It’s almost six months into the year and I’m finally in the double digits on my reading challenge *throws confetti*. It’s been a busy couple of weeks Read More
Haul | MCM Comic Con, London
Nerdy haul alert! I was at MCM Comic Con at London's Excel Centre this past weekend and like the n00b that I am I didn't take that many photos Read More
Books | Reading Wrap Up #2
It’s been a while but I’m back with another reading wrap up of what books I’ve been flicking through over the past few weeks as I slowly pace towards Read More
Books | Reading Wrap Up #1
Slightly new format for my book reviews. I kind of fell of the bandwagon towards the end of last year with book reviews, mainly because I was so busy Read More
Christmas Gift Guide For Book Lovers
I may be biased but it’s my honest opinion that bookworms are the easiest people to buy presents for. But usually us literary folk get one of two Read More
To Be Read | #3
Happy Sunday guys! A little bit of an easy read - har de har puns - for today. Despite the fact I am technically supposed to be on a book buying ban, Read More
August/September | In Books
Hi I’m Ria and I’m failing miserably at my 50 books challenge :P on the upside, I did manage finish three really interesting books of very different Read More
Beautiful Books | My Favourite Book Cover Designs
Hello my name is Ria and I’m a book magpie. What is that I hear you say? Well, as I wander the shelves of bookshops, unless I’m after a particular Read More
![](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=QqdzZhJl8NUAX98_WJp&oh=eb865c97ba48dd8bed22277701963394&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.")
