A Newsletter of Humorous Writing #141
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
For May 28-June 3, 2020
Hello and welcome to A Newsletter of Humorous Writing. This week we'd like to encourage all of you to support anti-racism, resist police brutality, and work to reform policing and fight for racial justice in your communities. We've got a few links below for ways you can help.
- If you have money to donate, ActBlue has a great site here where you can donate to a bunch of bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers at the same time.
- You should also use your dollars to support black-owned businesses in your community. Since we're all book nerds here, this list of black-owned bookstores in the US is a great place to start. This list of restaurants in NYC is great too.
- This is a neat Twitter thread organized by writer Grace Li that's compiling resources for Black writers/creatives. Share it around, and if you have a skill you can offer, add yourself to the thread!
- The progressive Brooklyn Democratic organization New Kings Democrats has been organizing phone and email drives to advocate for police reform in NYC and are a great group to get involved with.
- This database of resources and links is nicely organized and easy to navigate and has a ton of actionable information.
If you have any other links or resources you think deserve attention, please send them our way!
And now, because we could use some laughs, the humor pieces. This week we're gonna let them speak for themselves.
What We Enjoyed This Week
The Only Acceptable Form of Black Protest Is to Stand in This Field In Rural Nebraska and Scream Into the Void by Carlos Greaves (McSweeney's)
Why I’m Choosing to Ask a Black Stranger How to Be a Better Ally, Even Though Google is Free by Taylor Garron (Reductress)
If War Correspondents Reported On the American Protests In the Same Way They Reported On Protests In Other Countries by Abhik Pramanik (McSweeney's)
An Old Favorite
How to Stand Up Against White Privilege Without Losing Yours by Jasmine Pierce (Reductress)
Updates From Your Hosts and Friends of the Show
We just want to reiterate that we hope all of you will take action, have difficult conversations, speak out, and do the work to combat white supremacy and fight for racial justice.
See you next week!
@brianagler, @lukevburns, & @jamesfolta
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See you next week!
@lukevburns & @jamesfolta
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