A few resources to help, learn, and promote:
TO HELP AND DONATE:
Black Lives Matter carrd with info, petitions, donation sites they recommend, and readings they suggest
President Obama’s List of orgs to help, things to read, and ways to get engaged
Black-led LGBTQ+ Organizations posted by Alexis Michelle
TO LEARN AND UNLEARN:
5 Ways to Take Action for all non-black people by The Conscious Kid
10-Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper
How to Be Actively Anti-Racist by Good Good Good Co
Victoria Alexander’s recommendations on Anti-Racist Literature
TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE:
Abelle Hayford’s #drawingwhileblack Directory of Black Creatives to hire
Author Oge Mora’s List of Children’s Books by Black Authors - also check out Oge Mora’s beautiful books!
A Twitter Thread from Melissa See on Black YA novels
Karina Yan Glasser’s 100 Must-Read Children’s Books by African-American Authors
10 Black-Owned Online Bookstores to buy all these lovely books from!
River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves photographed by Gus Van Sant
get to know me meme: [03/10] » favorite animations: my neighbor totoro (1988)
Totoro, I beg you, please protect Mei. She’ll be lost, and probably scared. Please believe me, I’ll be good for the rest of my life if I can just see her again.
La belle et la bête (1946).
“For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
16. light/dark
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games.