How to Take Care of Each Other: Community Care In Times Of Crisis
“When we’ve all broken past the fear of being burdens on others, when we as communities learn how to ask for and give help and support, we’ll be able to take care of each other.”
Sunday Funday is Wishing Breonna Taylor a Happy Birthday!
Happy (belated) birthday Breonna Taylor, let’s celebrate you! Leave your birthday wishes in the comments, share your favorite videos of Black joy, drop a playlist, donate her family’s GoFundMe. Let’s show her, and Black girls everywhere just how much we love them.
Black Rage as Catharsis
White supremacy thrives off of keeping us obsessed with respectability, when there is nothing respectable about kneeling on a man’s neck while he cries for his life. There is a time for everything, and right now is a time for rage.
Extra! Extra!: America Is Anti-Black, but We’re Fighting Like Hell to Change That
This week’s Extra! Extra! looks at police instigating even more violence at protests about police violence, can we defund the police altogether, Iyanna Dior, and the meaning of voting when America is inherently built on anti-Blackness.
What’s Stuck In Your Mind: An Open Thread for BIPOC Folks
What is the flavor of your grief? What has given you a boost, made your day, rubbed you all the wrong ways or is making you ask new questions? Black, Indigenous, and other people of color: what’s caught in your head?
Principles of Pride: Police and Prisons Do Not Belong in Our Future
Legacies intersect in this Pride month to remind us that defunding the police system is both a historically Black and historically queer demand, and that disruption and direct action can get that demand met.
Copwatching 101: Keep Your Eyes Open, Keep Your Neighbors Safe
The state and police as agents of it often surveil communities of color and immigrant communities as a tactic of control, reminding people they’re being watched so they stay in line; white people have the power to surveil police to the same effect.
Also.Also.Also: Citizen Telling LA Police Chief “Suck My Dick and Choke On It” On Zoom Call Truly Speaks For Us All
The thread of videos of police violence against peaceful protestors is miles long now, over 10k protesters have been arrested, Trump sheds more allies, Kristen Stewart marches with BLM, Public Health officials know anti-Black police violence is a national health crisis and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: The Work Is Bigger than Backorder
Readings and reading lists on Black radicalism, dismantling white supremacy, antiracism, police brutality and more.
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Support Black Community With Your Money: A Living Index of Local Mutual Aid Efforts
This post is a living document. If you are looking to donate to vetted groups or individuals currently providing community care, we encourage you to use this list as a resource. And if you are looking for any variety of care – food, shelter, COVID-19 testing, or other organizing efforts – we hope these options will be a good starting place for you to find what you need.
Stop Asking Me If I’m Okay
In a time where Black people are experiencing new and old collective trauma whenever they scroll through Instagram, please stop asking us if we’re okay. We are not.
Bed-Stuy Strong: How to Start a 3,000-Member Neighborhood Mutual Aid Network
“Nobody may come to help us in time; we are all we’ve got. We need to organize, quickly, online, and geographically.”
A Black, Queer Reflection on The Civil Rights Movement and the Unfinished Project of Freedom
The work of civil rights history is queer and feminist. It’s also a hard, rough, incomplete project.
Black August: A Feminist and Queer Syllabus for Black Liberation
There’s a long and proud Black radical history of fighting back against the prison industrial complex and criminal (in)justice systems. So why is it that most of the voices that are upheld come from cis men?
How to Never Call the Cops Again: A Guide with a Few Alternatives to Calling Police
If we want to move towards a police-free, abolitionist future, we have to do everything we can create an abolitionist reality right now – which starts with not calling the police into our own communities.
#BlackLivesMatter: A Longform Reading List
Fifty years of words I liked reading and you will too! Authors include James Baldwin, bell hooks, Kiese Laymon, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin and Dr. Brittany Cooper.
Also.Also.Also: Police Brutality Rages at Protests Against Police Brutality — What’s Happening Now and How To Help
In today’s Also.Also.Also link roundup: many accounts of police violence against protesters, and resources for educating yourself, supporting black businesses, providing jail support, donating to mutual aid funds and more.
Keep It On The DL Encourages Community Members to Share Tips and Resources for Distance Learning
All people deserve the right to continue their education regardless of their ability to sit in a physical classroom. Accessibility should never determine a child’s ability to learn.
Police and Prison Abolition 101: A Syllabus and FAQ
The work around decarceration has been some of the most successfully documented, accessible, and digitally interactive of any movement. This is a guide to guides, organized loosely by some of the main questions and thought processes that often come up around entry into abolitionist thinking, offering resources addressing some important ideas.
74 Bail Funds You Can Absolutely Support Right Now
Donate to a bail fund. We don’t have to wait for others to commit to upholding the value of Black life and materially improve the lives of Black people. We can take care of each other instead.