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Thank you to everyone who has continued to share resources with me that I can add to the Doc. The solidarity has been overwhelming. I really appreciate every person who has sent me a link or a PDF to anti-racism materials XXX

Here is the Google Doc I was inspired by, created by Alyssa Klein: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcplAqkU*HUQGSdIvRof-7XKe-S9wSg

Nandini (@/_nmtr on Twitter), an alumna of Cambridge BME, has created a checklist of actions you can do to support BLM in the UK, including letters you can send and petitions you can sign: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x65xLdIUDWMUl4_nkuD-EeP98UuJ2nuknUDsqUm7R9s/htmlview

This open letter from Aurelia Magazine signposts donation points and resources: https://www.aureliamagazine.com/2020/06/black-lives-matter.html?spref=tw

How to stay safe while protesting:

• See this post by @lowlamichelle on advice on arrest: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA99HHfJul7/
• Amnesty International’s Safety During Protest: https://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/SafeyDuringProtest_F.pdf
• Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County Guide: http://blacklivesseattle.org/protest-safety-guide/
• American Civil Liberties Union Know Your Protesters’ Rights: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/
• National Lawyers Guild Know Your Rights: https://www.nlg.org/know-your-rights/
• Stop the Arms Fair Know Your Rights: https://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/know-your-rights/
• Green & Black Cross Action: Know Your Rights: https://greenandblackcross.org/action/know-your-rights/
• National Union of Students and Defend the Right to Protest’s guide to Your Right To Protest: https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/your-right-to-protest
• Black Protest Legal Support: https://blackprotestlaw.org/
• Greenpeace USA Toolkit: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/toolkits/protest-safety-tips-from-greenpeace/

Resources you can use if you cannot protest on the streets:

• 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond The Streets by Ejeris Dixon: https://twitter.com/ejeris/status/1266128777643470855
• See this post by @galdemzine: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8Ob2dpxb4/
• See this article from gal-dem: https://gal-dem.com/what-to-do-if-you-cant-protest-on-the-streets-for-black-lives-matter/
• See this article from Cosmopolitan: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a32742162/how-to-protest-from-home/
• See this article from Insider: https://www.insider.com/how-to-support-blm-protests-from-home-2020-6#provide-supplies-to-keep-protesters-protected-and-safe-1

Organisations (you can donate to most of these organisations)

• Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com/
• Black Visions Collective: https://twitter.com/BlackVisionsMN

• Reclaim the Block: https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/
• southasians4blacklives: https://www.instagram.com/southasians4blacklives/
• Black Muslim Forum: https://blackmuslimforum.org/
• National Bail Out: http://nationalbailout.org/
• Communities United Against Police Brutality: https://www.cuapb.org/
• Community Justice Exchange: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory
• QueerCare: https://queercare.network
• The Monitoring Group: http://www.tmg-uk.org/
• BLAM: https://blamcharity.com/
• The Black Curriculum: https://www.theblackcurriculum.com/
• 4Front: https://www.4frontproject.org/
• Young Historians Project: https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/
• Charity So White: https://charitysowhite.org/
• Kids Of Colour: http://kidsofcolour.com/
• Advocacy Academy: http://www.theadvocacyacademy.com/
• Swim Dem Crew: https://www.swimdemcrew.co.uk/
• Black Thrive: https://www.blackthrive.org.uk/
• The Black Curriculum: https://www.theblackcurriculum.com/our-work
• Black Ticket Project: https://www.patreon.com/blackticketproject
• The Conscious Kid: https://www.patreon.com/theconsciouskid
• Black Futures Lab: https://blackfutureslab.org/
• Black Girls Hike: https://www.bghuk.com/
• Black Girls Brunch UK: https://www.cairoaibangbee.com/black-girls-brunch
• StopWatch: https://www.stop-watch.org/
• UK Black Pride: https://www.ukblackpride.org.uk/
• Black Girls Camping Trip: https://www.blackgirlscampingtrip.com/
• Southall Black Sisters: https://southallblacksisters.org.uk/
• Voyage Youth: https://voyageyouth.com/
• African Rainbow Family: https://africanrainbowfamily.org/
• Black Trans Alliance: https://www.blacktransalliance.org/
• Mentivity: https://www.instagram.com/mentivity/?hl=en

