Choosing Joy as I Strive for Justice
hypersensitivi-tea
Hypersensitivi-Tea is a social media community for those with allergic diseases that Mimi co-created with her family. It aims to provide helpful tips to those who are or care for individuals with allergies, eczema, asthma, and associated health conditions. Hypersensitivi-Tea also aims to decrease the racial disparities in the allergic diseases community by providing resources, a support system for, and a discussion space on the experiences of those with allergic diseases (especially those of Black folks). On our Facebook and Instagram, the family's journey of joining the invisible disabilities and allergy advocacy movements, finding hair care that is not nut-based, and more are captured. Website coming soon.
racial justice and anti-racism
Sign this petition to demand justice for Breonna Taylor.
Sign this petition to encourage Historically Black Colleges & Universities to temporarily waive SAT/ACT application requirements in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Currently, the Black Punning Poet is running the Amplify Black Voices Project, a fundraiser that aims to both uplift the voices of young Black youth and raise money for organizations doing anti-racism work and fighting for Black liberation. To find out more, you can click here.
Much of Mimi's writing focuses on racial justice themes, and when asked about the organizations that have helped to foster this spirit of story-telling for change within her, she often points to Be the Bridge Youth. Mimi, along with other Black Be the Bridge youth, will be participating in discussions on anti-racism, activism, and healing through a series called Voicing [Our] Truth: Black Student Edition.
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Additionally, Mimi and her mother are discussing race, healing, art, anti-racism, anti-Blackness, and cultivating Black joy through a Facebook Live series titled Graced with Blackness. Upcoming episodes may be posted here in the near future.
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Images from the Graced With Blackness Facebook LIVE series.
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Quotes from Series:
"[Your white friend] not being able to see your Blackness [in her mind] was an indicator of having accepted you instead of her accepting your Blackness as something beautiful and different from her but that she could appreciate... and not something she had to ignore...it really sounds more like she was saying 'I forget you're not white' which still places whiteness as the default." - Mimi
femicide and other forms of gender based violence.
You can read this paper to learn more about femicide and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV) as well as find more resources written by feminist activists about the causes of state-sanctioned violence in their respective countries in the works cited and additional reader resources page. As you read this paper and the articles written by transnational feminists advocating for the end to GBV and the cultural institutions that uphold and perpetuate it, consider your own nation's history of certain forms of violence as a tool of domination, especially in the context of settler-colonialism and chattel slavery, as well as how cultures of silence and stigma continue.