A Collaborative Effort:
Davidson Microaggressions Project & Common Ground
“Lets Talk About It: A Gateway to Anti-Racism” was started in June of 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd and the revolution that has followed. This web series is focused on centering the work and voices of black activists and organizers, and being a base for people to access resources, have discussion, and ask critical questions without asking for the labor of black folx. Being an anti-racist is not something someone accomplishes through one action, but is instead a repetitive action and a critical lens to view the world through. This web series is meant to encourage viewers to not only start this work, but continue it throughout their lives.”
JUNE 2020
- June 4th – The Master’s Tools will never dismantle the Master’s house by Audre Lorde (linked here)
- June 11th – Y’all Better Quiet Down by Sylvia Rivera (linked here)
- June 18th – Nobel Prize Speech by Toni Morrison (linked here)
- June 25th – Controlling Images and Black Women’s Oppression by Patricia Hill Collins (linked here)
JULY 2020
- July 2 – Why We Don’t Vote by W.E.B. Du Bois (linked here)
- July 9 – No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison (linked here)
- July 16 – The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X (linked here)
- July 23 – Who Gets to be Afraid in America by Ibram X. Kendi (linked here)
- July 30 – Black Women Shaping Feminist Theory by bell hooks
Let’s Talk About It: A Gateway to Anti-Racism
Thursdays 8 p.m. EST on Instagram Live @dcmicroaggressions
List of Additional Texts of Interest:
- The Master’s Tools will never dismantle the Master’s house Audre Lorde
- Y’all Better Quiet Down by Sylvia Rivera
- Nobel Prize Speech by Toni Morrison
- Controlling Images and Black Women’s Oppression by Patricia Hill Collins
- The Invention of Women by Oyewumi
- History Will Absolve Me by Fidel Castro
- No Place for Self Pity, No Room For Fear by Toni Morrison
- Why I Won’t Vote by W. E. B. DuBois
- America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us by Adam Sewer
- Ella Baker and The Black Freedom Movement
- My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas
- The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston
- Who Gets To Be Afraid in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- White Privilege and Male Privilege by Peggy McIntosh
- WOC Struggle for Reproductive Justice by Silliman et al.
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
List of Books:
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stephenson
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Sources provided by:
Bry Reed (Venmo: BryReed, Cashapp: $BryR)
Rachel Cargle (Venmo: rachelcargle, PayPal: paypal.me/rachelcargle, Cashapp: $rcargle)
Other resources, edited and updated regularly:
Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives – access here.
Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources – access here.
Indigenous Action Media – accomplices not allies zine – access here.
