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NikkiBlak Thriving at the intersection of matriarchy + liberation movement work. She holds a B.A.

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https://nikkiblak.com/instagram Nikki Blak is a writer, sociologist, and womanist, whose art interrogates social constructs and affirms Blackness. Her thought leadership and radical education work centers marginalized and oppressed populations in the United States. in Sociology and a Master of Arts in Social Justice and Community Organizing. She uses her extensive education in combination with her lived experience and ancestral knowledge to interrogate anti-Black ideologies and challenge patriarchal cultural norms. Her incendiary art provides unrelenting socio-political critique and activates liberatory praxis to dismantle systems of oppression. As a public speaker and performer, Nikki's work has been featured on radio, national television, college universities, and at historic performance venues across the country. As a celebration of her work, her likeness has been depicted in public art installations throughout Los Angeles for nearly two decades. The most recent is a Michael Massenburg mosaic commissioned for the Metro Expo. She is a founder and Executive Director of The Interrupt Series, a virtual workshop and lecture program dedicated to producing anti-racism curriculum and providing education and resources to interrupt racism and patriarchy. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Inglewood, California, Nikki resides on unceded Tongva land with her partner and children, where she works to make her ancestors proud and leave a just, equitable society for her descendants.

Sometimes I just be trying to talk to ya’ll and then black out and write a poem.
10/01/2026

Sometimes I just be trying to talk to ya’ll and then black out and write a poem.

09/23/2026

Working twice as hard still gets you half. ⁣
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Sis, this isn’t a motivation problem.⁣
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Black women working full time and year round are paid about 66 cents for every dollar paid to white men. ⁣
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Latinas are paid about 58 cents. ⁣
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Those numbers have barely budged in decades. ⁣
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Effort is not the variable.⁣
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The saying “work twice as hard to get half as far” was an admonition to help us survive, and it was honest about the terrain we were traversing.⁣
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It told you the ground was tilted. ⁣
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But it stopped one sentence short. ⁣
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It never said the ground stays tilted no matter how fast you run on it or whether or not you take any breaks. ⁣
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So several generations of us inherited the diagnosis and mistook it for the treatment.⁣
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Working twice as hard inside a system set up to underpay you produces one reliable outcome:⁣
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Exhaustion⁣
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The gap is not waiting to be closed by your output. ⁣
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It wasn’t constructed to respond to your output at all.⁣
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There’s a second program installed in the operating system for anyone raised as a girl, which is hard work as proof you deserve to take up space. ⁣
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That one is harder to see, because it doesn’t feel like a strategy. ⁣
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It feels like character.⁣
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Last week I taught how to tell the difference between work that pays you and work you were taught to do for free and how to start collecting what you’re owed for the second kind. ⁣
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Comment TWICE and I’ll send you the link to listen.⁣

Converse apologized and pulled the image. ⁣No surprise. That’s standard practice.⁣The conversation shouldn’t end there, ...
09/20/2026

Converse apologized and pulled the image. ⁣No surprise. That’s standard practice.
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The conversation shouldn’t end there, because the same training that approved it is making decisions in your business as you read this: ⁣
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👉🏾 which images feel aspirational ⁣
👉🏾 which faces feel “on brand” ⁣
👉🏾 which messages feel appropriate to post⁣
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The question isn’t whether anyone meant to cause harm. ⁣
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The question is what we’ve been socialized to find compelling, and what it takes to retrain that eye.⁣
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Resourcing a Revolution is my weekly email, and it’s where I give you the in-depth insight that makes you more skilled at catching in your own business what most people scroll past.⁣
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Comment RESOURCED and I’ll send you the link, or tap the link in my bio and drop your email to get Thursday’s issue in your inbox.⁣

09/16/2026

If you’re a parent with a career or business, the school’s got you covered for about 36 to 40 weeks of the year. ⁣
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The other 10 to 12 weeks are all you. ⁣
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Not by accident, and not as a gap in the schedule — as an assignment, handed to caregivers, with no compensation attached, little to no support, and no line item in sight.⁣
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Here is what the market says that assignment is worth:⁣
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All-day child care and enrichment in the summer time runs $200 to $500 a week per child in most of the country, and more in California and the Northeast. ⁣
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Ten weeks. One child. That is $2,000 to $5,000 of labor, and you performed it yourself while also holding whatever your business needed from you.⁣
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So when the launch stalled and the project sat there, the honest accounting is that your capacity went somewhere necessary and non-negotiable. ⁣
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It went into an around the clock job with a market rate, and you’re depleted.⁣
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The erasure is what makes it work. ⁣
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If that shift showed up on the books somewhere, it would have to be staffed, or paid, or scheduled around. ⁣
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Keeping it invisible is the only way the rest of the economy runs on schedule from June through August.⁣
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The kids went back to school. ⁣
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The hours that summer took from you are sitting right there, unclaimed, and you have until the equinox on September 22 to decide what they’re for. ⁣
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After that, Q4 and the holidays will decide for you.⁣
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If you want an honest accounting of where your time went this summer and a plan to take your hours back just in time for a Q4 redemption arc, comment RECLAIM and I’ll send it to you.⁣

