#266 Layla F Saad: Doing The Anti-Racism Work

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today's guest is Layla F. Saad, #1 bestselling author of Me And White Supremacy and globally respected writer, speaker and host of the Good Ancestor Podcast. She speaks on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change. As an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in Middle East, Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Me And White Supremacy is Layla's first book. Initially it was self-published online for free following an Instagram challenge and hashtag under the same name, and was downloaded by close to ninety thousand people around the world in the space of six months. It is now a New York Times Bestselling book. Layla's work has been brought into homes, educational institutions and workplaces around the world that are seeking to create personal and collective change.

It is worth mentioning this conversation was recorded on 4th May, before the news of George Floyd. The advertising revenue for this week's episode will be donated to the Black Lives Matter Fund.

To read:

Do the work: an anti-racism reading list: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/jun/03/do-the-work-an-anti-racist-reading-list-layla-f-saad
"I need to talk to spiritual white women about white supremacy" by Layla Saad: http://laylafsaad.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-1
The Millions of Amy Coopers https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/why-amy-cooper-called-the-cops.html
Reni Eddo-Lodge's tweets: https://twitter.com/renireni/status/1266674554283401216
Fighting the racism that killed George Floyd requires more than hashtags https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/02/white-people-racism-george-floyd?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
We Need To Rethink Our “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen” Approach To Activism https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/performative-grief-online

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0:56.7	Hello everyone, welcome back to Control-Lock Delete Podcast. Before I introduce today's
1:08.0	guest, I just wanted to share some resources related to what's been going on in the news recently and related to
1:14.6	this episode topic. It's been a heavy week on the internet, black communities
1:19.2	are hurting beyond words and Twitter like real world, is a constant stream of pain and anguish and
1:26.2	anger. The video of George Floyd, the millions of Amy Cooper's and black parents having to explain these horrific realities to their young children.
1:36.3	None of this is new and anti-racism activists and many people all around the world have been speaking on this for years, decades even longer.
1:47.3	It's been happening for so so long and something has to change. If you're wanting to do something and donate,
1:55.0	I've put some links in the show notes.
1:57.0	There is the official George Floyd Memorial page,
2:00.0	there's the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which I've donated to as per Renee Edo Lodges tweets.
2:08.0	She has recently tweeted that if you are buying her book, why I'm no longer talking to white people about race, she's asking
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