BYP x AirGo
Airgo x BYP with Janae Bonsu
Janae Bonsu talks about learning stillness and finding peace, imagining new interventions when gender violence needs to be addressed, her cheese game, and much more.
Politics
Big Pharma and the prison industry are colluding to overmedicate incarcerated populations
The majority of early testing of psychiatric medications in the 1930s and 1940s were done on incarcerated populations.
Word
“While writing their hot-takes on “laziness”, did folks forget about people with obvious physical injuries and disabilities? The elderly gran-mammies and pappies they never talk to?”
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Now is an opportunity for Black folks to reimagine what constitutes loss
Human loss, as Black folk know, isn’t counted in corpses alone. It is the psychic, interior soul losses that mount and brutalize perspective.
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COVID-19 or not, Black folks are building virtual spaces of joy, intimacy and tenderness
We are building, modeling and actualizing extensions of intimacy that will survive far beyond this epidemic.
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Comic: Stop mocking accessibility and mobility tools for the disabled and elderly
Lord knows, most people complaining about accessibility and mobility devices wouldn’t last a week in the shoes of the disabled.
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The siblings of disabled youth are committed to building more accessible worlds
These are skills that can be and must be learned to help all of us grow and to build a more accessible world.
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Black folks die from broken hearts all the time
Within 30 days of a loved one dying, the chances of heart attack exponentially increase, making it possible to die from a broken heart.
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I’ll always be the “angry” and “unreasonable” Black student when I call out racism on my campus
I’ve spent the last five years of my life repressing my racial trauma to transform moments of retraumatization into moments of learning for non-Black people
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I’ll always be the “angry” and “unreasonable” Black student when I call out racism on my campus
I’ve spent the last five years of my life repressing my racial trauma to transform moments of retraumatization into moments of learning for non-Black people
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“Believe survivors” is inadequate for confronting the power dynamics that fuel sexual abuse
It’s not that we should just believe survivors; we should trust that anyone with the means and motive to abuse other people is likely to do so.
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Black men’s body dysmorphia needs to be discussed more openly among us
Mapping my body dysmorphia is mapping my body along the geography of the Black body, the Black male body, from the hold to the present.
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The endless appropriation of MLK and white supremacy’s need to rewrite historical narratives
This appropriation of MLK is yet another way for them to disidentify with the violences of whiteness without relinquishing whiteness itself.
Entertainment
Talking to Black youth about the complexities of sexual racism after Wilder v Fury
There should be concern for Black male youth’s embodiment of their sexual selves, needs and how they understand the world around them.
Education
Shedding the need for white validation and embracing the nuances of Black knowledge
In order for me to repair my relationship with learning, I had to re-evaluate the forms of knowledge that I was prioritising.
Videos
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According to Vox, eight players from the Ole Miss men’s basketball program knelt during the national anthem in protest of a rally on campus in support of... more
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According to the Miami Herald, a 50-year-old man from Philadelphia who lives in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite... more
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According to USA Today, an independent autopsy commissioned by the Bradford family shows that Emantic Bradford Jr. was shot from behind three times by police during the... more
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Border Patrol fires tear gas, chases asylum seekers and closes the border to keep them out of the US
According to Buzzfeed News, late Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents temporarily closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry, one of the most used border crossings in the... more
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The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK) Foundation, led by Kerry Kennedy, started a month-long mission to bail out hundreds of women and juveniles at Rikers Island.... more
BYP x AirGo
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Janae Bonsu talks about learning stillness and finding peace, imagining new interventions when gender violence needs to be addressed, her cheese game, and much more.
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. This month’s #BYPSpotlight... more
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. First up is Barbara... more
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AirGo is back for our second episode in front of a live audience! This time, we’re excited to launch our #BYPSpotlight, a collaboration with Black Youth Project, a... more
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Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more
Religion
Millennials aren’t skipping church, the Black Church is skipping us
In a time where Black people and youth are reclaiming their authenticity and culture, the Black church needs to immediately reform its practices.
Gender-and-sexuality
The colonial politics of desirability, fitness and gay manhood
To discuss desirability, we must first identify the external influences that are foundational in shaping which bodies are “acceptable” and which aren’t.
Race
Talking to Black youth about the complexities of sexual racism after Wilder v Fury
There should be concern for Black male youth’s embodiment of their sexual selves, needs and how they understand the world around them.
Health
Black folks die from broken hearts all the time
Within 30 days of a loved one dying, the chances of heart attack exponentially increase, making it possible to die from a broken heart.
