I’m a fucking x-man (pun intended!), and I do not plan to cower

I know that in the future, I ain’t getting many flowers

It’s kinda like playing euchre, never getting any bauers

Future lovers or not I have Clara, and I guess that makes me now hers

And you find you can handle rejection, when your own self-love towers

My emotional struggles, I find Estrogen now cures

And my eyes, hot damn!!!, they have a new allure

And it’s fun to feel confident, but also play demure

...

It’s possible, and it’s fine, if you want to make some changes

Everybody does as their life flows and rearranges

But trans people are discovering just how wide that range is

And the haters & the intolerant are really, the only dangers

...

Heck, I’m learning to biohack this flesh vessel!

Cyproterone & Estradiol are my mortar & my pestle

Crushing masculinity, releasing femininity

If I add progesterone, it’d be the Holy Trinity

And if religion don’t agree with me, I’ve found my own Divinity

With joy, & love, euphoria, there ain’t no way a sin it be

And if I’m destined for damnation? Into infinity??

Then I say bring it, bitch, cuz that’s where all my friends’ll be.  

…

To me, being trans is beautiful, there’s nothing to be mourned

I don’t feel it like a death, I more feel like I’ve been reborn.

And, I cherish it. ❤️

[queer-and-dear-books]

Title: Here To Stay

Author: Sara Farizan

Genre: YA Fiction | Romance | Friendship | Drama | Mystery

Content Warnings: Xenophobia | Racism | Lesbophobia | Sexism | Bullying | Outing

Overall Rating: 9.3/10

Personal Opinion: If you enjoyed The Sky Blues and/or Felix Ever After, then you might like this book too. Personally, because I really enjoyed those books, I liked the premise of this one too. Bijan is the target of a xenophobic email that paints him as a terrorist simply because he’s brown. But luckily, he has many allies to lean on and people to protect him. And he’ll be sure to do everything he can to make the perpetrator face some serious consequences.

Couple Classification: Bijan X Elle = Jock X Nerd/Prep

Do I Own This Book? No.

Spoilers Below For My Likes & Dislikes:

Likes:

- If you enjoyed The Sky Blues and/or Felix Ever After, then you might like this book too. Personally, because I really enjoyed those books, I liked the premise of this one too. It really drew me in from the start because of the mystery. As soon as characters were being introduced, I began analyzing them, wondering if they were the culprit behind the act of racism against Bijan. I put Will at the top of my list being a straight, cis, white, rich male and I was close. It was his shit girlfriend. It’s funny because I did suspect Noah greatly but the fact that he was just so obsessed with Stephanie just made me think he didn’t fit the bill. Why would he be racist to a guy when the girl he adores is super woke? And it pleased me to find that he actually was not the culprit. He did send the second email though that had outed Stephanie and Erin.

- Automatically I can say that I like a lot of the main characters and their dynamic with each other. The true friends ended up being all people of color, queer white folks, and (sorta) a kid from a poor background. And Drew had latched onto his whiteness to make himself feel superior to people of color like Bijan. He believed the vitriol that people like Will and Jessica spat out so he could enjoy the rich lifestyle of his privileged girlfriend. But in his heart, he knew it was wrong to pick on Bijan because of his race. And he turned out to be a decent guy.

- Love Marcus by the way. He is truly the epitome of black excellence. And I love that he had this heart to heart with Bijan about the ways their folks had given them talks about how not to get racially profiled. It’s deep and difficult but they were able to bond over that deepness and became this united front. But even though Marcus is clearly their best player, I love that he wants to get into MIT and become a civil engineer. I think it’s super cool that that’s his dream and he doesn’t care what anyone else says, that’s what he will do.

- Sean is great too. He’s Asian (specifically Japanese) and he was raised by two moms. He is super confident and he’s artsy and the way he actually stole the anti-Bijan poster from the bigots proves he’s a true best friend. And I love that Bijan is aware of how he hasn’t acted like a best friend to Sean lately. He hung out more with Elle and Stephanie and the team than he did with Sean who was always there supporting him through thick and thin. Every game, every conversation with girls, and especially when that email was sent to the entire student body. So the fact that Bijan was thinking of making it up to his best friend by going to his showcase with a sign that read, “Eye of the Tiger, Sean” after Sean held a similar sign at his big game is just so sweet. I adore their friendship so much and I love their bond.

