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hello friends (especially UK based white academic flavoured friends) who might be feeling lots of feelings about the #blacklivesmatter 
movement and how to support it. i've been thinking quite a lot and these are some ideas that are making me feel a bit less hopeless about it all:
movement and how to support it. i've been thinking quite a lot and these are some ideas that are making me feel a bit less hopeless about it all:
[...am timing this thread during the Cardiff Black Lives Matter protest, which i can't attend as am not currently in Cardiff. sending all the love and solidarity in the meantime. 
] https://twitter.com/hannahpudner/status/1267065578390511616
] https://twitter.com/hannahpudner/status/1267065578390511616
1. supporting writers of colour, both in terms of cash dolla and also in terms of citing and centring their work, and recommending their works to others. some (mainly re feminism & race in the UK) that i've enjoyed recently / are on my to-read pile are:
'Feminism, Interrupted' by @lolaolufemi_ https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340067/feminism-interrupted/
To Exist is to Resist, eds @Chess_Ess & @AkwugoEmejulu https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339474/to-exist-is-to-resist/
'What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia' by @NimkoAli https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/301612/what-we_re-told-not-to-talk-about--but-were-going-to-anyway-/9780241292624.html
'It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race', edited by Mariam Khan https://www.waterstones.com/book/its-not-about-the-burqa/mariam-khan/9781509886425
'Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race' by @renireni - this is recommended a lot but i'm specifically mentioning it now because it completely dismantled my naive assumption that racist police brutality isn't as much of a problem in the UK https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-9781408870587/
'White Girls' by Hilton Als https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308056/white-girls/9780141987293.html
finally, although not a writer of colour, @alisonphipps's 'Me Not You' is an essential read re white feminism & political whiteness. also if anyone has further recommendations i'd love to hear them! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526147172/
2. supporting @artsemergency, a UK-based charity helping marginalised young people access creative & academic industries. please consider signing up as a mentor (don't think i'm quite at that stage of my career yet!) or donating monthly like i am :)
3. becoming it a pay-it-forward member of @galdemzine, who are committed to telling the stories of women & nonbinary people of colour. their book reccs are also 
4. as far as i know, there isn't yet a Decolonising Cardiff chapter. there's amazing work going on inside the academy ( @Abyd56) and out of it ( @gentle_hq). https://twitter.com/PandemicPGRs/status/1263891352049405954
there was talk of a JOMEC reading group before the Bad Times. in the new academic year this is something i'd like to dedicate time & resources to engaging with and perhaps help to set up a decolonisation chapter.
5. helping with university access. the UCAS deadline for UK students is in early january 2021 - i'm hoping by this time to identify a safe & appropriate way to offer my editing skills & institutional knowledge to help BAME pupils with their apps (& rally others to do the same)
6. taking this course from Exeter Uni on British Imperialism - something that, unsurprisingly, was not part of any curriculum at any stage of my school career https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/empire?utm_source=RakutenMarketing&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=3132850:MOOC+List&utm_content=10:1&utm_term=UKNetwork&ranMID=42801&ranEAID=*GqSdLGGurk&ranSiteID=.GqSdLGGurk-gsv3YBnGuJDKVOQNRKHfXg
i'd love it if anyone would take up any of these options with me - particularly study-buddying on the British Imperialism course or discussing any of the books i mentioned. i'd also love it if anyone has reccs for further action / activism.
[disclaimer: what i've mentioned here is necessarily restricted to a UK HE context - which isn't to diminish the need to engage with wider structures of anti-racist & anti police-brutality movements, but merely to point to how i can utilise my own privilege effectively]
