Midstofspring - Evolving. Poet. Lover

You will meet many disabled and mentally ill people who won’t fit into your idea of how a mentally ill or disabled person is supposed to look and act - and the solution to that is to let them expand your knowledge of what mental illness and disability can look like, not insisting that they aren’t actually disabled or mentally ill because they don’t fulfill certain stereotypes.

Bless her!….NOBODY ever says this part

The rage that I feel.

Books for Black Women of All Ages to Read

Marita Golden Don’t Play in the Sun

Coffee will make you black- April sinclair

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

Flygirl, by Sherri L. Smith

Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Middle school)

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, by Meg Cabot

The Mighty Miss Malone, by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna And Still Peace Did Not Come A Memoir of Reconciliation

Alaya Dawn Johnson The Summer Place

Alaya Dawn Johnson Love is the Drug

Alice Walker Now is the Time to Open Your Heart

Alice Walker In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Alice Walker The Color Purple

Alice Walker Meridian

Alice Walker Anything We Love Can be Saved

Alice Walker By the Light of My Father’s Smile

Angela Y Davis Blues Legacies & Black Feminism

Anne Moody Coming of age in Misssissi

Anne Schraff The One for Me

Antoinette Tuff Prepared for a Purpose

Antoinette Tuff Prepared For a Purpose

April Sinclair Coffee Will Make You Black

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel

Babygirl Daniels 16 ½ on the Block A Babygirl Drama Vol. 2

Barbara Smith Home Girls

Bebe Moore Campbell Sweet Summer Growing Up With and Without My Dad

Bebe Moore Campbell Brothers and Sisters

Bell Hooks Bone Black Memories of Girlhood

Belle Antoinette Remains

Benilde Little Who Does She Think She Is?

Brandon Montclare Halloween Eve

Brian K. Vaughn Saga Volume One

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All be Feminists

Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees

Chris Cleave Little Bee

Cleste O. Norfleet Download Drama

Coe Booth Kendra

Danielle L. McGuire At the Dark End of the Street

Dasha Kelly Almost Crimson

Dorothy Height Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir of Dorothy Height

Dorthy Spruill Redford Somerset Homecoming

Edwidge Danticat Claire of the Sea Light

Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Freddie Mae Baxter The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life

Gloria Naylor Mama Day

Grace F. Edwards No Time to Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery

Issa Rae The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Iyanla Vanzant Faith in the Valley

Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place

Janet Jackson True You

Janet Mock Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Jaquelin Thomas Divine Match-up

Jeremy Zimmerman Kensei

Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones

Jewell Parker Rhodes Towers Falling

Jewell Parker Rhodes Voodoo Dreams A Novel of Marie Laveau

Justina Ireland Promise of Shadows

Karen Gibson Roc she & i Poems

Karen Lord The Best of All Possible Worlds

Karen Tanabe The Gilded Years

Karin Tanabe Gilded Years

Kathryn Talalay Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler

Kia Dupree Silenced

Kimberla Lawson Roby Casting The First Stone

Kymberla Lawson Roby Casting the First Stone

Kyoko M. The Black Parade

Laura Resau The Queen of Water

Linda Joyce The Second Room on The Right

Lola Jaye Being Lara: A Novel

Lorene Cary The Price of a Child

Lynn Austin A Light to My Path

Marian Wright Edelman Lanterns A Memoir of Mentors

What have the protests accomplished?

