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Guest Post | Postcards from Cornwall | Anastasia
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Guest Post | The Classics | Anjali
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If you're reading this (and TMM in general) I wanna bet you already pretty politically active and relatively socially aware of what's going on in the Read More
March | In Retrospect
Song of the month: Green Light, Lorde So much for productivity! March has come and gone, and I'm wracking my brain for what actually even happened in Read More
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‘We’: An evening with Gillian Anderson & Jennifer Nadel | Highlights
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International Women’s Day 2017 | #BeBOLDforChange
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![](https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/c0.58.1080.1080a/s150x150/102553196_179608096808939_284574406840022070_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=111&_nc_ohc=QqdzZhJl8NUAX86BjA9&oh=5acc0d12931f2c2e49e2ce1fb1ba057e&oe=5F3833E3 "So it\'s Friday. How\'re we feeling folks?
Now that many have posted their black square, the blackout hashtags have been and gone, and platitudes and promises have been made that #BlackLivesMatter, I wanted to highlight the passage on the second slide, in which #AudreLorde wrote in 1980
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\\"...Black women and our children know the fabric of our lives is stitched with violence and with hatred, that there is no rest.\\"
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I highlight this passage in particular because it serves as a reminder that even though George Floyd\'s killers have been arrested and charged, WE are not done yet. There is no rest in dismantling white supremacy. It\'s tiring and exhausting, but it\'s absolutely necessary work.
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I wrote a blog post in 2017 called \'Welcome to the resistance: Are you sitting uncomfortably\' as a direct response to the Women\'s March.
I wrote it as a plea to keep sitting with the uncomfortable energy that comes with active allyship, anti-racist work and challenging white supremacy, not just for the march but for the long run. That endurance faltered quickly after the Women\'s March. Many of us fell complacent - myself included.
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We cannot allow that to happen again this time. Because that tiredness, exhaustion and fatigue is something Black and minority ethnic people live with everyday.
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The call to arms remains the same as it did back then. Whatever you do, don’t resolve to stand still on issues.
Embrace being comfortable with being uncomfortable.")
