Everyone has a free fifteen minutes of their day, and here, we’re trying to give you something to fill that time with, activism. Every week we will be posting our fifteen minutes of activism for a different cause or movement. This week we are covering the Trans rights and here you can use those fifteen minutes to read more about this movement.

“Today, though, I am positive of my identity as a young black woman. I am black because every day I worry about my dad being the next black man to be shot. That one-day I’ll wake up and there will be a post saying, “Justice for Mark Terry”. I am black because taking a jog down the street at night could result in my death. I am black because I don’t have the luxury of just posting about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, emerald black, and the rest of my brothers and sisters being slaughtered and injured daily…”

“Black people drown at a rate 1.4x higher than white people. Which means that the number of Emmett Tills dragged from a river is unequivocally proportional to the number of city planners who kept municipal pools out of Black neighborhoods, is unconditionally derived from the number of slaves who tried to sprint like Ahmaud over the sides of wooden ships when we didn’t even have the right to drown.”

“Born to a White Mother and Hispanic Father, I had entered the world as a mixed child. Since then I have often found myself caught between worlds, and lost in translation. Questioning who I am and how my gender identity and cultures collide…”

Everyone has a free fifteen minutes of their day, and here, we’re trying to give you something to fill that time with, activism. Every week we will be posting our fifteen minutes of activism for a different cause or movement. This week we are covering the Black Lives Matter movement and here you can use those fifteen minutes to sign some petitions, read more about this movement, and take action.

“To a police officer or stranger, I am simply a Black man, nothing more nothing less. Even though my father is Black and my mother is white, I’m still in the same class as all my fellow African Americans. I think it’s very important that as a person of color regardless of your hue or percentage we remember are all still Black…”

“Today I walked around Fairfax to document these apocalyptic times. This is what I saw. Peace. Unity. I saw people working together to repair the damage that’s been done…”

“I am ashamed to say that at 17 years old I have seen so many innocent Black people murdered on video that I am numb to them and I just stare sternly in disgust, sadness, fear, and anger at my screen. I didn’t cry when I watched a 7-minute video of George Floyd being killed. The blatant disregard for Black lives that was displayed in that video was when the officer held his knee on George Floyd’s neck after he stopped breathing…”

“They told me “to go back to my country” 

I told them “I was born here, honey”

“…I was all too aware from a young age that when occupying dual heritage, my own feelings of uncertainty came from extensions of other people’s perspectives and labels that were placed upon me…”

“ In this version of the present, everything is exactly the same except for the following: Whereas other races remained at human level, the black race continued to evolve.  By the 1980s, blacks had, for reasons unknown, acquired the ability to fly without technological support or any other form of assistance….”