Unapologetic Women

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Episode Summary

We have always focused on the importance of conversation and dialogue, this week's episode is true to that belief. We often talk about how education shapes us and this week we have both been on our own journey to understanding what it means to be anti-racist.

Episode Notes

Here is what we have been reading:

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Here is what we have been listening:

• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White
• 1619 (New York Times)
• About Race

Here is what we have been watching:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

More resources and reading ideas here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcqmy2m0*LgjLwByxnCmOdUIYC5K-Jw

This incredible list was put together by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.