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A few resources to help, learn, and promote:

TO HELP AND DONATE:

Black Lives Matter carrd with info, petitions, donation sites they recommend, and readings they suggest

President Obama’s List of orgs to help, things to read, and ways to get engaged

Black-led LGBTQ+ Organizations posted by Alexis Michelle

TO LEARN AND UNLEARN:

5 Ways to Take Action for all non-black people by The Conscious Kid

10-Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist by Good Good Good Co

Victoria Alexander’s recommendations on Anti-Racist Literature

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE:

Abelle Hayford’s #drawingwhileblack Directory of Black Creatives to hire

Author Oge Mora’s List of Children’s Books by Black Authors - also check out Oge Mora’s beautiful books!

A Twitter Thread from Melissa See on Black YA novels

Karina Yan Glasser’s 100 Must-Read Children’s Books by African-American Authors

10 Black-Owned Online Bookstores to buy all these lovely books from!

Bookshop.org’s List of Independent Black-Owned Bookstores

Sorry to get personal in hard times like these, my life bits are minuscule compared to the change everyone is working so hard towards, but I really want to say some things in a somewhat private setting(not a lot of real life encounters view my tumblr). My great aunt recently went into assisted care, my mother can not care for her full time and there have been too many incidents lately. She is very understanding and in a good facility with friends and family that are residents as well. Once she is out of her mandatory quarantine she will be able to visit and go about as she pleases. As hard of a decision it was for all

of us, everyone, including her, thought it was for the best. We can still visit via window until the facility can open publicly to visitors again. Anyway, my mom is in charge of her assets, but must she sell the house due to no one else being added to the deed prior to her admission. My Aunt is the sweetest, but has always been too stubborn to assign anyone power of attorney or make out a will until now. So in comes our part, we might buy her house.. such a crazy, big, adult thing to do. And we can always sell right? It would be great for our family as it would be more space. Desmond could have his own room and we could have a garage to store the dune buggy Gregg is rebuilding. Also a fenced in back yard. I don't want to get my hopes too high, I'll admit I don't have any credit. My brother has a reality license and my mom is hoping he can do the paperwork and we need to find somewhere to finance us. I would like to keep her home in our family and I think she would have more comfort knowing it's in the hands of a loved one. Gonna do some magic about it and some magic for all the injustice in the world. If you are still reading, thanks. Ya girl gets lonely and it'd be cool if someone listened to everything I have to say once in a while. Also, Black Lives Matter so damn much and I'm sorry for taking up time talking about myself. I'll be sharing relevant content as much as I can from now on.