My audiobook loan just came in! I‘m a #runner- one of the ways I get more reading done since having my kid is by listening to audiobooks while running (with my jogging stroller, it‘s a three-fer!). I‘ve always thought of myself as an #ally, but since #ahmaudarbery I‘ve gotten increasingly concerned about how social media can lend itself to white folx using it to perform allyship without doing the actual work. So this is me, trying to #dothework.

My next read... curious about the #Netflix show and I have a policy of not watching adaptations until I‘ve read the source material, so here goes. I‘m not sure how I missed this one when it was published originally, but I‘m glad I found it. I love a good memoir, and as someone who has spent a surprising amount of time in proximity to the Hasidic community for work reasons (but as an entirely non-Jewish outsider), I‘m very interested in this one.

Just finished this one, and it was so good it inspired me to come back to Litsy to talk about it (can‘t remember my old log-in info, so hi, new account!). I‘m white- I hope I‘m more “woke” than the average suburban white lady, but I‘m still white. So I really appreciated the call to action- it gave a clear picture of what we can DO that won‘t devolve into centering white voices/white tears. Crucial read for all well-intentioned white people.