Allyship Check-In No 37

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: gun legislation (i.e., the lack thereof), preparing for Pride in a queer-attacking landscape, debt sentences, supporting the WGA strike 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:

I Stand with the Banned in PEN America v Book Bans

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

Use these resources as a starting point to support the WGA Strike!
Read up on the We Owe You Nothing series, hosted by The Debt Collective and Prism, which “look[s] at four different kinds of significant debt: student loan debt, medical debt, carceral debt, and renters’ debt.”
Support Florida Rising, a group who are “advancing economic and racial justice across Florida”.
Join to “Unite Against Book Bans”

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 support the striking workers of WGA.

Support Financially

Florida Rising (referenced in the “Get Engaged section)

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!

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