Pride Action Plan

Recommended readings, resources, and activities on anti-racism, queerness, health + politics, compiled by Olivia McKnight, Sabrina Bleich and Fiona Lowenstein.

Monday: Anti-Racism + Queerness 

• Read: 

  • HoodWitch: Poems, by Faylita Hicks

  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis 

• Watch: 

  • “Effective Allyship: A Transgender Take,” Ashlee Marie Preston, TedxPasadena 

  • “I get it. You want to help fight racism,” Jessamyn Stanley 

• Listen: 

  • Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast hosted by Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnley 

• Follow: 

  • @thegreatunlearn Curated by Rachel Cargle 

• Donate: 

  • Black Trans Media Response Fund

Tuesday: Re-Learning LGBTQ Liberation History 

• Read: 

  • Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis, By Kevin Mumford

  • “Pride Is And Always Was About Rebellion, This Year More Than Ever” by George M. Johnson in Them 

• Watch: 

  • MAJOR! - a documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 73-year-old Black transgender woman

  • Stonewall Uprising - PBS Docu-series 

• Listen: 

  • Making Gay History Podcast, especially the “Stonewall 50” season and episodes on Deborah Johnson & Zandra Rolón Amato, Perry Watkins, and Barbara Smith 

• Follow: 

  • @lgbt_history 

• Donate: 

  • Marsha P. Johnson Institute 

Wednesday: Disease, Politics, + Personal Identity 

• Read: 

  • “It’s Not Obesity, It’s Slavery: We Know Why COVID-19 is Killing So Many Black People” by Sabrina Strings, in The New York Times

  • Black Lesbian Feminist Intellectuals and the Struggle against HIV/AIDS by Darius Bost in Souls.

  • “America’s Hidden HIV epidemic,” by Linda Villarosa in The New York Times

  • “Asian American Feminist Antibodies” (zine), by the Asian American Feminist Collective

  • TWENTY-SEVEN QUESTIONS FOR WRITERS & JOURNALISTS TO CONSIDER WHEN WRITING ABOUT COVID-19 & HIV/AIDS - HIV Doula Work 

• Watch: 

  • “ON: hard decisions & quarantine fatigue,” Erica Chidi

  • Gay, black and HIV positive: America's hidden epidemic - Short Doc 

• Listen: 

  • “How to Learn From a Plague” episode on the Still Processing podcast, hosted by Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris

• Follow: 

  • @itswalela 

  • @wwhivdd

• Donate: 

  • Black AIDS Institute 

Thursday: Art and Expression 

• Read: 

  • “Don’t Call Us Dead” by Danez Smith 

• Watch: 

  • “Films for Escapism” a curated four part film series, a four-part series featuring the works of Black queer artists and filmmakers 

• Listen: 

  • Janelle Monáe Wants To Represent The Underdog — In Music And Onscreen

• Follow: 

  • @tourmaliine

• Donate:

  • Black Trans Femmes in the Arts 

Friday: Health + Wellness

• Read: 

  • “How Wellness Got Whitewashed” by Anita Bhagwandas in Glamour

  • The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

  • “Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery — and are still believed by doctors today,” by Linda Villarosa in The New York Times

• Watch: 

  • “You are doing too much,” The Nap Ministry

  • “We tried to tell you White Yogis,” Shanna Small

• Listen: 

  • “Food Psych” Episode #180: Body Policing, Social Class, and Diet Culture with Sonalee Rashatwar

• Follow: 

  • @fatgirlsdancemovement

  • @healhaus 

  • @dronme

• Donate: 

  • National Queer and Trans Therapist of Color Network

Saturday: Cooking and Food Justice 

• Read: 

  • Hunger Is A Form Of Violence We Must Address and The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty 

  • Michael Twitty: Hunger Is A Form Of Violence We Must Address by Amanda Balagur

• Watch: 

  • Home, A Queer Cooking Series hosted by Travis Alabanza 

• Listen: 

  • Rebel Eater’s Club Podcast with guest Chef Fresh Roberson, a farmer and chef focused on creating access to land

• Follow: 

  • @kiacooks, Kia Damon is a chef, food writer, and host of Supper Club from Nowhere

• Donate: 

  • The Okra Project - collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People

Sunday: Imagining Queer Spaces

• Read: 

  • “Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV,” by Lena Wilson in The New York Times

  • “9 Strategies for Quarantining in a Non-LGBTQ+ Affirming Environment” by Wren Sanders in Them

  • “Sober Queer Spaces Are Giving LGBTQ+ People a Place to Just Be” by Trish Bendix, in Them

  • “Can Gay Bars, an Anchor of N.Y.C. Nightlife, Survive the Pandemic?” by Liam Stack in The New York Times

  • “Gay Bars Can Be Mind-Bogglingly Racist” by Mikelle Street in VICE

  • “Philly Finds Racism, Discrimination Rampant in Gayborhood,” by Alicia Victoria Lozano for NBC Philidelphia 

• Watch

  • Vida, a drama about two Mexican-American sisters who move back to their childhood home in Boyle Heights, LA after the death of their mother

• Listen: 

  • Storycorps: A Beautiful Gray In The Gayborhood 

• Follow:

  • @switchnplay, Brooklyn’s queer drag & burlesque collective

• Donate: 

  • Black Trans Futures