You’ve never made a friendship contingent on where somebody stands politically, and you’ve been calling that grace.⁣⁣Or ...
09/14/2026

You’ve never made a friendship contingent on where somebody stands politically, and you’ve been calling that grace.⁣
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Or even worse mAtUrItY.⁣
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So you change the subject at dinner. ⁣
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You keep the group chat light. ⁣
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You let the friend who hasn’t made a peep about Palestine for 3 years keep the same seat they’ve always had, and you introduce them as one of your closest people. ⁣
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You’ve also never asked the person who refers you clients what they think about reparations, because you already know you don’t want the answer to cost you the referrals.⁣
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The answer is not to cut everybody off. ⁣
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Leaving is what white folks do when staying would require them to do the work they’re supposed to, and you’ve used that exit plenty of times already. ⁣
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The real questions are who you have authorized to represent you, who you’ve made comfortable, how much power you handed them, and what you have ever asked of them in exchange for the access they have to you.⁣
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When the people closest to you are headed the same direction you are, you quit tiptoeing around and avoiding conversations about what you claim to care so much about.⁣
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You can say the true thing to a friend and still have the friend. ⁣
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You can say it to a colleague and find out they were waiting for somebody to say it first. ⁣
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The standard isn’t that everybody agrees with you on everything. ⁣
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The standard is direction, and the destination is collective liberation, which means land back, reparations, and redistributing wealth that was never earned. ⁣
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Finding out after ten years of friendship that your person does not believe in any of it means you never asked and it was never a dealbreaker for you. ⁣
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You can build up to the standard. ⁣
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It starts with identifying where you learned that having one was rude, and where you learned it was bad for business.⁣
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Drop BREAKUP in the comments and I’ll send you the link to the Interrupting White Womanhood: Breaking Up with White Feminism 90-Day Guided Journal so you can begin that work.⁣
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You can also tap the link in my bio to get your copy.

That lil’ tantrum was a failure of solidarity dressed up as a consumer complaint, similar to how we as young 20-somethin...
09/11/2026

That lil’ tantrum was a failure of solidarity dressed up as a consumer complaint, similar to how we as young 20-something club goers were dressed in business casual when her records first hit the charts.⁣
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10 memes about not caring what anybody thinks, posted immediately after caring very much what one rapper said. ⁣
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Incredible.⁣
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Talmbout she wanted a refund. After 26 years of this nonsense, girl, so do we. ⁣
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Anyway. I built the business version of the viral HOW WHITE IS YOUR FEMINISM? Quiz that you know and love.⁣
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It’s the HOW WHITE IS YOUR FEMINIST BUSINESS MODEL? Quiz and it sniffs out the white feminism in your business and tells you what it’s costing you.⁣
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It’s ✨BRAND NEW✨⁣
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If you want to be among the very first to take it, comment REFUND and I’ll send you the link to get access.

If you have Monday off, it’s because a liberation movement got talked down. ⁣⁣Here’s the part we don’t put on the barbec...
09/06/2026

If you have Monday off, it’s because a liberation movement got talked down. ⁣
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Here’s the part we don’t put on the barbecue invitations:⁣
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In 1894, workers at the Pullman company went on strike and the boycott shut down rail traffic across the Midwest. ⁣
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President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops in over the objection of the governor of Illinois. ⁣
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More than 30 people were killed. ⁣
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6 days after those troops restored order, Congress rushed a bill through in the closing days of the session and Cleveland signed Labor Day into federal law. ⁣
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He was facing re-election in 1896 and needed labor back. ⁣
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He lost the nomination anyway.⁣
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September wasn’t chosen for the weather.⁣
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Workers already had a day – May 1 — International Workers’ Day — marking the Haymarket affair of 1886, adopted by the Second International in 1889, tied to socialists, anarchists and communists across the world. ⁣
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That made it unusable. ⁣
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September was already sitting on the calendar from the union parades, the first of which drew around 10,000 marchers in New York in 1882, and it carried none of the politics. ⁣
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So the demand kept the parade.⁣
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And the unions that accepted that arrangement had spent decades organizing to keep Black workers out.⁣
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Sound familiar?⁣
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Feminism made the same trade. Sexism first, racism later, and later never arrives.⁣
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Comment RADICAL and I’ll DM you Interrupting Business As Usual Ep. 25: Why We Must Be Radical to Be on the Right Side of History.⁣
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Movements make concessions because the people whose comfort is on the line control the money.⁣
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Every week I write about how to become more resourced to fund more radical movements. ⁣
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It’s an email series called “Resourcing a Revolution” and you can tap the link in bio to subscribe.

