Top 10 “What’s Up, Y’all?” Videos of 2020 December 27, 2020 by TBINAA Team Leave a Comment 2020 has been a difficult, heartbreaking, and tumultuous year in so many ways. The toll COVID is taking on our communities, especially the most disenfranchised among us (disproportionately poor and working-class people of color), remains heartbreakingly gut-wrenching. Governments across the globe have violated the rights of their people repeatedly, from the ongoing police … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Honor 9/11 Without Being Islamophobic September 11, 2019 by Samaa Abdurraqib Leave a Comment The anniversary of the September 11th attacks is always a precarious time. Because this tragedy is wrapped up in nationalist sentiments, the memorializing of our national grief easily gets caught up in anti-Islamic sentiments. Grief and pain and nationalism all seem to get conflated and simplified during this time. This anniversary is often a time of heightened vigilance for … [Read more...]
Black and Brown Solidarity Post-9/11: Why I Refuse to Engage in Respectability Politics June 28, 2019 by Toni Bell 1 Comment I used to engage in respectability politics. I was taught that, if I proved I was of "good character,” I would be accepted by white society. I learned that it was my job to convince overtly and covertly racist white people that I was okay. I needed to make myself less threatening to shift their conscious and unconscious racist views and thereby make my life better. I was … [Read more...]
