36. Dear Martin - Nic Stone

Forever Young Adult Podcast

This is our last podcast before our August hiatus! Our next episode will be in September.

In this fun filled summer episode we have warnings for ALL THE RACISM as we discuss Nic Stone's 2017 novel about being a black boy in America.

Yeah no this one isn't very funny! Turns out it's not like, fun being a 17 year old black boy in the USA.

Content warnings for racism, racial violence including racially motivated murder, racial profiling, racial microaggressions, PTSD, grief.

A very abridged list of readings on uhhh, race and racism:

First off here’s some of Martin Luther King’s writings. King is a public figure who gets misinterpreted all the time, so getting right to the source and reading his own words is pretty important. https://zuky.tumblr.com/post/40610865001

Here’s an article written by James Baldwin, who knew both Martin Luther King and Malcom X. It is written after the assassination of both men and gives some insight into the civil rights movement at the time. https://classic.esquire.com/article/1972/4/1/malcolm-and-martin

A 2015 article about the experiences of mixed race Irish people about institutional racism they have faced. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/mixed-race-irish-we-were-the-dust-to-be-swept-away-1.2287196

Behind the Police: a podcast about the history of policing in the USA, which highlights the connection b/t policing and white supremcacy. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-behind-the-police-63877803/episode/the-history-of-american-police-and-65330687/

Hood Politics: a podcast about politics in the USA where “rapper and author Propaganda and his friends as they use their hood-knowledge to break down the political scene.” https://podbay.fm/podcast/1493858530

Since Aífe is super into farming, here’s a brief reading list about Black agriculture in the USA https://forsythfarmersmarket.com/blog/2csanrggmflcgwzd66n2nmpzacm3jz

And finally, since we are white queers, here’s a great poem by poet Andrea Gibson called A Letter to White Queers, A Letter to Myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpBUenMIe8U

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