i have to watch this boring ass webinar for work and it’s an hour and a half long about technical services and catalog records like there are so many other actual useful things i could be doing with my time right now i want to scream
i forgot to make an important update for anyone who cares: i gave up
i have to watch this boring ass webinar for work and it’s an hour and a half long about technical services and catalog records like there are so many other actual useful things i could be doing with my time right now i want to scream
i have to watch this boring ass webinar for work and it’s an hour and a half long about technical services and catalog records like there are so many other actual useful things i could be doing with my time right now i want to scream
i have to watch this boring ass webinar for work and it’s an hour and a half long about technical services and catalog records like there are so many other actual useful things i could be doing with my time right now i want to scream
“I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but fuck that. Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process, we don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. Every black person in here remembered when another person reminded you that you were black. So none of you out there, all those protesters on the other side, protesting against what we want to do, protesting against what we want to try and achieve, burn you, this is so vital. I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that was never the case anymore.” John Boyega at The Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park June 3rd 2020
i guess the last think ill say is ppl gotta stop acting like being a good progressive is about playing a constant game of tag to avoid being called out for racism or homophobia or ableism or w/e. we are all guiltly of perpetuating harmful attitudes. theres no point in getting defensive about being criticized for them, bc the goal cannot be to remain blameless since that was impossible from the start. the real makings of a person capable of the solidarity and integrity needed to work for change is someone who knows they are fallible and that self change is necessary and ongoing.
Okay let me say it again but where it makes a bit more sense for you nonblacks. Creating fanart of characters saying black lives matter or participating in the black lives matter movement, shows others that you have some disconnect with the real world that you are unable to consume real problems and real fucking issues through a lens that isn't fictional. Like at some point you need to be able to take shit head on and learn about real issues that's not YA media. Not everything is Harry Potter or omg that's so like the Hunger Games. Like no! Keep that shit to yourself because my people are fucking dying out there and I don't need to see Hermione Granger waving a black power fist because you never learned to grow up and learn some tact!
Supporting black authors is something that I definitely need to start doing more, so I’ve compiled a list of 80 YA books by black authors. I’m putting the ones that I’ve read at the top in bold, and the rest will be books that I have looked up and have put on my list to read. I can’t do much to change what’s going on in our world right now, but I can do my part to support the black community in any way that I can. These are in no particular order and please feel free to add more!
