Unicorn Nuggets: Chapter 3
Madison Butler 🏳️🌈🦄
Founder @ Black Speakers Collection | Blue Haired Unicorn 🦄 | Expert People Person | Permanent Black Woman | Speaker | Chief Experience Officer @GRAV| Advisor | @CorprteUnicorn
Things you can do to celebrate Black history month (and mean it):
- Learn to pronounce our names.
- Stop telling us you don't see color. That in itself is racism.
- Recognize that Queer history is Black history. 🌈 Watch Paris is Burning
- Hire Black Speakers (we've surpassed 2000+ speakers!)
- Research the actually history of our oppressors and colonialism.
- Talk to your kids about anti-racism.
- Have that hard conversation with your relative/partner/friend about why their racism will no longer be tolerated.
- Be self aware enough to know when your language is harmful. Microaggressions such as telling us we are "articulate", or saying we're "aggressive" stem from stereotypes rooted in racism.
- Support Black authors, businesses, creators, and educators.
- Believe our experiences.
- Listen to and read content from Black creators who you haven't interacted with before.
- Black history month is not a means to ease your conscience. This is not the time to boost your brand, boost your ego or your PR.
- Unpack the reason that you read our posts in an angry tone rather than the one we wrote them in.
- Celebrate all Black people not just the ones who make you comfortable.
- Be comfortable (or let yourself be uncomfortable) when black men and women take up space.
- CHECK YOUR BIASES. We are not put here to make you comfortable. Only you can unpack your uncomfies.
- Be actively anti-racist in all facets of your life- even when it means unlearning the things that have felt comfortable for your entire life.
- Be more than an ally, be an advocate.
- Do this 365 days a year, not just for the next 24 days.
Challenge: I challenge you to not only commit to dismantling oppressive systems but acknowledge you also uphold them.
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Black Authors to Add to Your Bookshelves Right Now
- What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker- Damon Young
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2yGetting names right is the minimum for showing respect. When I just read a name on a screen, I can't always pronounce it the right way on the first try, but I can ask how it should be said, practice saying it if it's difficult for me on the first try, and get it right every time I speak with that person after that. Spelling names correctly is important too. Darrel and Darryl are not the same and I should have the courtesy to make note and use the right name.
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2yI also highly recommend this organization and their weekend intensives for any white identifying folks: https://whitesconfrontingracism.org/
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2ySharing! Of course ! 🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺
Thanks for the reminder and context Madison. I will use this opportunity to re-up my scholarship contributions to HBCU’s.