ISSUE NO. 612
IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE . . . 

And while many folks can retreat into the comfort of air conditioning, we urge you to feel the heat. Sit in it, and sit with it - even just temporarily - and let the experience mobilize you into action. 

We know the feeling of exhaustion that so many people have right now. It's hard to fathom combatting an issue as large as climate change when you are struggling to get through each day. And it's hard to tackle every competing crisis knowing each one is worthy of our focused attention. 

As always, find ways to let your humanity mobilize you - even in the smallest ways - and remember that there is no single person that can 'save the world'.

Embrace community and invest even just a small amount of time, energy, or money with organizations that make it their mission to organize in an effective way. On the topic of climate justice, consider getting involved with 350.org, subscribing and listening to The Joy Report, and filling your feed with more young climate activists of color to stay in touch with the information and ideas that will allow you to persist in this work. 
 

You cannot save the world alone, but our repeated collective action can. 

In community,

Tay + Dor

photo by Christine Han

tidbits...

resources on anti-racism, environmentalism and food culture AKA stuff we're reading / listening to / watching / noticing / thinking about / captivated by this Tuesday . . .
 

Seven signs of a liberatory workplace...that you can see from the job description - by Michelle Dominguez for Community-Centric Fundraising.

"We must remember that civility is a tool of white supremacy. " - The Adaway Group's newsletter on the overturn of Roe v. Wade and where we go from here.

This quote from Tim Kreider's NY Times opinion piece titled 'It's Time to Stop Living the American Scam' hit hard: "Of course, everyone is still busy — worse than busy, exhausted, too wiped at the end of the day to do more than stress-eat, binge-watch and doomscroll — but no one’s calling it anything other than what it is anymore: an endless, frantic hamster wheel for survival."

The Entrepreneurship Forum and Incubator Program, from Boston Public Market, is a series of educational seminars to strengthen emerging local small businesses, and its Incubator Program is an opportunity for minority-owned businesses to sell in the Market for up to one year free of charge. Applications are being accepted through August 1st. 

“Regimes do not possess language. They do not possess culture.” - Ocean Vuong in an interview worth listening to more than once, from the We Can Do Hard Things podcast. 

Descendants of Frederick Douglas read parts of his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" and you won't want to miss their personal comments at the end of this striking video.

View and share this free guide to How to Write a More Equitable Job Post, and stay tuned for new resources to deepen this work.

"We have to preserve our individuality, the Indigenous quality of our food because it is only then would people come to know about our culture and tradition." Read the latest GFJ Story on Axone, or Akhuni, a fermented soya bean paste that illuminates the politics of translating 'stinky' foods to unaccustomed palates. Words by Makepeace Sitlhou, photos by Devraj Chaliha.

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