- Those commentators, Kevin and Reggie, in Bijan’s head were hilarious. I loved their banter and I loved how they broke up the tension and also delivered play by play of some of the basketball moments so I don’t have to picture it. It’s so weird but it’s kind of healthy? In a way? Because Bijan was so positive. They’re figments of his imagination and they were never self-deprecating. They were constantly encouraging him and delivering his best points to the reader. I loved that.

- I could feel the chemistry with Stephanie and Erin and I am glad that we got some queer representation. Even if it’s only with two WLW pairs. I would have loved to find out if any of the basketballers were MLM but I’ll settle for them learning about racial equality. Because it wasn’t just about black folks and middle easterners. They also mentioned the Japanese internment camps and had the sassy Sean talk smack to that white supremacist ass, Jessica Carter. Fuck her for real.

- I also respect the hell out of Bijan was walking away from Jessica when he realized there was no reasoning with her. Her bigotry ran so deep that she truly believed she was 100% justified in calling Bijan, a 16 year old who has never lived outside the US, a terrorist. He walked away and got his girl Elle and it was beautiful. Jessica doesn’t matter.

Dislikes:

- Fuck Will Thompson, fuck Noah Olson, and fuck Jessica Carter. Holy shit, they are the trinity of bigoted fucks. Will is the biggest douchebag with his comments and casual racism. Him and his buddies at Mercer Day and his girlfriend are the worst because they truly believe America is for white people apparently. Like the way they talked about brown folks was just so disgusting. I’m actually revolted thinking about the shit that came out of their mouths. And Noah is just an incel for being so obsessed with Steph that he actually believed he had a right to her. And apparently she “led him on” by being his friend. Ugh, I hate men like that. Toxic masculinity and white supremacy runs deep with this student body but it makes me so happy that they were all punished for their actions. Even if Will will probably still get into Trinity after all his dumbass bullshit. Fuck them all anyway because I hate them so goddamn much.

- I do feel like the fights Bijan had with his mother and Sean (less of a fight and more of a cold war) could’ve been resolved better than just them supporting him so hard in his last game. Like, at least have them acknowledge their behavior was wrong. Well, I don’t actually know who was in the wrong in the situation. Maybe Bijan’s reactions could’ve been less strong? I don’t know. Just something about it left me feeling dissatisfying, I guess.

- Also the quick and brief point of coach having a daughter who is deceased just happened and then never addressed. He talked so harshly to the kids too. Damn. At least Bijan knew it unlike in Running With Lions. This man cared way too much about some ball game than the well-being of his students and it is fucked up. I am glad that he sort of became more on their side in the end though. I just wish he said it out loud. It’s not enough to be implicit with your actions. Although I will say action is more important than words. But still. The fact that he always blamed Bijan AND the racist perpetrator never sat well with me. Call out Will and Drew for the racist shit coming out of their mouths! Instead he’s just criticizing them for not acting like a team. Like Will hating Bijan’s guts is somehow his fault.

- The writing style sort of… falls flat for me in the beginning. I got used to it but it felt so simplistic. And I think I’m willing to chalk that up to Bijan being simple. He doesn’t really strike me as the most entertaining protagonist. Again, I respect him. And he’s absolutely got some comedic chops. But I guess he simply didn’t resonate with me. Maybe because he’s a straight guy and his comments about women sometimes rubbed me the wrong way? Granted he was called out on some of it and he was also blabbing to find  common ground with a despondent Drew. But yeah, straight male protagonists do not do it for me I guess. Damn. That kind of sucks for me. Although I did really like Cliff from Neanderthal Opens The Door To The Universe. He might be an exception though.

- I do really love the ending with the implication that Bijan and Drew will become really good friends in their senior year. But I still wish we had a scene where Drew actually apologized for all the shitty things he did to Bijan in the past year because he really was a douche nozzle. But you know, saving Bijan from Will and his Mercer Day cronies is a good start. He still said, “Your people” when talking about terrorists in reference to Bijan and that was puke-worthy. Well, it’s a start. And at least not every straight white person in this is incapable of growth. Granted in the case of Drew, there is a gaping difference in that he doesn’t come from money like Will and Jessica. My god I hate those two so much. Oh my god, I just remembered how Will talked about Jessica as if she was a disposable sex toy and now I hate him even more. Ew and yikes and gross.

