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Did some retail therapy the day after the election. 😅 #BookHaul

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This is such a crucial piece of writing on how we engage with the obstacles we face in society. Whether that be for BLM, me too, the environment or for a fairer society.
Garza provides a manual on how to protest, alongside her own story and struggles as a cofounder of the BLM movement.

#shesaid

Hello #SheSaid Sorry for the late post, I was off to dinner and a movie with my mother this Fathers Day. 😂

How did you feel about the end of this book, wrap up well for you? Are you ready for the next? I really appreciated all of it, so much experience learned in a fairly young life, and I‘m so glad she shared it.😉

Hello #SheSaid, posting this one a bit earlier today because I‘m headed out to visit my grandmother today and cell coverage will probably be spotty.

This read is wrapping up nicely for me, but I have to say as I watched the beginning of the Jan 6th commission broadcasts, I‘m getting excited? (I‘m sure that‘s not the right word, anticipatory maybe) to start our next read about “Culture Warlords” about the dark side of the web. How about you?

And a bit of Cascade for this #Pantone2022 challenge 😉

@Clwojick

Very good book about the real work it takes to change an idea into a movement, to actually organize messy humans to a united goal, to make any real change. I found it very informative, and I‘ll never think that real work looks like it quite so effortlessly just happened…. But more importantly for me I liked the underlying message the most…the “how we come together when we fall apart”, because that part right there, the fact that we keep ⤵️

Hello #SheSaid I hope the beginning of June is treating you well. I‘m finally past the very busy last week in May and caught up in my reading for this book again (yay me 😂, it really is the little things in life).

Lots of good stuff I found in these last few chapters, about the little things from textbooks to what is considered common in “common sense” and how all of that shapes the larger conversation about what is even considered possible.

Finished up the #SheSaid early so I could get my overdue book returned 🙈
Garza mixes her insight into politics of the past couple decades and stories of her own experiences organizing into a book about power structures and change.
This was a good read, with moments of great.
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

I went ahead and finished #SheSaid because it‘s a library book. I learned a lot of Garza‘s account of learning to organize, about what a movement is and isn‘t, dispersed leadership as opposed to leaderless, and so much more. She‘s clear and concise about where BLM has succeeded and where it failed, and has good ideas about where to go from this point. Recommended.

Hello #SheSaid! I hope you all has a nice week, despite the real life traumatic stories in our news lately. We need some more movements to organize people.

I‘m a bit behind on my reading this week, so please go ahead and start discussing without me…. Hopefully I can catch up and jump back in the discussion later tonight.

And don‘t forget that Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin is next, and to put in your library holds.

Again #SheSaid & #DeadPhilosophersSociety #ThisLife collide:
“Capitalism, a system that prioritizes profits over people, powered by the exploitation of labor and resources for the benefit of elites and corporations, follows the logic of individualism, which teaches that we must compete against one another to survive. Capitalism monetizes everything, creating a dynamic in which absolutely everything, including movements, can be bought or sold.”

Tying together my #SheSaid and #DeadPhilosophersSociety #ThisLife reading, again.

“Power is about who makes the rules , and the reality is that most of us lack real power, even over the decisions that are closest to us. Sure, I am empowered to decide what I eat for breakfast today, but larger forces create the options I can choose from — or whether or not breakfast is even available to me.”

@GingerAntics @TheBookHippie @kspenmoll

Hello #SheSaid, sorry for the late start today. Got busy with other plans and just now settling in back at home.

Ready to discuss, even if a bit late on my end 😉

Hello #SheSaid. Lots of good detail about the hard work of organizing underneath the “easy” by pure luck myths. I particularly liked the way she explained intersectionality as breaking down the us vs them mentality that has been used to subjugate many groups for so long with the old divide & conquer. How are you doing on this weeks sections?

1. Tagged; Wonderland - a year of Britain's wildlife, day by day; Jane Austen at home and Flight behaviour
2. Barbara Kingsolver's vivid novel is intoxicating. You can smell the woods, see and feel the Monarchs delicate movements as they unexpectedly arrive at a new roosting site.
3. All the above, I'm outside every day 😍#happyplace #naturenut

@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

Hello #SheSaid I hope you are having a great day despite many more reasons to get organizing lately! Right now I‘m really appreciating this unvarnished look at the real work it takes to organize people to accomplish any goal, even “just” protesting. I have a feeling we will all be protesting more in the current environment we live in.

Catching up on the #SheSaid choice read for May. Already so engaged and enamoured by Alicia Garza and her story. What an amazing woman 😍📚

Hello #SheSaid I hope you are all having a good week & maybe getting some warmth from the change of seasons no matter which hemisphere you are in 😉.

I‘m learning a lot about the complexities of community organizing in this section, I knew the idea before, but this really explains some of the divergent groups that need to find common ground, and how things sold as “common good” might not be really. Devil‘s in the details (and fine print)!

High expectations for this from the amazing co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza.
I'm thrilled to be reading along. Need to play catch-up first. #SheSaid
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Hello #SheSaid. Lots of info in this chapter, but a great background on US politics, how & why we got here and how much of this is very relevant to the world we find ourselves dealing with now.

How are you doing with this weeks chapters?

Great quote for me:

“I began to understand that difference was a source of strength and power, that being on the outside provided a different vantage point—one with potentially more range and insight.”

Happy holidays for those that celebrate with family this weekend #SheSaid

Just a short intro and beginning chapter to get us into the new read this weekend. What did you think so far? Any expectations going into it?

Survival and dignity were priorities, but to fight for them meant taking on challenges of economics, sex and gender politics, and race. These were also my first lessons in intersectional feminism: consent, success, choice, agency, pleasure, access to information, and access to contraception, up to and including abortion, were essential elements of true sexual equality. I knew that Black women in particular were often denied access to these things.

The next book schedule is ready #SheSaid!

So put in your library requests, holds, & interlibrary loans! 😉

I‘ll try to get the schedule up later today.

But if you want to join and haven‘t picked up the book or put in your library hold, now is the time. 😉

#SheSaid

A look at organizing strategies and a community organizer memoir wrapped in one, written by one of the co-founders of the #blacklivesmatter movement.

#BookSpinBingo update! I actually finished for the first time since last August.

Tagged is my latest favorite.
😊=good
🌟=really good
❤=amazing

@TheAromaofBooks

I'm totally in love with this book. It may not be totally rational to be in love with an inanimate object but if this book were a human, I'd want to marry it.

#BookSpinBingo square 6 and that's it. Totally done. Like finished, complete and not just giving up.
@TheAromaofBooks

Alicia Garza is one of the original founders of Black Lives Matter movement. She discussed her background and her work in activism. She also highlighted a lot of the last 20-30 years and how politics shaped the criminalization of black people and culture. As you can see all the annotations I marked, I thought it was very insightful. The more I learn the more I rethink everything I grew up learning. #integrateyourbookshelf

#bookspinbingo for January 2021, hopefully I can get some good reads in this month

In The Purpose of Power, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza reflects on the key lessons she‘s learned as an activist and organizer and sets forth some guidance for the essentials needed for successful social justice movements in the 21st century: decentralized leadership, formal organization, diverse representation in decision-making, and more.

This one was released today.... it looks so good!!!