Solidarity Resources MegaPost!
All the things, all the time
Meowdy folks! This is the place to find all of the resources we dig up for folk to use. Every category on here will be indexed at the top, and when you click you’ll be sent to the part of the post the thing is in.
The thanks for this collection go to various members of The Clowder, who bring them to us to we can share with others—and hopefully they get to the people who need them.
I’m currently running through the extensive backlog we have, so it’ll be a bunch of things at a time, and when I catch up it’ll be what we’ve done over each couple of weeks.
Note: keeping updated audio on a post like this is more than my current spoons can manage, apologies for that, I will add audio when I’m able.
But that’s enough of me, let’s get to the things!
Index - click an image to get to that section
Links start here!
A good resource on ableist language and replacements for them.
A helpful twitter thread on removing ableist language
And another one
Have yourself a game of Internalized Ableism Bingo:
A piece on avoiding ableist language and what to say instead
Impact vs. Intent: (2 min)
Why an Acknowledgement of Country is Important: (3 min read)
What Decolonization Is, and What It Means to Me: (5 min read
White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization: (10 min read)
Decolonization is not a Metaphor
Academic Robin DiAngelo: 'We have to stop thinking about racism as someone who says the N-word: (7 min read)
White Fragility? Naw, it’s White Hostility (5 min read)
Police and Prison Abolition 101: A Syllabus and FAQ (14 min read)
How to Never Call the Cops Again: A Guide with a Few Alternatives to Calling Police (9 min read)
George Floyd Solidarity In The Bay Area: Representation And Power
SURJ Toolkit: Calling People in Around "Violence"
How Can We Win by: Kimberly L. Jones:
Race, Anti-Blackness, and the Cherokee Nation: A Reading List
ANTIRACIST ALLYSHIP STARTER PACK
The Anti-Racist Starter Pack: 40 TV Series, Documentaries, Movies, TED Talks, and Books to Add to Your List
Anti-Racism Resources for Tabletop Games
How to be an Anti-Racist
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Envisioning a Non-Colonial, Anti-Orientalist World
#BlackLoveMatters
Some help on processing white feels:
7 Myths about Cultural Appropriation DEBUNKED!: (6 min watch)
Stop using the Pepe frog meme request
A guide on writing Alt Text for images to make things accessible for folks using screen readers and for times when the images on webpages fail to load.
Pride sign language (British Sign)
The Urgency of Intersectionality: (18 min watch)
Black Trans Prayer Book: acquire the book for $45 USD here and support Black Trans creators
Video of the evening-long interview event about the above, hosted by the editors and financed by Seattle Public Library
Five Things You Should Know About Racism: (6 min watch)
Why the term BIPOC is so complicated, explained by linguists: (12 min read)
Call it what it is: anti-blackness: (5 min read)
If Microaggressions Happened to White People: (3 min watch):
List of compiled resources via twitter:
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Amazing work compiling all of this info substack Lee! 🥰🥰🥰