Workshops

• Abolition of Policing Workshop: http://criticalresistance.org/abolition-of-policing-workshop/
• Layla F. Saad’s Good Ancestor Academy: http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-academy
• Courses from Check Your Privilege: https://courses.checkyourprivilege.co/
• Austin Channing Brown’s ACB Academy: https://acbacademy.teachable.com/
• University of Colorado Boulder’s Anti-Racism I: https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-1

Donation points

• Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate
• Official George Floyd Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
• I Run With Maud: https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud
• Gas Mask Fund: https://twitter.com/BaconTribe/status/1266897075456917504
• Covid-19 #RentRelief For Families: https://www.gofundme.com/f/RentReliefForFamilies
• Emergency Release Fund: https://emergencyreleasefund.com/
• Exist Loudly Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/exist-loudly-fund-to-support-queer-black-yp?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
• Black LGBTQIA+ Therapy Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-lgbtqia-therapy-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip
• One Case At A Time Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-to-combat-racial-injustice?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet
• Donate to Shukri Abdi’s family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/shurki-abdis-family?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip
• Walk for BLM to raise money for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust: https://www.gofundme.com/f/walk-for-blm?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR3WsGFFvR3eEBVQuP6DWEIAzOZlGU7kxx-FzbzcHB8QIuNJRfXrYmnW8Yw
• The Daunte Wright Sr. Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dauntewright
• Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund: https://www.iwmf.org/bjtrf/

You can help financially support Daunte Wright’s soon to be 2 year-old son Daunte Jr and his girlfriend Chyna here:

• Cash App: $hubby98 (Chyna’s direct Cash App)
• Venmo: @thuy-jones (will pass to Chyna)
• PayPal: @holisticheaux (will pass to Chyna)

Here is the link to the original doc I found the following links from: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14U8azW7_AQ-2eZmrN9f5tqIEcX4LWF6vTjNuVFe_RTA/mobilebasic

• Sylvia Rivera Law Project: https://srlp.org/donate/
• Help us raise $50,000 to help Black trans people impacted by COVID-19!: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/ODQ0NjY=
• Black Trans Media: aid for queer black people in NYC

CASHAPP: $blacktransmedia

PAYPAL: blacktransmedia@gmail.com

VENMO: black-trans-media

• Brace Space Alliance: shelter and support in Chicago’s South Side- they have food banks and a COVID-19 Relief program w/ Trans Liberation Collective

https://www.bravespacealliance.org/donate

A thread of black trans and / or disabled people who you can donate to, created by @mulherns: https://mobile.twitter.com/muIherns/status/1267070536770678790

If you can’t donate money, 100% of the advertisement revenue this video makes through AdSense will be donated to the associations that offer protester bail funds, help pay for family funerals, and advocacy listed in the beginning of the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bCgLa25fDHM&t=13s

