I think it’s important for us as allies to start educating ourselves without the expectation of having to be spoon-fed this information while our black friends grieve, so here’s a thread for allyship learning that I’ve found in several FB groups and Twitter 👇
in honour of Toronto Tech Week, my builder sunday project was tinkering with this Canadian Tech directory of companies and VCs
🇨🇦https://t.co/iLoRfWn37m
I hope one day to meet the person who made the original toonami and adult swim bumps that basically lead to the popularization of lofi hiphop as we know it.
So much of modern American culture came from adult swim and toonami; it’s genuinely insane to think about.
you can choose to not be evil/exploitative in this new world and i promise you’ll be okay. you can choose not to commodify ur passion/identity + you dont have to be your job or contort yourself to optimize how others perceive you. you’ll be okay :) you get 1 shot at this life <3