symbiont collection 03/27/21

Hello, y’all. I hope you are holding yourselves and your people close. I am holding you close! Here are a few things I’ve found beautiful or meaningful in the last bit.

some specifically connected to grief and rage and solidarity after Atlanta:

a fund (closes EOD 3/28) specifically for families of Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng; correct pronunciation of the Chinese and Korean-language names; a statement you can sign on to advocating for solutions rooted in the community (i.e. not more policing); a vigil from Red Canary Song; Roxane Gay on a white man’s bad day

and others:

• Short videos on “Building Accountable Communities”

• An essay about bird murals in Harlem (+ mentions WHEELS, where I taught)

• Digital Blackface concise analysis from Slow Factory (if you use gifs, read it)

• Grief Deck: images and prompts offered for people in the midst of loss

• Collection of zines from Dean Spade (scroll through to “examples”)

• Petition to close Mt. Rushmore and Return All Public Lands in the Black Hills to the Oceti Sakowin

• Drawings for my Grandchildren from Korean grandparents Chan & Marina

+updates: our sweet and powerful study+practice group for Reading, Writing, and Racism wraps up April 8 (y’all, we had the author come to a session!). Next group will be around Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times. If that looks good and you want to read and practice with rad others, snag a copy and stay tuned <3.

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