We’ve just been over here trying to condense Storytime for the Apocalypse #8 into words..

Hello Friend,
 
Storytime Episode Eight - the Amplifying Black Voices special episode- was remarkable, with readings from Jaria Martin, Deonna Anderson, Lauren Kai, and Mallewi. Massive thanks to each of them for sharing their time, wisdom, voices, and hearts so generously.
 
As promised, here are some follow-ups:
 
Resources compiled by Meredith 

• Anti-Racist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi and the Chicago Public Library:
• Anti-Racism Resources adapted from the Anti-Racist Google Doc compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
• And some important reads:
  • ‘The New Jim Crow’ by Michelle Alexander
  • ‘The Warmth of Other Suns’ by Isabel Wilkerson
  • ‘A Black Women’s History of the United States’ by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N Gross
  • ‘The Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America’ by Candacy Taylor
  • ‘The Underground Railroad’ by Colson Whitehead
  • ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’ by James Baldwin
  • ‘Parable of the Talents’ by Octavia Butler
  • ‘Parable of the Sower’ by Octavia Butler
  • ‘Blood Child’ by Octavia Butler
  • ‘A People's History of the United States’ by Howard Zinn
  • ‘The Bluest Eye’  and ‘Beloved’ and ‘Song of Solomon’ by Toni Morrison
  • 'The Vanishing Half’ by Brit Bennett
  • ‘Lakewood’ by Megan Giddings

 
Resources shared and discussed during Storytime

• Everything by Robin D. G. Kelley
• The poetry of Fred Moten
• ‘All About Love’ and ‘Salvation: Black People and Love’ by bell hooks
• ‘Healing Resistance’ by Kazu Haga
• ‘Between the World and Me’ read aloud by the author, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• ‘A world more concrete: real estate and the remaking of Jim Crow South Florida’ by N.D.B. Connolly
• All of Claudia Rankine's books, particularly ‘Citizen: an American lyric’
• Leah Penniman's book ‘Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s practical guide to liberation on the land’ and the Young Farmers podcast where she is interviewed
• ‘So You Want to Talk About Race’ by Ijeoma Oluo 
• The Southern Poverty Law Center’s website tolerance.org is a great resource for everyone who wants to educate themselves or to use with kids
• NPR’s Code Switch episode ‘Why Now, White People?’ and also on Code Switch ‘A Decade of Watching Black People Die’
• For those white people, especially, who want to grow in calling out/calling in injustice with other white people, AWARE-LA is hosting workshops on ‘engaging in difficult conversations’ twice a week through July
• ‘Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon? A Hidden History’ a conversation facilitated by Walidah Imarisha  
• The Instagram account of  author and poet Sonya Renee Taylor
• In This Together Los Angeles for staying in touch with weekly Wednesday 3pm rallies outside Jackie Lacy’s office in Downtown Los Angeles where a few thousand people gather and families of people killed by police tell their stories
• A history and culture YouTube playlist compiled by Lauren Kai
• Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary on Post Traumatic Slave Disorder

 
Future readers, readings, audiences
We know that you know amazing people, whose voices or published writing just might belong in a Storytime line-up, so if you feel like connecting Tilly with any of them....please do! Send them to the application form to be considered as a future reader. And send your loved ones here to join the Storytime family. Storytime is freshly on Instagram and here is the Facebook link to the July event.
 
Staying in touch with readers
Jaria Martin is on Instagram and Twitter. Deonna Anderson is on Instagram, Twitter, and on the web . Lauren Kai is on Instagram here and here. Mallewi is on Instagram, Twitter, and on the web. Meredith Lancaster is on Instagram.
 
Storytime on the Web
Storytime for the Apocalypse has a new online home.
 
Next time
Storytime for the Apocalypse returns Monday July 27 at 7:30 pm Los Angeles Time. Hope to see you and yours there!
 
Much love,
Meredith and Tilly xo