Allyship Check-In No 36

Welcome to the latest in my Allyship Check-In series! This series shares resources to help each of us live more antiracist lives. It contains articles, blog posts, multimedia, book recommendations, petitions and more. I started this series in 2020 and am very glad I’ve kept up with it since.

These resources are curated by my own research and by sharing resources I’ve learned through, from various organizations, like: Anti-Racist Daily, Prism, The 19th, Them and more. I hope this Allyship Check-In allows you to find something below that speaks to you!

Also, please consider supporting these organizations above. While I am simply linking up and sharing articles, they are the ones doing the work: the research, the reporting, the writing, the editing, the labor.

Let’s support their work, especially financially, so they can continue to do it.

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Staying Informed

This month’s Allyship Check-in is, as usual, heavy with reading material. This month, it includes: restricting knowledge and the attacks on libraries, the rise of fascism in America, the continued attacks against Trans and queer folx, and more.

Readings

Getting Engaged

Petitions

Now that we spent the first part of this Allyship Check-In becoming informed, now it’s time to take action. Here’s a selection of petitions you can sign and make your voice heard.

Sign Your Name In Support of:

Join Us In Holding The Gun Industry Accountable
Demand to keep masks in healthcare

Take Action

On top of learning and signing petitions, I always want to include ways within this Allyship Check-In series to get even further engaged.

Find ways to deepen your involvement and support those groups, people and initiatives below already doing this work!

Get Engaged

Read The Combahee River Collective Statement, published in (1977)
Learn more about the student-led walk out in Florida, to protest the attacks against the trans and queer community
Listen to the first three episodes of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equity podcast, hosted by TransLash Media!
Watch this video about “organized abandonment” from the government

Donate

As always, I like to highlight different organizations, movements and areas to support financially in each Allyship Check-in, if you’re able. For 2023, I’ve decided to continue what I did in 2022. Therefore, I’ll commit to $20 a month to a different organization, for as long as it’s feasibly possible for me.

This month, I donated to TransFormations KC.

Support Financially

Support trans lives by donating to any of the following groups: TransFormations, Transgender Law Center and Point of Pride.
The Innocence Project: donate to “Be a part of the Innocence Project’s groundbreaking work to free innocent people and transform the legal system”
Social Equity Through Education Alliance: “Walkout 2 Learn (April 21st, 2023) is a 501(c)(3) statewide activation organized to produce immediate tangible benefits for every participant. With over 100 high schools, every HBCU, and 90% of Florida’s colleges bought-in so far, W2L is projected to be Florida’s largest student-led protest of all time.”
Donate to support Ralph Yarl’s recovery.

In Sum

Thank you for reading and engaging with this latest Allyship Check-In post! I hope you learned something new, deepened your knowledge about important issues and found different ways to get involved.

These posts are always my least viewed. But I hope they continue to be helpful for those who do engage in this work. And, maybe, those who haven’t started will be encouraged to!

A custom artowrk signature that reads, "Onward to Adventure, Nicole" with a feathered quill and inkpot bordering it.