6.12: How Can I Show Up on Social Media When I Don’t Have All of the Answers?
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Social media feels like a double-edged sword: It can be a great way to keep in touch with family and friends and learn new things, but it can also be a place where debates run heated, long and seem unproductive.
So how do you navigate knowing when and how to speak up when you see people post things that are racist, discriminatory and untruthful?
We’re answering that in this week’s episode, which is the second in our Summer School series!
Summer School is a brand-new series where I’m sharing quick tips and tidbits for you to be thinking about this summer when it comes to anti-racism. Some of the tips will be for grown-ups and some will be for kids, but all of them will leave you with more information in your anti-racism toolbelt.
In this episode, you’ll learn more about:
- Why we should default to speaking up.
- How you can determine whether saying something will be productive.
- How to overcome your fear of speaking up imperfectly.
This episode is an excerpt from one of our Patreon Q-and-A sessions. Members of our Patreon community come together once a month to learn together and ask me and my husband Carter their pressing questions about anti-racism, inclusion and what’s going on in the world. To learn more about becoming a Patreon member, visit patreon.com/firstnamebasis.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 6, Episode 12. How can I show up on social media |
| 0:07.4 | when I don't have all of the answers? Hello, First Name Basis fam, and welcome to Summer School. |
| 0:17.5 | Summer School is a series where I will share tips and tidbits that you can be thinking |
| 0:22.8 | about this summer when it comes to anti-racism. I know that summer is so busy and so fun, |
| 0:30.2 | and I want you to have everything you need to continue along your anti-racist journey this summer. |
| 0:36.5 | So some of these tips will be for you, the grown-ups, |
| 0:39.3 | and some of them will be for your kiddos, for your students, for any of the children in your life |
| 0:44.6 | that you want to talk to about race, racism, and anti-racism. So let's get our summer on and |
| 0:51.2 | learn together in summer school. |
| 1:01.7 | Thank you. get our summer on and learn together in summer school. Hello, First Mebases, fam. I am so glad you are here. Guess what? Guess what? |
| 1:09.2 | We are finally East Coasters. We are in Maryland. We are settling in to our home. |
| 1:16.8 | I should not even say that. I should not say settling in. I should say we are living in a little bit of |
| 1:22.1 | a lot of chaos right now. Unpacking is rough. There is stuff everywhere and we left so much of our furniture |
| 1:30.4 | back in Arizona. We donated it and gave it to people that we love. And so we're kind of starting |
| 1:36.3 | from scratch. Like my mattress is on the floor. I have just ordered some dining room chairs from |
| 1:41.3 | Target. It is going that way for us. But we're so excited to be here. I'm so grateful for all of your support along the way. I've heard from so many of you as we were on our 10-day, yes, you heard that right, 10-day road trip with our two little girls. It was so fun. And I am also really happy to be sleeping on my own mattress again. |
| 2:05.1 | Today we are continuing with our summer school series and I know that my friends back in AZ, |
| 2:10.2 | you already have kids in school. So you're like summer school, what in the world? But here, |
| 2:15.1 | in my new digs on the East Coast, we don't start school until after |
| 2:19.4 | Labor Day. So we've still got a few weeks of summer. And so I'm bringing you a couple more |
| 2:23.2 | summer school episodes to round out your summer vacation, your summer enjoyment. And today we're |
| 2:28.3 | talking about social media. So one of the most common questions that I've gotten over the |
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