ICYMI: Our April Reading Selection
Plus, register for our monthly zoom discussion on April 30!
In case you missed it - this month, we’re reading The Day God Saw Me as Black by D. Danyelle Thomas. As connease described it in her recent post,
“The Day God Saw Me as Black, is a genre-defying, cultural critique of white supremacy in the Black Pentecostal religious experience through the lenses of race, gender, sexual expression, and class analyses. A narrative that weaves between critique and meditation, decolonization and reconciliation, the theoretical and the deeply personal, The Day God Saw Me as Black is an imagining of what could be if we stopped denying ourselves — and each other — full liberation.”
This month, we hope you’ll join us for our monthly book discussion, where we’ll meet together over zoom to discuss what we learned, how it made us feel, and how we can apply lessons from this book to our daily practice of abolition. We’ll meet on April 30 from 6:00 - 7:00 PM Eastern. Register to join us below and you’ll receive the zoom link. We really hope to see you there!
Also, we’ve been working hard to put together a slate of forthcoming books over the next several months where we’ll be joined by the authors during our zoom discussions. Last month’s discussion with Andrea Ritchie was so beautiful and generative and we hope to be able to continue these types of discussions moving forward. So stay tuned for our May book announcement in the next couple weeks!
I hope to see you on April 30! Until then, I hope you enjoy reading along with us.
In solidarity,
Alan