Pandemic iPhone Video Chat Series - Video #6: Black Women and Black Femmes Matter. Period.

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Some thoughts on the recent litany of online attacks directed at Black women and Black femmes who openly talk about white supremacy and anti-Blackness by white cis men, white cis women, and Black cis men. It’s time for white accomplices and other Black cis men to step in and check their fellow white people and Black cis men accordingly. This ain’t about being a savior - this is about being an anti-racist and anti-hate based human being.

Pandemic iPhone Chat Series - Video #5: Performative Allyship and The Curious Case of The Liberal Arts College

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Some thoughts on one of my former employers, Reed College, and how performative allyship and corporate PR statements are just another branch on the poplar tree of white supremacy. Real talk? I thought about not sharing this. But I slept on it and realized it needed to be shared and said.

Pandemic iPhone Chat Series - Video #4: "Tired" While White, Privileged, and Protesting

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Some thoughts on "white fatigue" and "privileged people fatigue" when it comes to speaking up for and defending the murder and harming of Black bodies as the protests for Black lives slowly fall out of the mainstream public eye.