“Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us”: Understanding and responding to the George Floyd uprisings

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 by Glennon 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 Talents by 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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