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14 Ways to Advocate for Social Justice Without a Social Media Following

14 Ways to Advocate for Social Justice Without a Social Media Following

Rebekah Kohlhepp

If you’re like me, your eyes are opened to more and more of the injustices in our world every day. And if you’re like me, you wish that there was something that you can do about them. I read a lot of books on social justice, but the books always warn, “Just reading isn’t actually doing anything. You’ll have to take what you’ve learned and put it into action.” It’s always scary. I have no idea how to do that.

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Why I Can No Longer Support Brenda Marie Davies

Why I Can No Longer Support Brenda Marie Davies

Rebekah Kohlhepp

The crimes of white supremacy have not gone unrecorded. They are etched into the bodies of brown and black people the world over. Our scars, past and present, physical and emotional, bear witness to the violence white men and women insisted they were not inflicting. White society marked the bodies of women of color as a receptacle for its sins so that it may claim innocence for itself, and, as the chosen symbol of the innocent perfection of whiteness, the white damsel with her tears of distress functions as both denial of and absolution for this violence.

Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars, p. 101

(Trigger warning: racism, colorism, fatphobia, ableism, child abuse, sexual abuse, and suicide.) 90-minute read.

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