[barryallenis]

if it's not too much, could you maybe post some of the educational resources you have on racial issues? like links or a list of books, etc. as a fellow non-black person who wants to be better educated, i'd really appreciate it ^^

Yes for sure! Here’s my own list I’ve been working on which is ***very much a work in progress*** both in creating and in consuming 

BOOKS, ARTICLES, MOVIES, PODCASTS, SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AND PLATFORMS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT ALL LINKED BELOW

Books:

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, change and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberle Crenshaw

“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Sensuous Knowledge by Minna Salami

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Honestly just a bunch of MLK speeches I have probably never read in their entirety (specifically “Letter from Birmingham Jail”)

Research Articles:

Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale.

Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis

Measuring Racial Discrimination (more of an academic textbook so I am putting it here)

Articles:

We can’t build anti-racism on top of racism

“Why You Need to Stop Saying All Lives Matter”

“White people, Here’s How we can try to be better Allies and be proactively anti-racist”

“How to respond to ‘Riots don’t solve anything’

Black People Need Stronger White Allies — Here’s How You Can Be One

When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs 

When White Saviorism Turns Deadly: American missionary played doctor, children died, when will there be justice?

Helpful social media posts (general education/self reflection):

On systemic racism

Systemic racism facts and figures

Systemic racism explained video

Structural vs personal racism

more anti-racist books

On white privilege

why reverse racism can’t exist

which black person do I listen to

ways white women center themselves in race convos

Microaggression examples

on calling someone black

On “All Lives Matter”

another on “all lives matter”

5 common phrases that are historically anti-black

Defunding the police

more on defunding the police

ACAB (All cops are bad/bastards)

how your vote connects to criminal justice (though voter suppression is a very real barrier to that)

Trevor Noah’s video on the dominos leading to the current uprising

John Oliver on Policing

Social Media Posts (Allyship & Activism):  

10 steps to non-optical allyship

How to Ally

why reading about anti-racism doesn’t make you anti-racist

allyship vs white saviorism

5 ways to take action

How to be actively antiracist

“I’ve posted on instagram, now what?”

40 ways you can help right now

5 ways to support protesters if you can’t go to a protest (good for my fellow immunocompromised people!) 

performative activism

9 mistakes white people make when fighting for racial justice

taking accountability for problematic behavior 

How to sustainably support the black community

Social Media Posts (more self reflection/discussions with other white people): 

How to respond to common racist statements

To white people with feed fatigue

What to say when people deny what is happening

talking about racial injustice with your white family

What to say when ...

Toxic positivity racism edition

Docs/Movies/TV:

13th

American Son

Selma

I Am Not Your Negro 

Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

When They See You 

Podcasts:

1619 by The NYT

About Race

Code Switch by NPR

The Diversity Gap

Social Media Accounts:

@nowhitesaviors

@rachel.cargle

@ckyourprivilege

@theconciouskid

@ibrahmxk

@thegreatunlearn 

@ohhappydani

@mspackyetti

@layafsaad

Organizations to support:

Black Lives Matter

Color of Change

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

The Bail Project

Equal Justice Initiative

The Loveland Foundation

Reclaim The Block

(there are probably a bunch of great organizations in your specific area to find too so you can support local!)

Other things to focus on:

listening to black voices and stories

watching widespread media coverage AND individual coverage of protests, don’t let other people tell you what’s going on, see it for yourself

Diversifying your feed! This doesn’t, and shouldn’t, be just a quick thing, overloading yourself with new content you’ve been recommended without much thought. That can quickly fall into tokenism rather than allowing you to find creators you really enjoy and connect with! Take the time to explore new spaces in things you love on social platforms you use! Personally I’ve been working on diversifying the food blogs on instagram I follow! (I just love food on my feed okay? lol)  

VOTE - if you are a US citizen and haven’t registered yet PLEASE DO. And start researching people running in your local elections which are so often overlooked but where so much of the real change in your community will start! *However I also acknowledge that voter suppression is real. So if you have the ability to vote for changes that will fix our flawed voting system for others who can’t PLEASE do. 

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD! I’d also very much like to add to this list.

