The hosts take time to discuss the protests around the country in response to the murder of George Floyd, police brutality, and how (and why) it matters for EVERYONE, in fandom and out.
Resources for those who want to learn more:
Places to donate:
– https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
– Minnesota Freedom Fund
– https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
– Black Visions Collective
– Reclaim the Block
– Northstar Health Collective (medics)
– Bail funds in your city
– Mutual aid funds
– If you read a Black person’s tweets and learned something, PAY THEM
Educate yourself:
– How to be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
– So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
– White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
– Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
– The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
– The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
– Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
– The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
– Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
– White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson
– Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
– This Vogue UK list : https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/black-lives-matter-reading-list
– This list: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/understanding-and-dismantling-racism-booklist-white-readers
– The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
– They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
Other media:
– NYT 1619 Project – there’s a podcast along with multiple essays
– 13th – documentary dir. Ava DuVernay
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