Hello and welcome! This month we're participating in the #AmplifyMelanatedVoices movement and will be covering exclusively Black women for the remainder of the month. To kick it off, we're discussing a true BAB, Audre Lorde. Join us as we dive into her work, her words, her life, and her lasting legacy.

This week's recommendations: 

• A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (doc)
• Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984–1992 (doc)
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

We also shared several resources you can use to educate yourself. These are resources we've used and will be using to educate ourselves as well. We'll include them below for you to reference.

Please don't stay silent. Please don't stay immobile. Please do something now to educate yourself and be an active participant in this movement. We love you, please join us. Be a part of this community.

Donate:

• Justice For Breonna
• George Floyd Memorial Fund
• Run with Maud
• Minnesota Freedom Fund
• Reclaim The Block
• National Bail Out
• Black Lives Matter
• Bail Project
• Black Visions Collective
• Campaign Zero
• The Innocent Project

Read:

• How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
• The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• White Fragility, Robin Diangelo
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis

Watch:

• When they see us
• 13th
• American Son
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• I am not your Negro
• Queen & Slim
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• Whose streets?
• Just Mercy

Don't forget to connect with us on Instagram! @oysdpodcast #oysdpodchallenge 

Intro/Outro Music: Tripped and Fell in Love (instrumental) by Yacht.