[brooklynblerd]

So You Want To Be An Ally

Over the last 2 weeks, I have been fielding many white-guilt questions at work and having very interesting conversations and Zoom calls. Overall, they have been well received, but I am not sure if anything will happen once this is no longer a hot topic. I hope we keep up the momentum, but the media and Politicians and other power holders will try to silence us as quickly as possible. All of the companies realizing that #BlackLivesMatter will inevitably fade away as well. WE HAVE TO KEEP THE PRESSURE ON. So I made a list of talking points for the company that I work for, I hope they put it to use. I will begin sending this to anyone that reaches out to me to “talk” or “to see if I am ok”. While I appreciate the concern (if it’s genuine), I cannot continue being your only Black friend or the only Black person that you feel comfortable speaking to. 

I saw this on Twitter recently, White privilege doesn't mean that your life hasn't been hard, it just means that the color of your skin isn't one of the things that makes it harder. I think this pretty much sums up what white people need to understand, what those people calling themselves our allies need to understand. Having Black pride & saying Black Lives Matter should not offend anyone. It does not mean that we are anti white people.

Black people are not a monolith. While we have all experienced racism in some form or another, we do not share the exact same experiences with it. To try and get an overall view of the different types of racism, you need to speak to many different Black people. Stop treating us as a collective, we are all individuals.  Racism has permeated every single institution in this country. Education, Housing, Banking, Healthcare, Criminal Justice, Entertainment, etc. Racism is very much systemic, not always overt. There are also many different microaggressions that do not present as overt racism. Also, if we are going to have these discussions, please make sure that we feel safe, that we will be heard without reprimand or cynicism or disbelief. Our silence is the reason why this has gone on for so long. We want to be heard. We are no longer willing to stay invisible. Fear makes many of us stay silent, not willing to upset the status quo.

Revamp your hiring strategy/quota. People and organizations tend to conflate diversity and inclusivity. They are NOT the same. While there are many women, LGBTQIA members, Black and other People of Color, the Executives, Sales Management, and HR do not reflect this.

Conversations about race and other social justice issues are uncomfortable. Having these conversations without any Black and People of color present is pointless. Make sure you have Black people and other People of Color in any discussions you have regarding race relations and any other social justice issues. Empathy and sympathy is great, but it will not replace an actual experience.

Understand that the current state of the world has been a long time coming. George Floyd was the straw that broke the camel's back. The only difference is that everyone has a camera now and the police aren't doing themselves any favors by brutalizing everyone who is protesting police brutality.

Acknowledge your privilege. Acknowledge that the system is built to benefit you more than it does us and that it always has.

Saying "I'm not racist" isn't enough anymore. You have to be anti-racist. You have to stop the jokes, stereotypes, etc amongst your circle of friends and family members. This will be hard. But Black and Brown lives have to matter more than offending anyone that is unwilling to change.

Racism is not up to Black people and other People of Color to solve. This wasn't created or instituted by us and as we remain the "minority" in positions of power, we are unable to change it. We only have the ability to fight it, to rise up and demand change. To show that we will no longer take it. We will no longer be silent. We were all taught to be quiet and hold our feelings in to make sure that white people are comfortable. To make sure that we don’t appear threatening or angry. That is changing. Things will not go back to the way that they were. 

Books to read in your journey of becoming an ally:

How To Be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kensi

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin Diangelo

So You Want To Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

Me and white Supremacy - Layla F. Saad

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates 

Notes of A Native Son - James Baldwin 

Born A Crime - Trevor Noah

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Brittany Cooper

Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth - Dana-Ain Davis

Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States - Edwardo Bonilla-Silva

Towards the Other America: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter - Chris Crass

Two Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage - Leslie Picca and Joe Feagin

How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide - Crystal Fleming

The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions - Vilna Bashi Treitler

Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach - Tanya Golash Boza

Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations - Joe Feagin

White Rage; the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson

Black Americans - Alphonso Pinkney

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present - Harriet Washington

The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry- Maryann Erigha

Code of the Street - Elijah Anderson

The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

The Mis-Education of the Negro - Carter Woodson

UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol.1 - Joseph Zerbo

UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. 2 - G. Mokhtar

Black Wealth/White Wealth - Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice - Paul Kivel

Witnessing Whiteness - Shelly Tochluk

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race - Derald Wing Sue

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know - Tema Jon Okun

Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race - Frances Kendall

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics - George Lipsitz

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race - Debby Irving

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood - Jim Grimsley

Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories - editors = Eddie Moore, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks & Ali Michael

Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America - Joseph Barndt

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History - Vron Ware

Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence - editors = Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams & Keisha N. Blain

We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America - editors = Elizabeth Betita Martinez, Matt Meyer & Mandy Carter. Forward by Cornel West. Afterword by Alice Walker & Sonia Sanchez

killing rage: Ending Racism - bell hooks

Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America - Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati

Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy - Chris Crass

White Like Me: Reflections on Race form A Privileged Son - Tim Wise

White Trash: Race and Class in America - editors = Annalee Newitz & Matt Wray

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces - Radley Balko

Race Traitor - editors = Noel Ignatiev & John Garvey

Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education (Cultural Pluralism #2) - Cheryl E. Matias

Disrupting White Supremacy

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times - AmySonnie, James Tracy

For White Folks Who Teach in The Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy) - Christopher Emdin

Benign Bigotry: The Psychology Subtle Prejudice - Kristin J. Anderson

Subversive Southern: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) - Catherine Fosl

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America - Karen Brodkin

America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wells

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Living Into God's Dream: Dismantling Racism in America - editor = Catherine Meeks

Promise And A Way Of Live: White Antiracist Activism - Becky Thompson

What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy (Counterpoints #398) - Robin Diangelo

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What I’m Reading

I’ll be honest, it’s hard to write right now. Lately, I’ve spent a lot of time going through resources to learn more about being a good ally, and refreshing myself on a lot of history I learned in college. That being said – I’ve also been diving into my library list pretty hard.

One of my first blog posts EVER way back in 2014 was about ebooks and how to check them out from the library and, spoiler alert, that’s still how I get my books! Lately I’ve been loving audiobooks – my brain has been struggling a bit, so audiobooks are a great way to keep reading even when head isn’t in the best spot. I’m also focusing on books by Black authors right now, I try to have a nice variety of topics and I think I have a pretty good balance at the moment. Here’s what I currently have checked out.

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (audiobook) – If you’re unfamiliar with Janet Mock, she’s an amazing trans activist, writer, director and more. This autobiography is so beautifully written but I’ll be honest, I had to take a little break due to some pretty graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse.

Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper (audiobook) – I haven’t started this one yet but I’m so excited to dive in. I’m actually reading it with a Facebook group and I’m eager to discuss it with them.

You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson (audiobook) – I’m about halfway through this one and really enjoying it! It’s a nice balance of humor, pop culture, conversations about race, and autobiography. I have never listened to the Two Dope Queens podcast, but I’m glad I decided to pick this one up. It’s nice when I need something a little lighter.

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (ebook) – I’ve been watching a lot of Trevor Noah clips lately and had the pleasure of seeing him live this past February so when I saw his book while I was browsing Libby I knew I had to place a hold! Thankfully I finally got my hands on a copy and am so excited to get started.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (audiobook) – Somehow I’ve never read this book, and what better time to start than now?

And just for fun, here’s what’s on my “Holds” list (but clearly I have enough to keep me busy for a couple of weeks with the above books!)

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Untamed by Glennon Doyle (not by a Black author, but it’s been on my list for some time now)

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal Marie Fleming

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

And lastly, if you need some resources for being a good ally and/or learning more about racial injustice in this country here are some good starting points:

http://bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

https://alittlebrittoffun.com/anti-blackness

13th (documentary directed by Ava DuVernay) – available on Netflix or free on Youtube

What’s on your reading list right now?

xoxo Valery

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The movement first made its presence felt in California more than two decades ago, then built its forces amid the protests against the Iraq war.

Out of the sea of largely peaceful antiwar demonstrators marching in San Francisco’s Financial District in 2003, a more militant subgroup emerged. Its members wore black masks, black jackets, black hoods and helmets. They smashed windows and looted military recruitment offices.

Since then, the so-called black bloc protesters have become a force in the Bay Area and beyond. They have been blamed for violence during protests in Oakland over corporate power and police abuse, notably the case of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man who was killed by BART police in 2009.

Scorned by critics on both the left and right and hunted by police, the black bloc is bringing its radical tactics to the massive protest movement sparked by the presidency of Donald Trump.

The masked militants went fist to fist with neo-Nazis at the state Capitol in June, where five of their allies were stabbed. Black bloc tactics also dogged Trump’s inaugural ceremonies in Washington, leaving broken windows, vandalized banks and a torched limo.

