This week Michelle hands the keys to the show over to Diamond Stylze (Marsha’s Plate) as she chats with fellow US black trans people Josephine, Felix and Yannick Taylor (Conversations With The Priestess) as well as UK activist and campaigner Nim Ralph (co-founder QTIPOC London) about Black Lives Matter, police brutality, white supremacy and finding solace in cooking.
References
- What the hell is going on?
Look, another black person was murdered by police. So black people and their allies are protesting, demonstrating and trying to make things better for everyone. Read up on the details here:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/george-floyd-new-video-officers-kneel-trnd/index.html
The protests are now world wide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBgxupJQKns
Now, go give these a read, give the organisations listed some cash and some shares.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/black-lives-matter-charity-donate-uk-stephen-lawrence-stop-hate-a9544786.html
https://loveandragemedia.org/2020/05/31/take-action-protest-bail-funds-by-city-and-state/
https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/help-black-lives-matter-protests-donate-organisations/
Here is a cool guide on how you can help by https://twitter.com/perkin_amalaraj
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10iIz_pFB8DzPkwddc8dcmJdJ0ZMITfTs7lvs4uyusZk/ - Tony McDade
Tony McDade was a trans black man who died at the hands of police in the same week George Floyd also died. Here is all the information:
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2020/05/9846131/tony-mcdade-police-killed-tallahassee-black-transgender-man
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tony-mcdade-shooting-death-tallahassee-1008433/ - Diamond Stylz
https://twitter.com/DiamondStylz
https://www.instagram.com/diamondstylz
Check out her non-profit: https://blacktranswomen.org/
Marsha’s Plate (her podcast LISTEN TO IT)
All the links: https://linktr.ee/MarshasPlate
https://www.patreon.com/MarshasPlate
https://twitter.com/MarshasPlate - Yannick Taylor
Conversations with the Priestess
https://twitter.com/CWTPriestess
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5u3SoafOCpj-rny8I4jEjQ
https://www.instagram.com/CWTPriestess/
Music
https://yannicktaylor.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/YannickTMusic - Josephine Hoskins
https://www.quora.com/profile/Josephine-Hoskins?q=Josephine%20hoskins - Felix
https://twitter.com/itsfelixnow - Nim Ralph
https://twitter.com/NMRLPH
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimralph
