Pride Poetry: Exploring work from Danez Smith and Vita E.

This week Harmony and Maggie celebrate pride by reflecting on marginalized communities and the right for everyone to feel comfortable, safe, and loved in their own skin and identities. They explored two poems, “dear white America” by Danez Smith and “The Company You Keep: a Poem for my Family” by Vita E.
In this episode:
HRC
https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2020
“dear white america”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150542/dear-white-america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnVW3Lixbw
On the poplar tree:
https://polygrafi.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/strange-fruit-hanging-from-the-poplar-trees-blood-on-the-leaves/
“The Company You Keep: a Poem for my Family”
https://twocpoetry.tumblr.com/post/154811931314/the-company-you-keep-a-poem-for-my-family
Vita E.’s Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO9ZI06PVlcWrI-D3ePSg9w
Where you should donate:
GWORLS
https://linktr.ee/FORTHEGWORLSPARTY
Trans Women of Color Survival Fund
https://www.twocc.us/media/survival/
Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund
https://twitter.com/BTFAcollective/status/1267853959378731023
The Okra Project
https://www.theokraproject.com/
What We’re Reading: 
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
https://bit.ly/30ctEZH
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
https://bit.ly/2XCM8AH
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13214.I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by The TERF-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix
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
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