Hey, welcome to you had me at Black. I'm Martina Abraham's Olinga.

In light of the uprisings in cities across the country and our collective desire for community and action, we've decided to pivot the next

topic of our at the house series. Many of us are unsure of how to turn our pain and our rage into protest.

But every day we survive racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia,

Islamophobia, transphobia, it really never ends.

So this week we're going to remind ourselves who we are and how it's done.

Share a story about an act of resistance, a time where you stood up or fought back against injustice or mistreatment, big or small.

What happened? What did you do? What happened next?

Submit your story at you had me at black dot com slash at the house

submissions are due by Wednesday June 3rd

and while I have you I just want to remind you that your feelings, whatever they are right now, are valid and justified.

You do not need to explain them away. You do not need to defend them with stats or logic or examples.

Take that energy and pour it into our community.

Here are a few ways that you can do so.

First, find a grassroots or mutual aid organization in your local area.

They're organizing and they're making sure that the community's needs are met every day. And they can use our support, whether it's financially or with

our time. If you feel called to protest, that is great.

But you do not need to be in the streets to be a part of the movement and do movement work.

Making calls, providing child care, feeding protesters,

fundraising, doing research, securing meeting locations, the list of things to be

done is really never ending and it takes many hands to make these networks

run. Second, being black does not absolve us from the need to study, to do the work to recognize,

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