Episode 5: Behind the Protest

Homework

Don't worry! The word "homework" can create some stress, but no one is going to grade you. There is so much jam-packed into every TNQ episode that we want to give you as many resources as we can.

Episode 5 features Charlene Carruthers, a Black, queer, feminist activist and organizer. Charlene challenged us to go beyond the soundbites and popular media images of organizers, to truly understand the ways they put their bodies on the line for entire communities.

CHALLENGE

In honor of Charlene's work and the time she spent with us, we'd like to hop right to what you can do to dig deeper. Our challenge to you, is to contact an organizer/activist in your community. Ask them how you might be helpful to the movement. Do they need meals? Do they need babysitters? Perhaps they could use some office supplies or gift cards. Maybe it would be a blessing just to have someone cover the internet payment for a month! Do they need words of encouragement or a community acknowledgement of the risks of their work? 

Lets treat our organizers like the rockstars they are for putting their bodies on the line to bring attention to injustice,