Petitions

• Justice for Breonna Taylor: https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor
• Justice for George Floyd: https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_22414602_en-US%3Av7&recruiter=919058260&recruited_by_id=b132acb0-f68d-11e8-8702-fbff1611eb42&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=187f3660920047d9bfd59e3ce42e98ac&fbclid=IwAR3vInfuPxLRvqoH7Npxn-Gw4TEPShr5QFKbBco87SpxK3wmEuM98Jkwmfc
• Battle racism by updating GCSE reading lists: https://www.change.org/p/department-of-education-battle-racism-by-updating-reading-lists-at-gcse
• Justice for Belly Mujinga: https://www.change.org/p/govia-thameslink-justice-for-belly-mujinga-justiceforbellymujinga
• Oxford and Cambridge University must publish their admissions data immediately: https://www.change.org/p/the-university-of-oxford-oxford-and-cambridge-university-must-publish-their-admissions-data-immediately?recruiter=136985530&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_petition&recruited_by_id=faa28190-130d-0130-bfb2-3c764e04873b
• Time to Defund Police & Invest in Black Communities: https://www.defendingblacklives.org/defund-police-sign-on/
• Make white privilege and systemic racism a compulsory part of the British education course: https://www.change.org/p/gavin-williamson-make-white-privilege-and-systemic-racism-a-compulsory-part-of-the-british-education-course
• Bold Street is named after a slave trader. Name Liverpool roads after Black abolitionists: https://www.change.org/p/liverpool-city-council-rename-liverpool-roads-named-after-slave-traders-like-bold-street-after-black-historical-figures-or-abolitionists
• Investigate bullying at BroadoakSports College(Hazel Wood High School)& GMP investigation in relation to justice for Shukri Abdi: https://www.change.org/p/independent-investigation-into-bullying-policy-at-broadoak-sports-college-hazel-wood-high-school-bury-lancashire-and-gmp-full-investigation?recruiter=false&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=51e91be0-a86b-11ea-997a-37ad2c7c1ebc
• Justice for Shukri Abdi: https://www.change.org/p/manchester-police-justice-for-shukri-abdi?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_16460961_en-GB%3Av5&recruited_by_id=da1d00b0-a8cc-11ea-b223-8546091fbcab&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi
• Justice for Daunte Wright: https://www.change.org/p/microsoft-justice-for-daunte-wright?recruiter=899574178&recruited_by_id=1a5cf8e0-b6fa-11e8-9afd-a55023ec391d
• BLM’s #DefundThePolice: https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/
• Hands Up Act: https://www.change.org/p/us-senate-hands-up-act
• Justice For Jacob Blake: https://www.change.org/p/human-rights-campaign-justice-for-ahmuad-aubrey-2
• Suspend UK export of tear gas, rubber bullets and riot shields to USA: https://www.change.org/p/suspend-uk-export-of-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-and-riot-shields-to-usa?signed=true

Here is the link to the original doc I found the following links from: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14U8azW7_AQ-2eZmrN9f5tqIEcX4LWF6vTjNuVFe_RTA/mobilebasic

• Justice for Tete Gulley: https://www.change.org/p/portland-police-bureau-justice-for-tete
• More protection for Black Trans Women UK: https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-more-protection-for-black-trans-women-uk
• Justice for Nina Pop: https://www.change.org/p/black-lives-matter-actvists-justice-for-nina-pop
• Justice for Tony McDade: https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-tony-mcdade?recruiter=944416636&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=ad350a00-4d44-11e9-be28-036a45157135
• Mourning & Fighting for Black Lives Matter in the LGBT Movement: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/mourning-fighting-for-black-lives-in-the-lgbt-movement

Black-owned businesses you can support

See the original post here by @hungrysheikhs: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMAC13Fdtu/

• Chicken Kitchen (Shepherd’s Bush)
• New Kingston Jamaican Cuisine (Wembley)
• Crepes and Cones (Croydon)
• Trap Kitchen (Balham)
• Rudie’s Jerk Shack (Shoreditch)
• Drums and Flats (Peckham)
• Hanson Grill (Preston Road)
• Hilltop Roti (Ealing)
• Grubb Diner (Tottenham)
• Wha Gwan (Wandsworth)
• Rhythm Kitchen (Walthamstow)
• Chuku’s Nigerian Tapas (Tottenham)
• Banaa Diri (Shepherd’s Bush)
• Nickaycia’s (Willesden)
• Rayaan Restaurant & Cafe (Tottenham)
• Dark Sugars (Shoreditch)
• Candycakes (Watford)
• Roti Kitchen (Ealing)
• Spices (Willesden)
• King’s Kitchen (Park Royal)
• Jamaican Patty Co (Covent Garden)

Grants for Black creatives

• Black Creatives Grant (ROOT-ed Zine and Creative Debuts): http://creativedebuts.co.uk/BAG/