And early this month on the UC Berkeley campus, black bloc militants tore down police barricades, broke windows, started a fire and assaulted Trump supporters.

They represented a small percentage of the 1,000 mostly nonviolent demonstrators who went to Berkeley to protest a speech by controversial Breitbart columnist and conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos, but they dominated the outcome.

             People protest the appearance of Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos in Berkeley. (Ben Margot / Associated Press)                  

The university had been determined to allow the event in the name of free speech. Within minutes of the bloc’s assault on the building where the speech would be held, officials shut it down.

The protests earned rebukes from students, university administrators and Trump.

The angry vice chancellor called the melee an “unprecedented invasion” of an otherwise peaceful protest.

But some leaders of the campus protest called it a smashing success.

“It wasn’t just people dressed in black who were acting militantly and everyone else is peace-loving Berkeley hippies,” said Yvette Felarca, a political organizer of By Any Means Necessary, an immigration and affirmative action coalition that seeks to build a mass militant movement.

“Everyone cheered when those barricades were dismantled. ... Everyone was there with us in political agreement of the necessity of shutting it down, whatever it was going to take. It shows we have the power,” Felarca said. “I thought it was quite stunning.”

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The term “black bloc” was used to describe the tight wedges of black-clad protesters in helmets and masks who appeared in street demonstrations in Germany in the 1970s, confounding efforts to single out, identify and prosecute individuals.

                 I go through the Bay Area and there are people sleeping in the doorways of million-dollar condos that are empty. ... Is that not violent?      — Bay Area black bloc militant                        

Its aim was, and still is, direct action. Practitioners care little for speech or to shape public opinion, and the media are held in disdain, as are liberals who espouse nonviolence.

Members operate in small squads that organize themselves around flags during the havoc of a protest. Many are anarchists, and anarchist websites such as It’s Going Down provide a public platform for reports from the underground.

They say they battle police brutality, corporate greed, immigration bans and erosion of civil liberties. The Bay Area has provided a fertile base for the group, especially Oakland, birthplace to the armed militias of the Black Panther movement.

“I subscribe to self-defense in the very same sense that the Black Panther Party does and that Malcolm X does,” said a veteran Bay Area black bloc militant who spoke on the condition that he not be named because much of the group’s actions are illegal.

He described himself as an employed college graduate, the product of youth incarceration and a household where street respect — not pacifism — was preached.

“Which means for me to recognize one type of violence, which is people being beat up for having certain types of political views and being brazen about them, compared  to the everyday violence ... like I go through the Bay Area and there are people sleeping in the doorways of million-dollar condos that are empty. ... Is that not violent?” he said. “That is the most cruel and violent thing I think I have ever seen.”

The UC Berkeley protest was a call to arms for him and others. For months, protesters on campuses across the country have sought to shut down Yiannopoulos’ provocative college shows, in which he ridicules transgender people, immigrants who are in the country illegally and others.

Yiannopoulos, permanently banned from Twitter for racist and misogynist posts, denies allegations he is a white supremacist.

             Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus at the University of Colorado in Boulder. (Jeremy Papasso / AP)                  

In the weeks leading up to the Berkeley event, campus administrators made clear their intent to allow the controversial speaker, part of a larger state university system’s adoption of the ACLU mantra to “combat hate speech with more speech.”

After a Yiannopoulos supporter shot a protester during demonstrations in Seattle, UC Berkeley responded to the rising threat of violence by pulling in officers from nine other campuses.

They stayed inside the barricaded Student Union building during most of the protest, arguing that to intervene would have escalated the violence. The effect instead was to raise the ante for the black bloc.

“They were going to allow it to happen until they determined that it was too dangerous for it to actually happen,” the black bloc member said. “So what other choice did we have?”

Berkeley put the blame for the violence at the Yiannopoulos event squarely on the black bloc faction, which campus police said numbered 100 to 150 members.

They “marched onto campus and began immediately throwing rocks, M-80s flares and Molotov cocktails at our officers and the crowd,” UC Berkeley Police Department Sgt. Sabrina Reich said.

Videos show black bloc members using firecrackers as a shield to get close to the Student Union, where they pulled down barricades. They took turns whacking at its windows with their sticks, rocks and the crowd-control barriers themselves. The bulk of the blows were directed at the Amazon store.

