Hi all – as the title implies, I’m going on a short-term hiatus.
I just wanted to let you all know that I’m not going to be posting any new content for a minute. I had a scheduled post go live this morning, but that’s it for now. I’m thinking I’ll resume posts next week, but we’ll see how the next few days play out. Frankly, I don’t feel comfortable shilling my thoughts on books and movies right now. There’s more important stuff than me going on, and I want to just shut the hell up for a minute and do what I can to learn, grow, support, and uplift.
I don’t like what is happening in my country (USA, in case there was any doubt which unbridled shitshow I might be referring to). Our inherent racism is showing out hard, and I hope that this time we are able to excise it, but our dictator-in-chief seems hell-bent on preventing that. It makes me sick as hell that apparently we as a nation would rather arrest thousands of protestors than 4 killer cops. We can’t keep letting our public servants run roughshod over us. We can’t continue to stand by as they murder people in our streets. How many Black Americans have to die before it’s enough? WE NEED POLICE REFORM, AND WE NEED IT DESPERATELY.
So for now, I leave you with this:
Black. Lives. Fucking. Matter.
Consider donating to any of these worthy causes if you aren’t sure what else to do with yourself. Or go protest. Maybe you topple a confederate monument. Demand that institutions named after racists asswipes remedy that situation. Just. Do. Something. Now is not the time to be silent.
This handy list of many orgs, including various bail funds
The George Floyd Memorial Fund
And now a few Minneapolis-specific ones, cuz I have to show up for my hometown.
TL,DR: You don’t get one.