Letters 

• You can write to your local MPs using this template created by Monica Heisey: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bYQQz_JLJ-O-ITskmOCrYSuMZDP8WVxwGXjDEtQrbr8/preview?pru=AAABcp5FXq4*3VPB3RQGBli_Y_BOLBTZkA
• This is a great letter template written by Brian O’Flynn that Irish people can send to their TD/local rep calling for anti-racism, a denouncement of Trump and the abolishment of direct provision, counteracting of 27th amendment: https://medium.com/@brianoflynn167/anti-racism-letter-to-irish-tds-ce6a0904ee38

Research

• Antiracist Research and Policy Center: https://antiracismcenter.com/

Media sources / publications

• Black Ballad: https://blackballad.co.uk/

• Unicorn Riot: https://unicornriot.ninja/

• gal-dem: https://gal-dem.com/
• HaymarketBooks: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/
• Amaliah: https://www.amaliah.com/
• Aurelia Magazine: https://www.instagram.com/aureliamagazine/ 
• Santes Dwynwen Magazine: https://www.instagram.com/santesdwynwenmag/
• ROOT-ed Zine: https://www.instagram.com/rootedzine/
• CRWNMAG: https://shop.crwnmag.com/
• HANNAH: https://www.instagram.com/hannah.magazine/

Newsletters

The Daily Good by The Good Trade: https://www.thegoodtrade.com/the-daily-good-1

The Brown Girls Do It (esp their #5 newsletter): https://browngirlsdoit.substack.com/

Twitter threads

• Thread by @thebrownhijabi: https://mobile.twitter.com/thebrownhijabi/status/1265923940045766657
• Thread by @Niaa_x: https://twitter.com/Niaa_x/status/1267776210148392961
• Thread by @HelenmacpX: https://twitter.com/HelenmacpX/status/1267791747523936257

Instagram posts about how to be a better anti-racist ally

• Post by @tjoshi234: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5eCIxgCT-/
• Post by @maryamfcpoetry: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0vNtol6Wf/
• Post by @charliejgough: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA2VQOsHT6c/
• Post by @chantayyjayy: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0DXs3gX6e/
• Post by @goodgoodgoodco: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvbZyVh1xc/
• Post by @hawwaetc: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAz-SU6hvsz/
• Post by @gendersauce: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7tGAEjTXC/
• Post by @officialmillenialblack: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAuyT_Yg5yt/
• Post by @florencegiven: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtHZeIpEW-/
• Post by @usowomen: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxqL4jBUPf/
• Post by @gabriellesmellz: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA7MyXaFstm/
• Post by @das.penman: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA53Q_WDl9O/
• Post by @das.penman: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAu_buhH5lD/
• History for white queer allies by @sashavelour: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJmKWeldAh/?igshid=1fau9o8ntfcjj
• Brands to boycott by @environmentaleadai: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBGNKBmFYm0/?igshid=1fldlbluxfcj
• How race functions under capitalism by @maryamfcpoetry: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBZniyWFwdy/
• Colourism in the Latinx community by @youremynirvana: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA43S2ql6-L/
• Tips on how to talk about racism to older members of the community by @southasians4blacklives: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWNgKnARsD/

Books and Essays

My dear friend’s MA list of Black Revolutionary Readings: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1aYPe21Rve3YPpozxZJE4C3WfWCvkvo_pyXkdzOARxho/mobilebasic

She is also compiling PDFs of essential reading: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zJtYEZQ4aaN9Hj8xYCYGOpTfO7HEIUHgDCSRanNDZGw/edit

This Twitter thread by @HalfAtlanta has a list of free PDFs available for essential reading: https://mobile.twitter.com/HalfAtlanta/status/1266758671628894208

