This week Maggie and Harmony read the article "Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us" by Roxane Gay and use the article as a baseline for a discussion on allyship to the Black Lives Matter movement. They also read "For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies," by Courtney Ariel,  "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" by Brit Bennett, and use an excerpt from Untamed byGlennon Doyle Melton. In this episode, our hosts, with the help of the aforementioned texts, attempt to tackle white complicity, fragility, and silence and explore anti-racist action.

Links to the texts:

"Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us" by Roxane Gay

https://nyti.ms/2Y7iyCx

"For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies," by Courtney Ariel

https://bit.ly/2BJ3vrn

  "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" by Brit Bennett

https://bit.ly/2Y97Awj

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

https://bit.ly/30hyRQ2

Referenced in the episode:

https://n.pr/30ckGf3

https://wapo.st/3dDfZPi

https://bit.ly/3cDwadZ

https://bit.ly/2ANWBAh

Resource list

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://bit.ly/2XCLZgD

What we're reading:

Parable of the Talentsby Octavia E. Butler

https://bit.ly/30ctEZH

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd 

https://bit.ly/3eUFUC8

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

https://bit.ly/2XCM8AH

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

https://bit.ly/3cGsIiT

They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

https://bit.ly/3dDgtVC

Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga

https://bit.ly/2BJ4HLn

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by TERF-who-must-not-be-named

https://bit.ly/3cLosic

To follow our episode schedule go here https://bit.ly/2XF5uW7 You can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

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