Videos also show black bloc members tackling and assaulting Yiannopoulos supporters.

There is a strategy behind much of the smashing, according to interviews and published manifestos.

The bloc pushes back against police lines, opening and holding space for mass demonstrations as police seek to corral and disperse the crowd. They draw pepper spray, rubber bullets and other uses of force. They say they focus destruction on standard-bearers of capitalism: Bank machines and a campus Starbucks were hit after Berkeley called off the Yiannopoulos speech.

             Rioters loot and vandalize a Starbucks store during a protest against Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos in Berkeley. (Noah Berger / European Pressphoto Agency)                  

“Starbucks is a symbol of global capitalization,” the black bloc member said.

Those activists interviewed expressed no remorse for the property damage. They said it should pressure the university to think twice about allowing such events in the future. They hold the same regard for violence against people.

Bloc activists accompanying demonstrators against a white nationalist rally at the Capitol in Sacramento in the summer were met by white supremacists armed with knives.

Two law enforcement agencies continue to investigate the June 26 clash. Five people were stabbed, all on the side of the antifa, the anti-fascist movement. One was Felarca, who said assailants used box cutters and knives taped to their protest sticks. She required 24 stitches in her arm and head.

Sacramento police said they had been warned about the intent for violence, but they felt unable to stop it and after the fact, thwarted from investigating.

Within the anti-fascist movement, blog posts admonish wounded protesters not to speak to police.

Felarca and other activists said there is no official coordination with the black bloc, but there is covert communication between longtime street allies. Sometimes it is broadcast to the world, such as Facebook event invitations that call for participants to bring bandannas and other safeguards against pepper spray.

But they do recruit. An anarchist group is hosting a two-day conference in Oakland and San Francisco next month to draw newcomers. The black bloc member said he hopes it will help more people find the movement.

“The people I see coming in are curious about what this direct politics looks like. They have come up in the post-Oscar Grant, post-Occupy sort of political environment,” the member said. “In the next few years, they’re going to get their wings and they’ll start flying.”

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Black Lives Matter: 57 Racism Awareness Books, Movies, Resources and More

The past week has been a heavy one. The reality of anti-Black racism in the US, Canada and around the world is no secret. But over the last several days, the outrage over repeated and systemic violence against Black people reached a boiling point, fuelled by a recent spate of police brutality. In response, white people and other non-Black folk around the world are taking it upon themselves—finally—to educate themselves to be better allies, to unlearn generations of internalized racism, and to attempt to become the anti-racist citizens the world needs in order to have a chance at lasting change.

The past week may have been a wake-up call for some but the truth is, nothing about this is new. This is what Black communities have been living with for centuries. As Roxane Gay writes in a recent op-ed for the New York Times, about the post-pandemic status quo people are hoping to return to: “The rest of the world yearns to get back to normal. For Black people, normal is the very thing from which we yearn to be free.”

If you’re a non-Black person who has never fully engaged with the reality of systemic racism due to your own privilege, it’s on you to educate yourself. Read on for a list of films, television shows, books, social media accounts and other resources to turn to in the coming weeks, months and years to understand better the history of anti-Black racism.

FILMS & TV SHOWS 13th, Ava DuVernay (Netflix) Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler (on demand) The Hate U Give, George Tillman Jr. (Crave) Ninth Floor, Mina Shum (National Film Board of Canada) Selma, Ava DuVernay (on demand) I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck (Amazon Prime Video) If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins (Amazon Prime Video) Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee (on demand) Just Mercy, Destin Daniel Cretton (on demand) Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu (on demand) Watchmen, Damon Lindelof (Crave) Journey to Justice, Roger McTair (National Film Board of Canada) Les Misérables, Ladj Ly (on demand) When They See Us, Ava DuVernay (Netflix) BlackKklansmen, Spike Lee (Crave) The Good Fight, Robert King, Michelle King and Phil Alden Robinson (on demand) Beyond Moving, Vikram Dasgupta (Hot Docs Canada) The Colour of Beauty, Elizabeth St. Philip (National Film Board of Canada)

