Grace Anderson on Riding Bikes Down Big Hills, Dreaming Shit Up Together and Subverting Systems of Oppression

The Trail Ahead

Grace Anderson is a dreamer, a builder, and a Black queer feminist who writes and imagines futures where choice is a human right. In this conversation we discuss why she loves to giggle and fly downhills on her bike, solo adventures in the outdoors, the importance of journaling, and learning that it's important to build what you're for and not what you're against. Faith and Grace also talk a lot about their identity as Black women, their journeys to develop and exude a strong pride specifically in that identity, and why it feels so important to them to continue to center Black women in so much of the work. This episode includes a pretty incredible reading list too by the end, so make sure to check out the related links.

Connect with Grace via Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/amaze_me_grace/

ALL THE LINKS:

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Dr. Carolyn Finney

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection by Dorceta E. Taylor

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariama Kaba

The Nap Ministry

Mapping Our Social Change roles in Times of Crisis by Deepa Iyer

MORE LINKS FROM THE DEBRIEF, COMING SOON!

Billie Holiday sings Strange Fruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGAMjwr_j8

The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"

https://www.biography.com/musicians/billie-holiday-strange-fruit

How white Americans used lynchings to terrorize and control black people, The Guardian (trigger warning: graphic images and stories)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/26/lynchings-memorial-us-south-montgomery-alabama

Jim Crow Laws

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws

Harriet Tubman, an Unsung Naturalist, Used Owl Calls as a Signal on the Underground Railroad

https://www.audubon.org/news/harriet-tubman-unsung-naturalist-used-owl-calls-signal-underground-railroad

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/

Emmett Till

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/emmett-till-1

Historical Database of Sundown Towns

https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/

Sundown Town research specific to Oregon, where Faith lives

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonmulticulturalarchives/2019/06/05/sundown-towns-2019/

The Jim Crow Roots of Loitering Laws

https://the-ard.com/2022/05/31/the-jim-crow-roots-of-loitering-laws/

A Visual History of Loitering Laws

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/what-is-loitering-really

AMERICA RECKONS WITH RACIAL INJUSTICE

Law Professor On Misdemeanor Offenses And Racism In The Criminal System

Heard on All Things Considered, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/12/876221163/law-professor-on-how-misdemeanors-sweep-blacks-into-the-criminal-system

Sharecropping: Slavery By Another Name

https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/sharecropping/