Wow, Happy Pride y’all, and Happy Juneteenth!
CAUTION! Good Trouble spoilers ahead!!
In this episode, Jermaca Brown joins Erica and Pam again for their first time together since the release of the "Black Womxn Did it First" series last year. This time, we're talking about Jermaca’s unique journey of career transitions & finding spaces of passion. We also dive into a run-through of so much tea from Freeform's series "Good Trouble," and find a way for it all to intertwine. We all found some depth of friendship & some true relatedness through the character's storylines on Good Trouble.
Pride Month is a month-long observance in celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people—and the history, culture, and contributions of these people and their communities. It is not limited to people with these sexualities or gender identities. Pridealso celebrates and is celebrated by those with a range of other identities considered outside of the cishet mainstream, including people who are intersex, nonbinary, asexual, pansexual, aromantic, two-spirit, or who identify in other ways or are questioning their sexual or gender identity or expression. The observance of Pride Month (and earlier events like Gay Pride Day) traces back to a parade held in New York City in 1970 to mark the one-year anniversary of what became known as the Stonewall Uprising. This event sometimes referred to simply as Stonewall, started on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, a New York City bar frequented by gay and gender-nonconforming people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). - Dictionary.com
Juneteenth (short for "June Nineteenth") marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas—until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free."- History.com
Here is a list of things you can do to honor Juneteenth if you are white:
"10 Things We Want White People To Do To Celebrate Juneteenth"
You can also support Black Owned Businesses and/or give money to Black Creators you are learning from.
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Cover Photo by: @violette_media
Edited by: Erica Snow (@esnowbird)
Intro/Outro Music: Pick Up - Moods, Yasper
Ad Music: Ocean Voices - Jean Theil (@unjust_justin edit)
