This is utterly brilliant: add the Progressive Shopper extension to your Chrome and it will tell you which brands align to your values (Amazon: bad; Etsy: good)
This video of Black author Kimberly Jones explaining how rioting and looting fit within the larger narrative of the economic oppression of Black people in America will be the most powerful seven minutes you’ll watch this week (“When they say “Why do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighbourhood?” It’s not ours! We don’t own anything! We don’t own anything!”)
Portraits of postal workers
Heads up: The BBC has just released Bernardine Evaristos’ acclaimed novel Girl, Women, Other as audio episodes. You would have seen this book featured on many reading lists over the last few weeks and for good reason: this Booker Prize-winning novel looks at the impact of Britain’s colonial history through the lives of 12 interconnecting characters, and is deeply, deeply moving
Eight books by Black authors that aren’t about Black pain (Bernardine Evaristo makes an appearance here, too)
If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend, may we suggest browsing this extremely comprehensive list of film and TV series that amplify the voices of those most marginalised, put together by the good folk at London’s Whitechapel Gallery?
How to really listen (number 6: resist the urge to make it about you)
In audio news, Lizzie has recently rediscovered online radio station Poolside FM. The site is deliciously retro and there’s loads of mixtapes and channels with good tunes, plus a chat room for those wanting to recreate memories of spending every weekday afternoon talking to boys on MSN Chat (just us?)
Ten things you should know about slavery in Australia (number 1: just because we don’t call it slavery doesn’t mean it isn’t)
PBS has uploaded one of their most requested documentaries to YouTube: their 1985 program on schoolteacher Jane Elliott’s powerful lesson in discrimination. The doco shows how Elliott divided her third-grade class into those with blue eyes and those with non-blue eyes and then instructed the non-blue-eyed group to treat the blue-eyed group as inferior. Unmissable viewing
Over on Twitter, people are sharing the word that they’d most like removed from the English language, and there’s some real doozies in the responses (onboarding 👎 learnings 👎 capacity 👎)
This was such a delight to read: Learning to feel our joy as deeply as our grief
Looking for stress relief? An extremely clever writer realised that Celine Dion’s eight minute classic ‘It’s All Coming Back To Me Now’ just so happens to be the perfect song to crank out an arm workout to (“The song adds an epic quality to the flailing motions and makes the time pass quicker (it’s a surprisingly tough sequence). I find myself on a journey with Celine, remembering a past lover and the pain of moving on, while my shoulders start to burn.”)
Tiny love stories