This is a fabulous resource curated by @alijahwebb with free-to-access PDFs and links to black revolutionary readings, available via the @newreadernet link in bio on Instagram: https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fdrive%2Fu%2F0%2Ffolders%2F18y0_2wm85L113fVWYdgljq9uuIlmlbl3&e=ATP8RT1T8mADRwu1hd8YdED09g3nS8xO_8SBb6uSPnWxzJxlJPSrJM5Oxh6pxpYwAvVhmZaxzuPenGHL5V3VYwLYw0Yq39x334NmiA&s=1

You can access this Google Drive to read important BLM-related books and essays: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1aOnMrEIjniuKPOn6kEsmZD1MsFF6QHvu

I have started a Google Drive with free access to PDFs for the following resources. If you have any PDFs / links for these texts, please do let me know and I can add them to the folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UgUVeAHSjnuX04eQVZi-WAbR_ZCf8a-Y?usp=sharing

Fiction

• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Non-fiction

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehsi Coates

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price with a foreword by Alicia Garza
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou
• Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
• ‘Introduction: Secular Criticism’ by Edward Said: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11r6G6h51pwwsT-wEYpxrrOxhzZgvxapX/view?usp=sharing
• ‘Black to the Future’ by Mark Dery: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lFfL5vozDRIIyQDAWmYhtfjv1KN2cuwd/view?usp=sharing
• ‘Further Considerations of Afrofuturism’ by Kodwo Eshan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_GcnQguDmpfdNzSlOmqdexA5grOa1uZw/view?usp=sharing

Podcasts

Still Processing hosted by Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham (NYT)

The Daily hosted by Michael Barboro (NYT)

The 1619 Project hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones (NYT)

About Race hosted by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Code Switch (NPR)

Today in Focus hosted by Anushka Asthana (The Guardian)

Serial (Season Three) hosted by Emmanuel Dzotsi and Sarah Koenig

Films and documentaries

(you can type any of these films into justwatch.com to find out where they are available to stream)

13th directed by Ava DuVernay

Get Out directed by Jordan Peele

I Am Not Your Negro directed by Raoul Peck

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution directed by Stanley Nelson Jr.

American Son directed by Kenny Leon

King in the Wilderness directed by Peter Kunhardt

LA 92 directed by T.J. Martin and Daniel Lindsay

Let If Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992 directed by John Ridley

What Happened, Miss Simone? Directed by Liz Garbus

TV series / episodes

Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap ft. Samira Wiley and Corey Booker amongst many more

Time: The Kalief Browder Story directed by Jenner Furst

When They See Us directed by Ava DuVernay

Who Killed Malcom X? directed by Rachel Dretzin and Phil Bertelsen

The Innocence Files executive produced and directed by Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Roger Ross Williams, Jed Rothstein, Andy Grieve and Sarah Dowland

Music

Songs

• ‘Freedom’ by Beyoncé feat. Kendrick Lamar

Albums

• What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye

Self care resources / directories for Black people and Black communities

• Black Minds Matter: https://www.blackmindsmatteruk.com
• black girls breathing™️: https://linktr.ee/blackgirlsbreathing
• Therapy for Black Girls®️: https://linkin.bio/therapyforblackgirls
• Black Female Therapists: https://www.instagram.com/blackfemaletherapists/
• Melanin & Mental Health®️: https://www.flowcode.com/page/melaninandmentalhealth?demo=false
• Therapy In Color®️: https://smart.bio/therapyincolor_/
• The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network: https://www.baatn.org.uk/
• Black Girl In Om: https://linktr.ee/blackgirlinom
• Dive in Well: https://www.diveinwell.com/social-links/
• Heal Haus: https://linktr.ee/healhaus
• The Loveland Foundation: https://www.instagram.com/thelovelandfoundation/
• qtpocmentalhealth: https://linktr.ee/qtpocmentalhealth
• Ethel’s Club: https://msha.ke/ethelsclub/
• The Nap Ministry: https://linktr.ee/thenapministry
• Inclusive Therapists: https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network: https://www.nqttcn.com/directory
• Transparent Black Girl™️: https://www.instagram.com/transparentblackgirl/?hl=en
• Rest for Resistance: https://restforresistance.com/