Ayana Lage - Racism, Allyship + Social Media's Awakening

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🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I talk to blogger and journalist Ayana Lage about social justice, racism, social media and mental health. We talk about virtue signaling and performative allyship vs. true allyship; 3 things we can all do to be a better ally; why so many people seem to be waking up to racism now; the conflicting feelings of experiencing social media’s sudden shift to support the Black community; microaggressions; Ayana’s experience with clinical depression and the mental health system in this country; how to take care of mental health in this heightened time, and so much more.

My earnings from the sponsorship of this episode have gone to the Black Mamas Matter Alliance in honor of Ayana. Black Mamas Matter Alliance is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance. They center Black mamas to advocate, drive, research, build power and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights and justice. For more information and to donate, visit blackmamasmatter.org

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:04.2	Hey, welcome to the Blondt Files podcast.
0:06.8	I'm your host, Aria Laurie, and I'm here to talk all things wellness.
0:11.0	From how to achieve optimal health and wellbeing to the best beauty tips and everything in between,
0:16.5	no topic is off limits.
0:18.4	I know there is so much information out there, so I'm here to help you navigate it all and live your best life.
0:24.5	Thanks for listening. Let's get into it.
0:30.9	Hi everybody, welcome to the show.
0:33.2	I'm so happy you're here.
0:34.8	Thank you for understanding why I didn't release an episode last week.
0:40.4	I really just felt like it was insensitive and inappropriate to release an episode
0:46.9	about millennial dating with everything going on in our world right now.
0:51.4	So you will still hear that episode in a few weeks, but today we have some important things to talk about.
0:59.4	So I know that this community is a diverse one, and I have not done a good job of representing
1:05.7	that both on this show and across my other platforms.
1:10.1	So I hope that this isn't taken as justification or defensiveness.
1:15.2	It's just kind of how my thinking has evolved after some reflection and some listening and
1:20.4	learning over the last week.
1:21.6	So I always thought that because I contribute to organizations that fight racism or
1:28.0	politicians that are fighting racism, that I was fighting racism.
1:33.6	And I thought that because I've read books and listened to podcasts and watched movies,
1:40.6	I understood racism and I was wrong.
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