5 Things Friday
Good Art, Shopping Tips, and STACEY. Here are Your antiracism action steps for December 10.
Whew! What a week. Thanks to everyone who read and shared our story about the rampant racism and injustice at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair. Since the story's publication in The SF Chronicle, the amazing women on the front lines of this fight have been asked to share their story far and wide—we recommend watching this KRON 4 report, and listening to the Fifth & Mission podcast that dropped today.
As usual, there is A LOT going on in this world, a whole bunch of it shitty, but we are taking this as a reminder that doing one thing—like calling out racism at a Charles Dickens themed Christmas fair, and actively supporting the people who are being harmed—can actually change real situations for real people. So keep doing the things.
Hey! Here are 5 of them!
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS. One more time for the people in the back. AKA the folks who left last week's email "unread." Read the story. Sign the petition. Spread the word.
GO SEE THIS. Artist Sadie Barnette has a new show at Jessica Silverman gallery all about family, and what's passed on from generation to generation. Her father, Rodney Barnette, not only was a member of the Black Panther Party and the founder of the group’s Compton chapter, he also opened the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco. “Sadie Barnette: Inheritance,” explores both those legacies and more.
FOLLOW THIS. Kavon Ward, who helped lead the successful fight on behalf of the Bruce family, has co-founded a new group called Where Is My Land, aimed at advocating for other Black people who are trying to reclaim lost and stolen land. “This is just the beginning.” Ward said she has already heard from more than 100 people eager to make the case that they have a rightful claim to property now occupied by others. Her group is turning its attention to a tract of land in Cleveland now partly owned by the Cleveland Clinic that activists say rightfully belongs to former businessman Winston E. Willis. As with the Bruce case in California, advocates say, Willis was deprived not just of his property but also of decades of potential prosperity — a scenario that, repeated many times over, lies at the root of the wealth gap between Whites and African Americans.
SHOP THIS. If, like us, you are suddenly in a shopping mood, click your way over to Show & Tell Concept Shop, a Black, femme, queer-owned online shop run by the multi-talented Alyah Baker. Show and Tell celebrates 10 years in business this year — read all about the journey, right here —and is celebrating with the Black Joy Collection, items all made by Black women creatives!
GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS. Stacy Abrams is running for governor of Georgia in 2022. Let's go.