ANTI-RACIST WORK
In my on-going learning to be an anti-racist ally, here are the resources I’m listening to and following. Some I’m yet to listen to and have recently followed from suggestions of my amazing community. Not all are activists but people using their voice. Please remember that sustainability and human rights go hand in hand.
This will be a list that’s changes with my learning. Do send me your recommendations and join me in conversation.
AAPI
In light of the uprise in racist attacks towards the AAPI community I want everyone to be clear where we stand on this.
Fly By Night is a safe space of love and not hate. The love for other humans, the beauty in diversity and the respect for cultures constantly hurt and wounded by white supremacy. I will always stand with the AAPI community and continue my own personal education against white supremacy.
Resources
Instagram:
Russell Brand interview with Kehinde Andrews Professor of Black Studies
Books:
Please note I have not added sites to buy, apart from the free download. Please seek out your local Black-Owned Bookshop to buy.
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
White Fragility By Robin DiAngelo
This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jenkins
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Novel)
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
I’m Still Here, Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Stamped from the Beginning - by Ibram X Kendi (Currently free on Spotify)
How to talk about race By Ijeoma Oluo
Waking Up White By Debby Irving
White Negroes By Lauren Michele Jackson
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot By Mikki Kendall
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 By Göran Olsson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson
Pre-Order Available: Real Friends Talk About Race By Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana & Hannah Summerhill
Children’s Books
I am Golden By Eva Chen
A is for Activist By Innosanto Nagara
The Skin I’m In By Pat Thomas & Lesley Harker
The Colours of Us By Karen Katz
Anti-Racist Baby By Ibram X. Kendi
Little Dreamers: Visionary Woman Around The World by Vashti Harrison
A is for Awesome By Eva Chen
Think Big Little One By Vashti Harrison
Little Feminist Collection By Emily Kleinman
All Are Welcome By Alexandra Penfolk & Suzanna Kaufman
Shows
I have added this section after customer, Amanda Reed messaged me with a great idea that she likes to suggest to people. To watch Black TV & Movies that aren’t centered around Black pain, suffering, and trauma to help overcome unconscious bias, assumptions, and stereotypes. These were her suggestions and a couple of others from my community.
TV:
Insecure (HBO)
Living Single (Hulu)
I May Destroy You (HBO)
Girlfriends (Netflix)
Blackish
Movies:
Brown Sugar
Waiting to Exhale
Moonlight
The Best Man