Via Indigenous Action.  Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex This provocation is intended to intervene in some of the current tensions around solidarity/support work as the current trajectories are counter-liberatory from my perspective. Special thanks to DS in Phoenix for convos that lead to this ‘zine and all those who provided comments/questions/disagreements. Don’t … Read More

Via Indy Week.  Are You Afraid of Black Feminists? Or Just Your Own Freedom? BY ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free, since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.” —  Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 This weekend at … Read More

Via Forge.  Performative Allyship Is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead) Activism can’t begin and end with a hashtag By Holiday Phillips OnMay 25, George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes as Floyd gasped, “I can’t breathe.” On March 13, Breonna Taylor was … Read More

Via Medium. What I Think About When I Hear That Broadway is Racist By Heathcliff Saunders The Blacker the Body, the Sweeter the Juice. That’s me. In Hairspray. photo credit: John Pai I’m a musical theater writer. I look pretty unusual in the world of musical theater writers, in the sense that I am not a … Read More

Via Medium.  Letting Go: 8 Years After Losing My Life Partner to Police Violence By Brandon D. Anderson Well before I was born, my grandfather, Foster, organized a group of Black business owners against police harassment. Grandpa Foster owned a nightclub in Oklahoma City where police had harassed him and his customers, threatening their safety so … Read More