Nov 8, 2022The stories about white people are coming, and what they get wrong might cost us democracyElection day hasn’t come yet but the flurry of articles about white, working class voters has already begun. …4 min read4 min read
Jun 29, 2022White Queers’ Stake in Ending White SupremacyLong before I was out, I was known. I was in 7th grade the first time a group of boys yelled “Wehman’s a Man!” up the stairwell at me. Over the next five years the yelling escalated to shoving, to being buzzed off the road by cars of teenage boys…4 min read4 min read
May 16, 2022Show Up for BuffaloWe are heartbroken and not surprised that over the weekend a white man, fueled by white nationalist ideology, shot and killed 10 people in a Black neighborhood on the East Side of Buffalo. …3 min read3 min read
May 4, 2022White People’s Role in Fighting for Abortion AccessAbortion access is a racial justice issue. As white people, we need to make sure our people show up as a part of movements for reproductive justice, not a block to them. Yesterday, Politico published a leaked draft of a ruling by ultra-conservative Justice Samuel Alito. If the majority of…3 min read3 min read
Jan 6, 2022White People’s Work in Preventing Another January 6thYou’re going to hear a lot of hot takes about January 6th today. About the Capitol police officers, about the select House committee investigating the attacks and saving our democracy, and about the “wild Trumpers” who went to Washington and stormed the Capitol that day. I’ve been watching the news…4 min read4 min read
Nov 19, 2021White People: Organizing Our Own to Stop the Violence“You do have a choice. You don’t have to be a part of the world of the lynchers. You can join the other America. There is another America!” - Anne Braden, white Civil Rights activist I’m sure by now you’ve heard the news that Kyle Rittenhouse- who shot three people…2 min read2 min read
Oct 11, 2020White Queers: Come out for Racial JusticeA letter from SURJ co-founders on #NationalComingOutDay On this National Coming Out Day and all the celebrations it entails, our mood is somber as the Supreme Court make-up threatens hard won LGBTQ equity. We are STILL fighting for basic human rights for queer and transgender people. With this threat, our…4 min read4 min read
Sep 28, 2020G-d Is An AbolitionistThe word crisis comes from the ancient Greek word that means “turning point” deriving from the verb which means “to decide.” Crises come when we reach a breaking point, and we have to make a choice as to which path we will take. The current crisis we are in exposes…8 min read8 min read
Aug 12, 2020Three Years After #Charlottesville; Reflections for Today’s MovementThree years ago on August 11 and 12, over 700 white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, VA for the “Unite the Right Rally,” a gathering that resulted in, among other traumas, the murder of Heather Heyer, a local white anti-racist counter-protestor, may she rest in power. Charlottesville became famous for the…3 min read3 min read
Aug 12, 2020White Women for Defunding the PolicePoor & working class survivors for Black lives We are white women raised in poor and working class families. We are in full solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives call to defund the police and invest in the services that keep communities safe. We live in the US South…5 min read5 min read
