> as though climbing a great staircase made of air with joy
You're tuning into Cheers, a newsletter made by Tiffany Xie. This week: RBG, artivism, owning your image, Be Holding.
Hello friend,
> Have you registered to vote?
> Mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
> From RBG’s My Own Words (h/t Anna):
Use the education you have received to help repair tears in your communities. Take part in efforts to move those communities, your nation, and our world closer to the conditions needed to ensure the health and well-being of your generation and generations following your own.
> Anna helps run a lovely organization called ARTivism, a community of artists dedicated to social advocacy. ARTivism organizes virtual performances to raise money for organizations dedicated to social justice. I had the honor of reading some poems at their last event. Though I still feel hesitant to call myself an artist, I felt so lucky to be in community with people who make things.
> Emily Ratajkowski on when a model owns her own image.
> Black scientists on racism in the field, which, since I’m working as a chemistry TA right now, I worry that I exacerbate. How can I grade exams, how can I teach, to support BIPOC students, to undo at least some of the systemic racism embedded in educational institutions?
> Yesterday morning I went shopping with my mom and one of my sisters and it gave me hard flashbacks to errand running on the weekends while growing up. Something about the cold and the sun made me sentimental.
> A moment from Ross Gay’s Be Holding:
as he kept running into the sky
as though climbing a great staircase
made of air with joy,
which was not though should have been the name
of the dance move my friend Timmy
perfected the summer of 1989,
as though climbing a great staircase
made of air with joy
> Play brought to you by Hiram Maristany.
Cheers,
Tiffany