5/26 4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd 5/27 Charges dropped for Kenneth Walker (Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, who police accused of killing her) 5/28 University of Minnesota cancels contract with police 5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protesters 5/28 Minneapolis transit union refuses to bring police officers to protests or transport arrested protesters 5/29 Activists commandeer Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to homeless 5/29 Former officer Chauvin arrested and charged with murder 5/29 Louisville Mayor suspends “no-knock” warrants 5/30 US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of George Floyd 5/30 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer 5/30 Transport Workers Union refuses to help NYPD transport arrests protesters 5/30 Maryland lawmakers forming work group on police reform, accountability 5/31 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of their car and tasing them - Atlanta, GA 6/1 Minneapolis public schools end contract with police 6/1 Confederate monument removed after being toppled by protesters - Birmingham, AL 6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DAs from accepting police union money 6/1 Tulsa Mayor agrees to not renew Live PD contract 6/1 Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee 6/1 Congress begins bipartisan push to cut off police access to military gear 6/1 Atlanta announces plans to create a task force and public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area 6/2 Minneapolis AFL-CIO calls for resignation of police union president Bob Kroll, a vocal white supremest 6/2 Pittsburgh transit union announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protesters 6/2 Racist ex-mayor Frank Rizzo statue removed in Philadelphia 6/2 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protesters - Atlanta, GA 6/2 Civil rights investigation of Minneapolis Police Dept launched 6/2 San Francisco resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct 6/2 Survey indicates that 64% of those polled are sympathetic to protesters, 47% disapprove of police handling of the protests, and 54% think the burning down of the Minneapolis police precinct was fully or partially justified 6/2 Trenton NJ announces policing reforms 6/2 Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police 6/2 Confederate statue removed from Alexandria, VA 6/3 Officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protesters - Denver, CO 6/3 Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art cut ties with the MPD 6/3 Chauvin charges upgraded to second degree murder, remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody 6/3 Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish “Marcus” alert for folks experiencing mental health crises, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study 6/3 County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail 6/3 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously votes to sever ties with MPD 6/3 Seattle withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department 6/3 Breonna Taylor’s case reopened 6/3 Louisville police department (Breonna Taylor’s murderers) will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability 6/3 Colorado lawmakers introduce a police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the “fleeing felon” statute, and banning chokeholds 6/3 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announces plans to reduce funding to police department by $150M and instead invest in minority communities 6/4 Virginia governor announces plans to remove Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond 6/4 Portland schools superintendent discontinues presence of armed police officers in schools 6/4 MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses wont transport police to protests, or protesters to police 6/4 King County Labor Federation issues ultimatum to police unions: admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed 6/5 City of Minneapolis bans all chokeholds by police 6/5 Racist ex-mayor Hubbard statue removed - Dearborn, MI 6/5 NFL condemns racism and admits it should have listened to players’ protests 6/5 California Governor Gavin Newsom calls for statewide use-of-force standard made along with community leaders and ban on carotid holds 6/5 2 Buffalo officers suspended within a day of pushing 75 year old protester to the ground, and lying about it 6/5 2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters 6/5 The US Marines bans display of the Confederate flag 6/5 Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in excessive use of force 6/5 Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax releases an 11-point action plan for immediate police reforms 6/6 Statue of Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham torn down - Richmond, VA 6/6 2 Buffalo officers charged with second-degree assault for shoving elderly man 6/6 San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces effort to defund police and redirect funds to Black community 6/7 Frank Rizzo mural removed, to be replaced with new artwork - Philadelphia, PA 6/7 Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband the police department, invest in proven community-led public safety 6/7 Protesters in Bristol topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston, throw it in the river 6/7 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio vows for the first time to cut funding for NYPD, redirect to social services 6/7 A Virginia police officer faces charges after using a stun gun on a black man 6/8 NY State Assembly passes the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act 6/8 Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing 6/8 Black lawmakers block a legislative session in Pennsylvania to demand action on police reform 6/8 France bans police use of chokeholds 6/8 Seattle council members join calls to defund police department 6/8 Boston reevaluates how it funds police department 6/8 Honolulu Police Commission nominees voice support for more transparency, reforms 6/8 Rights groups and Floyd’s family call for a UN inquiry into American policing and help with systemic police reform

No, it’s not enough, but this is only the beginning. Keep fighting!!!

(I adapted this list from this blog post and added sources and new entries. Please reblog with additions.)

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I just want to let y’all know that a lot of cishet men are going to end up very lonely when they’re old because of the way they treated women and their significant others.