Stanton campaigned against the 15th Amendment arguing it was better to be the slave of an educated white man than of a d...
09/05/2026

Stanton campaigned against the 15th Amendment arguing it was better to be the slave of an educated white man than of a degraded, ignorant Black one. ⁣
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Anthony swore she’d cut off her own arm before demanding the ballot for the Negro and not the woman. Both have monuments. ⁣
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These aren’t my feminist heroes. ⁣
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If they’re yours, I invite you to sit with this over the long weekend:⁣
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Every time a white feminist icon is canonized, Black women are handed the same unpaid assignment: ⁣
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Explain what she actually argued, produce the citations, absorb the accusations of cruelty. ⁣
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The answer is always that the timing is wrong — and there is never a right time, because the order was never accidental.⁣
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Anti-Blackness is load-bearing. ⁣
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Dismantling it costs something that hasn’t been agreed to, so the work reliably stops right at that line. ⁣
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✅ Book club, done. ⁣
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✅ Training, done. ⁣
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❌ Naming anti-Blackness and capitalism as the things holding cisheteropatriarchy up, 404.⁣
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That’s why the progress never came. ⁣
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Roe is gone along with a host of other protections, and there is more to lose.⁣
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If you want to know where your own feminism actually comes from, start here👇🏾⁣
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HOW WHITE IS YOUR FEMINISM? ⁣
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13,000 people have taken the quiz to find out. ⁣
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Tap the link in my bio to take your turn, or comment 404 and I’ll send it to you.

Y’all remember the persistent urge knit earlier this year?⁣⁣I’ll never forget.⁣⁣White women raising money with fiber art...
08/31/2026

Y’all remember the persistent urge knit earlier this year?⁣
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I’ll never forget.⁣
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White women raising money with fiber arts, which is fine. ⁣
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It’s cool. ⁣
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It’s also a Band-Aid on a bullet wound, and we keep reaching for the Band-Aid.⁣
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Now everybody’s posting about generosity again. ⁣
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Same reflex. ⁣
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Somebody was good to people the system was already failing, and we’re moved by it.⁣
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Personally, I don’t want your generosity. I want you to be radical.⁣
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Because a region whose best available economic plan is hoping a rich person loves them wasn’t short on kindness. ⁣
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It was short on options. ⁣
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And options don’t come from a fundraiser. ⁣
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They come from what we build individually and share or build together, until the systems that made the fundraiser necessary have nothing left to stand on.⁣
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Be generous like that.⁣
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Naming the problem isn’t the work. ⁣
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Building the alternative is.⁣
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Resourcing a Revolution is the weekly interruption for mamas + caregivers + community keepers who are done chasing the dopamine hit that comes from “just helping” instead of tearing this s**t down and building new possibilities.⁣
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Let’s go.⁣
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Tap the link in my bio, or comment RESOURCED and I’ll send you the link to subscribe.

Ya’ll can’t tell me Dolly wasn’t one of my aunties.⁣⁣I’ve been sad about her leaving us.⁣⁣I’m also sitting with the real...
08/26/2026

Ya’ll can’t tell me Dolly wasn’t one of my aunties.⁣
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I’ve been sad about her leaving us.⁣
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I’m also sitting with the reality that we’re quicker to canonize individuals than we are to organize people.⁣
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I hate how we keep mistaking a person for a plan.⁣
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And especially as I observe folks racialized as white, I grow more and more concerned that instead of:⁣
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👉🏾 Stepping up and RISKING SOMETHING in honor of her life and ⁣
👉🏾Gathering your people and challenging them to do the same…⁣
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This collective grief will devolve into ya’ll high-fiving each other because one white person simply did what was right. ⁣
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It’s a reflex we gotta interrupt if we ever want to get free.⁣
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What could you accomplish if you stopped waiting to feel qualified and leveraged the power you currently have in the fight for a more just, equitable, safe, and sustainable world?⁣
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What could we do and have if we knew we didn’t have to be individually special and insisted on being a part of collectives to co-create a radically liberated future for ourselves and future generations?⁣
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Those questions live at an intersection most people rarely venture into: labor, material resources, caregiving, and what we actually owe each other. ⁣
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That’s what I write about in my weekly email series, Resourcing a Revolution.⁣
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Tomorrow’s email is about how to, as Mariame Kaba said, let this radicalize you. ⁣
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Not the grief itself but what it’s pointing at. ⁣
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I’m talking about how to use this moment to stop admiring and start inheriting.⁣
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Tap the link in my bio to subscribe or drop ORGANIZE in the comments and I’ll DM you the link to subscribe.

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