Something Good

1. Just 16 Damn Funny Tweets About Being A Writer.

2. Wisdom from Audre Lorde, “I speak out of direct and particular anger at an academic conference, and a white woman says, ‘Tell me how you feel but don’t say it too harshly or I cannot hear you.’ But is it my manner that keeps her from hearing, or the threat of a message that her life may change?”

3. 5 Truths About White Privilege for White People. John Pavlovitz posted this a year ago, but clearly some of you need to hear it again.

4. Paul Jarvis’s new book Company of One is available for pre-order. “Company of One is your official guide to building around the idea that staying small and avoiding growth can be more durable and even more enjoyable than business as usual…The real key to richer and more fulfilling work could be to not create and scale something into a massive corporation, but rather, to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one. This book explains how to do just that.”

5. Real Talk Isn’t Easy from Jena Schwartz. “The less insistent I am about being right and the more intent on moral courage and righteousness — individually and collectively — the clearer the task becomes: To keep doing the work that none of us alone can or will complete. To keep widening the circles while tending to the ones closest to us. To keep asking hard questions and not looking away, not backing away from the moments that make us most confused or agitated or fired up.” In related news, this podcast episode: Talking self care for activists with Jena Schwartz.

6. Yoga for Creating Space, a 28 minute practice video from Yoga with Adriene. In her latest newsletter, where she shared this video, she posed a really important set of questions: “What is it that you would like to do but that you are afraid of? What do you need to make space for?”

7. Write Anyway : January 2019, A workshop with Janelle Hanchett. “Learn to write without giving a shit what people think.”

8. How We Can Address Patriarchy. “Lama Rod Owens on why Buddhist community members — especially male-identified teachers, monks, staff, authorities, and lay practitioners — must confront and deal with ethical misconduct, and how to do it.”

9. Emmett Till’s Father Was Also Hanged: A New Book Tells His Story.

10. Trump Considers Terrifying New Policy to Eliminate Transgender Rights. In related news, Anti-Gay Activists Sue Houston Public Library Over Drag Queen Story Hour.

11. More bad behavior: Mrs. Gayle was called a “black bastard” by a passenger who refused to sit next to her, and Police ‘Activists’ Protest Black Woman Who Made Comments About Police Implicit Bias, and 3 White Women Harassed a Black Gardener for More than a Year. He Got Hit With Stalking Charges, and Three Florida Police Officers Are Sent to Prison for False Arrests on The New York Times, and San Diego Elementary School Principal Apologizes for Warning Parents About Black Man in Hoodie at Starbucks, and “This is voter suppression”: black seniors in Georgia ordered off of bus taking them to vote, and White Woman Who Blocked Black Neighbor From Entering Apartment Building Speaks Out, and White Woman Calls 911 On Black Anti-Violence Activists At South Carolina Gas Station, and White Woman Calls Cops On Black Man For Yelling Instructions At His Son During Soccer Game, and Morehouse Grad Who Died After Being Arrested, Tased by California Police Officers, Was Unarmed, Had Mental Health Issues, and New York Man [NON]Apologizes After Viral Video Of Him Berating Black Lyft Driver Leaves Him Unemployed, and #SayHerName: Florida Police Viciously Beat 14-Year-Old Black Girl for ‘Resisting Arrest.’