“10 Steps to Being an Ally to Marginalized Groups”
So you want to be an ally–yay! But what exactly does that mean?
By @Sherry_Kappel
OHF Weekly Managing Editor
Ok frens, can we close this out today? I'm stuck at73% funded. This is for my health and safety at home! The sooner the better! Housemates tainted my food and I have to buy my own fridge and other needs. @disability@writing@poetry@blackmastodon Australian, UK, NZ folks I'm hoping to get some help with a boost or donation. Thank you all.
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July starts next week and we (disabled Black queer women & trans femme partner looking for work) just don't have the money to pay for housing or utilities. Please help if you can! We need $3500!
Saturday, June 22, would have been Octavia Butler's 77th birthday (the acclaimed writer died from a fall at age 58 in 2004). Artist Alison Saar has now created a collectible handcrafted edition of Butler's classic, genre-defying 1979 novel, "Kindred," in collaboration with publisher Arion Press. She and Arion creative director Blake Riley spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle about the process of creating the book, which includes 14 original linocuts and is made from a type of paper that Saar says, “looks like cotton that still has some seed and stem in it, the kind of leftover, rougher cotton that enslaved people would be allowed to keep to make their own clothes.”
@davidhmccoy@TheConversationUS@blackmastodon The implication being that you can't find out the black experience by, say, talking to black people and then believing what they say.
My dad had Black Like Me on his bookshelf, as a psychologist. It wasn't merely professional, either. Our Irish ancestry has a darker skin tone than normal, but still 'white', and afro-textured black hair. In the service at the end of WWII he was denied restrooms in Georgia.
I find the inference that posing as black for discovery is just another form of blackface to be very interesting, and a tell of racism, realized or not, within the speaker themself. It's also interesting see how people want to form the line of color on a spectrum that is largely seamless.
Great piece by D. Danyelle Thomas @blackmastodon#StopGenocide#Juneteenth
"No one can truly thrive in a persistently barren land without anything to sustain living. Although there is little in which to take solace, we are not without hope."
💛 “Losing, Reclaiming, and Reconciling My Religion with My Sexuality”
After twenty-two years of searching and trying to make myself into what “I” thought everyone else, including God, wanted me to be, the Lord spoke to me in a manner that was uniquely his own.
—@clayrivers
💛 “The Jim Crow Era Was Never ‘Happy Times’ for Black People”
By @clayrivers
Despite what you may have heard in the news lately, the period of Jim Crow was never nor can it ever be viewed as a period of benefit for Black families.
Last night, Major League Baseball legend Reggie Jackson was asked in a Fox Sports show about how he felt about returning to Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., for a Negro League tribute game. The 78-year-old, who started his MLB career in Birmingham in 1967, did not hold back. He told interviewer Alex Rodriguez about his experience of racial slurs and being denied entry to restaurants and hotels, in a city where the Ku Klux Klan was committing attacks of racial hatred. Here's the story from NBC, including the full video.