#necessary reading

[melodious-oblivion]

A very important and timely read about the matches this weekend and the dangers they posed, and a larger point about the league and its (in)ability to protect players.

“As much as the league has grown over the past few years, I understand it is still new in comparison to other sports domestically and deserves the space and grace to try new things and fail at them. No person or collective grows in comfort, and the NWSL is no exception. But I cannot accept a continued show of inhumanity from a league that lauds itself as the best in the world and upholds player safety as a part of that claim. At the top of the league, there is no humanity, and the NWSL cannot allow that to be the case if it wants to be the best version of itself. The commissioner, Jessica Berman, must stand fully accountable for the harm caused by the league this season, and a failure to do so should lead to her resignation.”

“Edward Abbey once said, “growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” This league cannot grow in a cancerous way just because growth comes with money. We must hold ourselves to a standard, one that cares for the labor and the supporters of this league. We must be good and faithful stewards of the game; of this chaos league we hold so dear. I am not asking for perfection. The owners, the GMs, the players, the fans, the staff, the officials, none of us as a collective are asking for perfection from the league or the commissioner. We are asking those who run it, who get to lead this precious and imperfect thing that we love with all our hearts, to do their job.”

[jamsandsuch]

its 3am and i just finished reading this book. i dont think i can even go to sleep now but im also not entirely sure what to do with myself.

[signourneybooks]

Books by Black Authors to Read This Summer

Books by Black Authors to Read This Summer

As we are nearing actual Summer I’ve seen a lot of lists pop up about what books people want to read this Summer (The 20 Books of Summer thing). Initially I wanted to do that too but I’ve decided to go a bit of a different route, considering what has been going on.

The horrid police brutality that was shown in America has shown once more how important it is to support Black Lives Matter. And not…

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[quitepossiblyknot]

"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." - Harriet Tubman

Our conditions have been conditioned. Programming is real...

_// the runaway encapsulates what words will not convey. Only after will it be understood. I can explain it to you, however, I can not understand it for you, understanding is the job[responsibility] of the individual.

\\_ think for yourself before it's illegal and outlawed.

... sovereignty is our birthright. Free your mind.

[semperintrepida]

Language matters and sometimes, like the word diversity, it becomes an empty container for whatever people want to fill it with. Go high. Trump hate. Be nasty. Wear a pantsuit. I don’t begrudge people finding comfort or solidarity in these words and ideas, but goddamn. We needed to do better then and we need to do better now. We need to get uncomfortable and that means moving beyond tidy words that make us feel like the world is a better, more unified and inclusive place than it is.

Roxane Gay, speaking truth in her keynote speech at the Winter Institute

[rivertalesien]

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

“Army ants will sometimes walk in circles until they die. The workers navigate by smelling the pheromone trails of workers in front of them, while laying down pheromones for others to follow. If these trails accidentally loop back on themselves, the ants are trapped. They become a thick, swirling vortex of bodies that resembles a hurricane as viewed from space. They march endlessly until they’re felled by exhaustion or dehydration. The ants can sense no picture bigger than what’s immediately ahead. They have no coordinating force to guide them to safety. They are imprisoned by a wall of their own instincts. This phenomenon is called the death spiral. I can think of no better metaphor for the United States of America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

[allie-jones]

“We were told that violence in itself is evil, and that, whatever the cause, it is unjustified morally. By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?”

Mask Off: The Monopoly on Violence and Re-Invigorating an Anti-Imperialist Vision for Black LiberationBy Devyn Springer and Joel Northam https://medium.com/@DevynSpringer/mask-off-the-monopoly-on-violence-and-re-invigorating-an-anti-imperialist-vision-for-black-ab969bcd79b

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