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I got to spend time with my WHEN THEY SEE US family yesterday and every minute was a joy. Netflix screened our film and we had a beautiful talk afterward moderated by my dear friend JJ. Then, our brilliant composer Kris played his piano live with images from the film projected above him. Magnificent. And my stellar teammates from @arraynow were in the house for it all – which made it even better. Earlier in the day, we were honored with four awards by @aafca. It was one of those days that at the end of it, you just smile, basking in the light of friends and loved ones. Hugs to all. xo Styling: @jasonbolden @starburleigh Makeup: @adamburrell Hair: @ladysoulfly

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BOOKS White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Me and White Supremacy, Layla F Saad Born a Crime, Trevor Noah Becoming, Michelle Obama The Color Purple, Alice Walker I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi Sulwe, Lupita Nyong’o Beloved, Toni Morrison

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Sneak preview of the paperback cover of #girlwomanother! Published 5 March 2020. In case you're wondering, the hardback cover design was too subtle to stand out in the smaller pbk size. I was staggered to discover this week that the novel was the 12th bestseller for hardback fiction in the UK for 2019, and only one of two books on the list that are not 'mass market big-hitters' (Lee Child, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen King, JoJo Moyes, Le Carre, etc) – although all bestsellers become just that. So – the surreality of Being Bookered (and Baracked) continues. My work is reaching readers who wouldn't normally encounter it or want to read it. Barriers are coming down and my 12 womxn are flying off into a life of their own. #ase #grateful #bookstagram #books #penguinbooks #bookclubofinstagram #booklover #bernardineevaristo

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SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, writer and activist (Instagram) Deray Mckesson, activist (Twitter) Brittany Packnett, activist (Twitter) Tyrone Rex Edwards, reporter (Instagram) Tracy Peart, makeup artist (Instagram) Nikki Ogunnaike, Deputy Fashion Director, GQ (Instagram) Nikole Hannah Jones, journalist (Twitter) Donte Colley, influencer (Instagram) Mustafa the Poet, poet and songwriter (Instagram) Danielle Prescod, Style Director, BET (Instagram) Kathleen Newman-Bremang, writer (Twitter) Roxane Gay, writer (Twitter) Shannae Ingleton Smith, entrepreneur (Instagram) Sasha Exeter, influencer (Instagram)

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Swipe for resources. • Racial justice is a feminist issue and the deep disparity in how white women showed up for “all women” at the women’s march but haven’t showed up in the millions for the current uprising speaks to the @harpersbazaarus article I wrote back in 2018 titled “When Feminism Is White Supremacy In Heels” • My work has always been done through the intersected lens of race and womanhood. You can find more resources from me on this topic in my bio including the link to my article and the link to my recorded lecture Unpacking White Feminism. • White women I am demanding you tap into the radical empathy I mentioned in my public address yesterday. Move past “I’m so sorry this is happening to you” and ask yourself “how do I play into the pain the black community is doing and how do I hold myself and my community accountable for enacting justice?” Ask yourself what moved you to show up on the streets in 2017 but isn’t lighting a fire in you in this very moment. • Do you hear me? Drop a comment/emoji and tag who needs to hear this • #revolutionnow #manifest #racism #blm #soul #spirit #yoga #crystals #essentialoils #goodvibes #goddess #yoga #retreat #yogaretreat #seattle #nyc #la #marieforleo #gabriellebernstein #spiritual #success #lifecoach #bookclub #nyc #lululemon #doterra #wanderlust #teachersofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #catsofinstagram

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PODCASTS Still Processing, hosted by Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris (The New York Times) Pod Save the People, hosted by Deray Mckesson (Crooked Media) 1619, hosted by Nikole Hannah Jones (The New York Times) Code Switch, hosted by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby (NPR) Code Black, co-founded by Renee Duncan, Bunmi Adeoye and Maxine McDonald (Code Black Communicator Network)

TODAY: @PodSaveThePpl's @deray & @ClintSmithIII are going live to discuss art and activism. 3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT on Crooked's Instagram. https://t.co/2XfIGABtN2 pic.twitter.com/udABQrbPoA

— Crooked Media (@crookedmedia) June 1, 2020

RESOURCES By Blacks (Instagram) Black Art 365 (Instagram) The Conscious Kid (Instagram) Black Artist Space (Instagram) Black Lives Matter (Instagram) Black Lives Matter Toronto (Twitter) Gal-Dem Zine (Instagram)

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The Notebook- Allie tells Lon