Grace Anderson on Riding Bikes Down Big Hills, Dreaming Shit Up Together and Subverting Systems of Oppression
Description
Grace Anderson is a dreamer, a builder, and a Black queer feminist who writes and imagines futures where choice is a human right. In this conversation we discuss why she loves to giggle and fly downhills on her bike, solo adventures in the outdoors, the importance of journaling, and learning that it's important to build what you're for and not what you're against. Faith and Grace also talk a lot about their identity as Black women, their journeys to develop and exude a strong pride specifically in that identity, and why it feels so important to them to continue to center Black women in so much of the work. This episode includes a pretty incredible reading list too by the end, so make sure to check out the related links.
Connect with Grace via Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/amaze_me_grace/
ALL THE LINKS:
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariama Kaba
Mapping Our Social Change roles in Times of Crisis by Deepa Iyer
MORE LINKS FROM THE DEBRIEF, COMING SOON!
Billie Holiday sings Strange Fruit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGAMjwr_j8
The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"
https://www.biography.com/musicians/billie-holiday-strange-fruit
How white Americans used lynchings to terrorize and control black people, The Guardian (trigger warning: graphic images and stories)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/26/lynchings-memorial-us-south-montgomery-alabama
Jim Crow Laws
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
Harriet Tubman, an Unsung Naturalist, Used Owl Calls as a Signal on the Underground Railroad
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/
Emmett Till
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/emmett-till-1
Historical Database of Sundown Towns
https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/
Sundown Town research specific to Oregon, where Faith lives
https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonmulticulturalarchives/2019/06/05/sundown-towns-2019/
The Jim Crow Roots of Loitering Laws
https://the-ard.com/2022/05/31/the-jim-crow-roots-of-loitering-laws/
A Visual History of Loitering Laws
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/what-is-loitering-really
AMERICA RECKONS WITH RACIAL INJUSTICE
Law Professor On Misdemeanor Offenses And Racism In The Criminal System
Heard on All Things Considered, 2020
Sharecropping: Slavery By Another Name
https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/sharecropping/
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