Simply Put

Content warning: all the things.

This month is full of things that are exhausting. April is sexual assault awareness month, we just had another unnecessary death due to police brutality, white fear, and general incompetence and ya girl is TIRED. Let’s spend some time talking about it.

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Today we’re covering a brief history of the harm the medical community has done to POC and taking a look into why there has been hesitancy within the POC communities in regards to medical advances and why attributing that hesitancy to the anti-vaccine movement is problematic and short-sighted. **Special thanks to MT, the Simply Answered-tier Patreon subscriber who asked that I cover this topic.

Today we’re talking about our work with Cedar Crest, our activism, our passion, and our frustrations. Special guest: Leni Johnson-Nadeau

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wasn’t able to finalize a simply more post today so it’s being replaced with this unedited car recording featuring my daughter. I talk about Dr. Seuss, toxic family members, and give a bit of insight into how overt racism becomes casual microaggressions as time goes on.

Welcome to March where we’re tackling microaggressions and casual racism. Today we’re talking about “sis” and “girl” after we clean up a bit of ruffled feathers from last week’s episode.

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I give real world examples of how the expectation of Black people to educate white people regarding Black history is taught and how important it is for white educators to cover the topics responsibly and without relying on non-consenting Black people to push the conversation forward

Today’s episode is unedited and a bit all over the place. This has been a rollercoaster of a last 2 weeks and I’m not quite ready to be back. This week i had planned on picking up by talking about COVID and racism as I planned for last week but given the ties both of those have to my family, this was just not the time.

Today we clean up a loose end from last week and talk about the importance of community involvement in meeting needs to reduce crime and add equity to the neighborhood.

Today we’re diving a bit deeper into the diversity panel, some things that were said, a bit about my fellow panelists, and the interesting ways we all managed to be involved in the same things yet never work with each other.