ep 179: the girls are off this week

hey kiddos!

your next top best friends need a bit of a break because the world needs to remember that black lives matter, so they’re taking this week off! but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t work to do — go vote in the patreon poll to help us decide what we’re covering next. see you next week!

support black lives matter here:

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

WAYS YOU CAN HELP: Sign Petitions, Text + Call, Donate, Resources, etc.

Petition to criminalize racist 911 calls against minorities created by Danielle Wood, at P.O.P.O @protectingourselvesandothers
https://www.change.org/p/maryland-state-senate-stop-calling-the-police-black-people?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_22538421_en-US%3Av1&recruiter=1101614863&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

Sign the petition for JUSTICE FOR GEORGE
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd

DONATE HERE:
- George Floyd Memorial Fund / Official Go Fund Me to support the Floyd Family. https://gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

- Minnesota Freedom Fund: Pays for criminal bail + bonds for those who are arrested by protesting police brutality. https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/

- Campaign Zero: End Police Violence + Brutality. 
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

- Bail Funds for Protesting (ALL), Find your State and dontate:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1meDvOwawIqlIM6OWCcNM1DW3oPjvHd3RRUqnLy31TuM/mobilebasic

- Support Black Planners:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-YXN1XbDH2YyWVrMFkIXcrRCRtFfrMHBJ5Z5OvJZ2Yg/mobilebasic

EDUCATE YOURSELF.

- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
-This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijemoa Oluo
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson PhD