“The construction of whiteness affords one many privileges; whether one chooses to acknowledge these privileges or not, is a different story. We (white folks especially, due to proximity to privilege), must intentionally leverage our privileges through collective activism with historically marginalized communities...”— Belle, 2024, p. 17 I am sitting in a chair wearing a red dress and I am looking directly at the camera, smiling. In Start with Radical Love: Antiracist Pedagogy for Social...

I still remember the first time I realized my labor was being taken for granted. I was 16, working at the New York Public Library in New York City. At that time, I was a Page, which is somebody who puts the books back in alphabetical order (fiction) and numerical order (nonfiction). I did this well, so well that my work was often done early, leaving me with nothing else to do. This would occasionally result in me talking to other workers on the floor (since I could not leave the floor if I...

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is not lost on me that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered when he was only 39 years old. Before entering his fourth decade of life, he was shot down on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. To think that you could lead a life driven by love and social justice and be murdered is still a wild concept for me to fully...