Gen and Jette hang out... virtually. It's been a wild ride since our last hangout episode in February. The world is different - actually... Look below for links, anti-racist resources, and a great lecture on James Baldwin's Another Country.
Since we're crushing our Goodreads goals in quarantine - here is a huge list of all the books we mention:
So You Want To Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
Coming Up for Air - Sarah Leipciger
Pallbearing - Michael Melgaard
You Are Not What We Expected - Sidura Ludwig
The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming - Sienna Tristan
Two Dark Moons - Avi Silver
There There - Tommy Orange
Vengeful - V.E. Schwab
The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin
Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Empire of Wild - Cherie Dimaline
The Rural Diaries - Hilarie Burton Morgan
Red, White, and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden
The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock
Movies and Other Things - Shea Serrano
Sea Wall/A Life - Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
Atomic Habits - James Clear
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
Jette found this Columbia lecture on YouTube and it is fascinating and very relevant now. - Jake Gyllenhaal and Colm Toíbín: In Conversation The Year of James Baldwin
Look to our Instagram highlights for some other great anti-racist resources
"So you want to talk about race in tech" - Ijeoma Oluo
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