Making friends on tumblr is weird. Itâs like âHi, I donât know where youâre from but I know your kinks and exactly how depressed you were last Tuesday.â
This has been making the rounds on twitter so I wanted to inform my tumblr followers about it too!
This week (June 14-20) people are encouraged to purchase two books by black authors to try and make the bestseller lists be full of black authors. If you canât afford to buy any books this week, try and request your local library to purchase some!
While we (booksellers, bookbloggers, authors, etc.) are focusing on this week specifically to boost black authors, make sure to support black authors year round too!
YALLWEST is donating $1 to the Okra Project (they bring home cooked and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans people) for every book you purchase by a black author between June 14-20 (up to $1,500). Just email your proof of purchase to [email protected]!
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Pretty wild that Daniel Radcliffe wasnât even a teenager when he met JKR and heâs so quickly become the progressive legend that she has always imagined herself to be
If you are against BLM, you are unwelcome on my page.
If you support AllLivesMatter or BlueLivesMatter, you are not my friend.
If you think the riots are unjustified and irrational, unfollow me right now.
I am not black, but I support the black community all the way. I cannot possibly understand your pain or your suffering, but I'm with you. Now and forever.
Over the past few years, calls for the ballet world to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive have become a regular rallying cry. Most of the public complaints, however, have been about general, systemic problems throughout the field. But this week, as our entire country is reckoning with the ...
Dance Magazine Article by Jennifer Stahl on June 4, 2020
Title:Â These Ballet Dancers Are Calling Out Inequity at Their Companies
Over the past few years, calls for the ballet world to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive have become a regular rallying cry. Most of the public complaints, however, have been about general, systemic problems throughout the field.
But this week, as our entire country is reckoning with the devastating effects of racial injustice on the Black community, a handful of dancers have taken to Instagram to directly call out the problems theyâve seen in their own companies:
Nicholas Rose Asks National Ballet of Canada to âDo Betterâ
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A post shared by Nicholas Isaiah King Rose (@nicholasrose_) on Jun 1, 2020 at 10:37am PDT
National Ballet of Canada corps member Nicholas Rose points out that right now, he and other Black dancers are going through terrible pain. But, when he recorded this video on Monday, none of the company leaders had reached out to offer support. Only six of the companyâs dancers asked if he was okay. He says, âA hashtag wonât do it. Thatâs lip service.â
The lack of support he feels isnât new: He calls out ballet masters for confusing him with fellow Black dancer Siphesihle November. He calls out the fact that someone photoshopped his lips on his headshot.
Rose acknowledges that NBoC is definitely not the only company where things like this happen, and encourages his peers to speak up. âI am so sick of silencing myself to make you feel comfortable. I am the one who is feeling uncomfortable here.â
George Sanders Asks Ballet Memphis to Live Up to Its Mission Statement
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A post shared by George Sanders (@gwins_) on May 31, 2020 at 11:41am PDT
In this video, George Sanders, who recently left Ballet Memphis, takes issue with the way the company prides itself in being a diverse company, yet, by the time he posted this, leaders had not done anything to address todayâs violence against Black people. âWhereâs your voice?â he asks.
His overall message is that he feels used. He points out that although the company hires Black dancers and choreographers, and uses Black music and culture, the staff remains all white. When a Black choreographer made a piece about social injustice and inequity, Sanders says she was asked to change it to something that shed more light and hope.
âIâm challenging them to say something,â says Sanders. âYour silence is heard.â
Jonathan Batista Asks Oklahoma City Ballet to Consider Its Promo Materials
Rose and Sandersâ posts inspired Oklahoma City Ballet principal Jonathan Batista to speak up in his Instagram Story, writing that his company has never used a photo of him in a classical principal role in their marketing materials.
The following slide in his story included a note of hope: The leaders of the company had agreed to have a conversation with him about it.
Batista wrote: âBe the voice you want to hear. Be the change you want to see.â
Samuel Akins Asks the Australian Dance Community to Rethink Who Can Be a Classical Dancer
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Former Los Angeles Ballet and Alabama Ballet dancer Samuel Akins paid for his own visa to move to Australia a year ago, but has found the almost entirely white dance community there unwilling to hire him. Although he doesnât mention names, in this video he relates how a director of an arts foundation in Australia told him, âBallet was created for a certain type of person. It was envisioned to be danced by a certain type of person.â
As heâs watched the recent events in the United States unfold, he says, âI have cried every single day this week. I donât have a tear left in my body. But Iâm not giving up.â
this is one of the reasons itâs so hard to translate on the fly đ monoglots just donât understand and think youâre bad at the source language đ
I had no idea so many people didnât know this. Yeah thatâs why you need to hear the whole sentence before you can coherently translate something, for most languages doing word for word oral translations create an incoherent mess.
I know its a tough time for anyone who wants to donate and help but doesnt have the means or money. So please, if you cant donate, watch this, and share. ( I couldnt find the original blog i saw it from, but I'll reblog once i get it) Hope you all stay safe, lets make a better world for everyone.
a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity
brooklyn bail fund
minnesota freedom fund
atlanta action network
columbus freedom fund
louisville community bail fund
chicago bond
black visions collective
richmond community bail fund
the bail project inc
nw com bail fund
philadelphia bail fund
the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme
george floydâs family gofundme
blacklivesmatter.com
reclaim the block
aclu
turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether youâre listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.
youtube will donate to blm for you.
please, please reblog. for people who donât have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.
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