love continues and grows as seeds are planted
for this month’s newsletter, i’m dedicating this space to amplifying long-term support for Black writers and radicals who i learn a lot from and very much look up to. one of the many consistent ways to show up for Black people and their creative work is to sign up for PAID subscriptions of Patreons, newsletters, or monthly contributions to fundraisers. i am also going to include a list of accessible PDFs that have been generously compiled by Shai and Yatta for some radical reading.
Long-Term Subscriptions
Radical Love Consciousness’ Patreon (one of the first places in NY that helped radicalise me. also my dear friends and kin.)
Venus Roots’ (@venusroots) Patreon and Book Club (the current book being Assata Shakur’s Autobiography, ASSATA)
Gem (@urdoingreat)’s Patreon and Book Club (the current book being Are Prisons Obsolete? by Dr. Angela Y. Davis)
Kimberly Rose Drew’s (@museummammy) Something I Saw Daily Art Newsletter
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown’s Podcast Diving into Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Noname’s Bookclub (current books being Blood in My Eye by George L. Jackson and Race Music: From Bebop to Hip-Hop by Guthrie Ramsey)
Reading List
Radicalise Reading List by Shai and Yatta (please consider sending them some $ to show appreciation for compiling the list! Shai’s Cashapp is $schaer89 and Yatta’s Venmo is @kaliflowers and Cashapp is $kleoflowers)
I’m also including the Linktree that I’ve been updating with fundraisers you can redistribute $ to. This includes justice funds for Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, Dominique “Rem’mie” Falls that have been created by their families, as well as many different fundraisers for Black trans people that you can also show up for by regularly making recurring monthly contributions.
my dear friend and eternal lover Neema (@take.back.theinternet), co-creator of Data Healing, Radical Love Consciousness and Afropresentism, wrote: “REPARATIONS ARE INTERPERSONAL AND ONGOING” (send them some $ Venmo @findingneema). Think about that and think about it again, and reflect on how we can accomplish the ongoing act of showing love and support as a continuous and radical commitment to each other and ourselves.