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349: Black Lives Matter

Episode Summary

This week, we can't record a podcast talking about pixels and software design. The world is hurting, and the best thing we can do right now is direct people to the resources and organizations that are able to have the most impact in black communities. Please consider reading, learning, introspecting, and donating this week.

Episode Notes

This week, we can't record a podcast talking about pixels and software design. The world is hurting, and the best thing we can do right now is direct people to the resources and organizations that are able to have the most impact in black communities. Please consider reading, learning, introspecting, and donating this week.

Support:

• Black Lives Matter
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Equal Justice Initiative
• We the Protesters
• Reclaim the Block
• George Floyd Memorial Fund
• Campaign Zero
• Stand Against Racial Injustice
• Minnesota Freedom Fund

Read:

• An Antiracist Reading List
• What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Said
• Trevor Noah on George Floyd and the Protests + part 2
• How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
• A thread on design history
• Cross-cultural Design
• Mismatch - How Inclusion Shapes Design
• Algorithms of Oppression
• How to be Antiracist
• So You Want to Talk About Race
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
• The Culture Map
• Black Designers: Missing in Action

Stay safe, everyone 🖤