#BLACKLIVESMATTER
I've been gathering things to read and research and thought I'd share them here, for #BlackOutTuesday, instead of putting a black square on the internet.
I've really been enjoying the different ideas and perspectives. Over New Year I did a Twitter cleanse, removing lots of rich white men, and large organisations, which was nice to start with. Now it's better.
I've been gathering things to read and research and thought I'd share them here, for #BlackOutTuesday, instead of putting a black square on the internet.
Listening to more Black voices on Twitter
I've really been enjoying the different ideas and perspectives. Over New Year I did a Twitter cleanse, removing lots of rich white men, and large organisations, which was nice to start with. Now it's better.
- NAACP - civil rights, founded 1909
- Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu - lawyer, political & women's rights activist
- Temi Mwale - racial justice campaigner, director
- Mangubadijarri Yanner - proud Gangalidda man from Moungibi
- Tart of Darkness - librarian, editor, Mary Poppins but Black and Queer
- walter been michael - assistant prof of English, author
- Ibram X. Kendi - history professor, author
- Aja Barber - writer and fashion consultant
- Reni Eddo-Lodge - author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
- Tressie McMillan Cottom - writer, sociologist, PhD
- Adrianne Russell - writer
- Joél Leon. - copywriter, storyteller
- Aniyia - inventor, systempreneur, musician
- Chanté - writer, host, creator
- tracy jumps to put jeans on - co-creator of Another Round podcast (a favourite of mine)
- Heben Nigatu - writer, co-creator of Another Round
- La Tanya S. Autry - cultural organizer, curator, art historian
- Tonya Nelson - director of arts technology, arts & culture addict
- Janine Francois - lecturer, PhD safer spaces, race, museums
- amelia - presenter, journalist
- Yamiche Alcindor - journalist, white house correspondent
- Ida Bae Wells - reporter, smart and thuggish
- Janelle Monáe, Cindi Mayweather - singer, actor, everything (?)
- John Boyega - actor
- EricaJoy - manager of engineers
- Kim Crayton [She/Her] - antiracist economist, tech critic, leadership coach
- I Can't Breathe...Dawn Butler MP - MP for Brent Central
- Taiwo Owatemi MP - Labour MP for Coventry NW
- Ilhan Omar - refugee, intersectional feminist, congresswoman
- Seyi Akiwowo - recovering politician, leadership
Reading
- Why I'm No Longer Talking to People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Helpful counterpoint: What's Missing from "White Fragility" by Lauren Michele Jackson on slate.com, via Kim Crayton
- Feel Free by Zadie Smith
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
- How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- See also: An Anti-Racist Reading List
- See also: Xendi's essays on The Atlantic
Listening
- Our National Conversation About Conversations About Race by Anna Holmes, Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda and Tanner Colby
- 1619 from the New York Times
- Seeing White from Scene On Radio from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University
- #causeascene POD by Kim Crayton
It's a start. Quite US-focussed, because I think maybe I'm more familiar with that landscape, having lived there a bit longer than the UK, but also because of media/movies/books etc. I'd like to find more Australian resources too, because I'm Australian, and if you're not Australian, you probably think Australians are racists, and, well, you're right. It's a colony and has a very dark racist history of genocide and oppression and exclusion of indigenous Australians.
I'VE BEEN ASLEEP.
I'VE BEEN ASLEEP.