You can help the Nonbinary wiki by, This article uses material from the Wikipedia article. Founded by America Ferrera, Ryan … Think about that. “Stay home, risk your life, go out protesting, risk your life. And, as is now par for the course when it comes to political movements, social media – the slogans, the graphics, the hashtags – played a starring role in the spread of information, and the marshalling of funds to the many causes that fall under the Black Lives Matter umbrella. Founded by America Ferrera, …

I was asked if I was a boy almost everyday until well into my late teens. There is something supernatural when we come together, there’s something profound and godly when we are living in and completely connected to the human condition. There was so little sensitivity towards Black lives in general that even saying Black Lives Matter was a radical statement six years ago. We have to be the disrupters of truth in our lifetime. We are going to be so much freer in the future – living self-determined lives, living in accessible communities. Janaya "Future" Khan is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto. Malkia Devich-Cyril : There is the possibility of dialogue with folks that are private. And that was a difficult coming-to-terms for me, because I like the literal and I like what I can see and control. Janaya Future Khan: There’s a reason why I wanted Mac and Thandi here. I definitely didn’t set out to become an activist. There are some people who might think, “This is not my fight. I’m curious as to where you are finding that and what you’re observing that is giving you these moments of hope. Just saying ‘Black lives matter’ is so simple. We need to be more clear about what it means, and we need to understand the framing of it within our movement and also the framing of it (with regards to) targets outside of our movements, to those who really hold the reins of oppression. But instead I got people burning gas stations and stuff. We understand now more than ever that revolution isn’t just the end of something, it’s the beginning of something. Malkia Devich-Cyril : But for the first time in hundreds of years, we’re talking about a whole new way of thinking about security and accountability in terms of institutional policing. A lot of youth organisers are on this dangerous path between staying grounded in real work and being caught up in the brand of Gen-Z activism. And somehow, even through all of this and the enduring chaos of 2020, Khan has managed to find hope, borrowing from fellow activist Mariame Kaba’s philosophy that ‘hope is a discipline’ – words that can perhaps be instructive to us all at a time when many of us are searching for that very thing. So just being in this new environment and walking through that alone without my wife or community, this period has been the most stressful experience of my life. You know, I love it there. I realised that society couldn’t see me in my fullness, but just knowing it was there created an entire new world for me to explore. It doesn’t mean new practices are at hand. And I’m not interested in that. I personally think that all our struggles are, of course, bound together. (In March), we were hit with a global pandemic. How can American Black people be better allies to our Black brethren and sistren all over the world?’ There is a place for a conversation about allyship, you know? Someone imagined borders; someone imagined police. And I think that ends up taking power away from the movement and the struggle altogether, because now what we’re doing is like, here’s a cookie, here’s a gold star for showing up, right? I have chosen a particular front of struggle. Tech and corporate accountability work is so interesting to me, because we are dealing with huge entities that are not regulated in very necessary ways. This work is hard work, but it is always worth it. When you go to prison, maybe you can be let out. So when you ask me how I’m doing, that’s how I’m doing. And I say ‘Black’, but I really mean radical, revolutionary, progressive Black leadership, you know? I realized that to accept the story I was born into would be to accept my own destruction. What is it, an accomplice? We (can) think about it more in the Fred Hampton way of thinking about coalition building, about common interests, about shared vision, and thinking to ourselves that white supremacy hurts everybody.

Janaya Future Khan is a storyteller, activist and co-founder of, New Hampshire Towns Deliver First Election Day Results, Why Experts Aren't Worried About COVID-19 on Packaging, Your Guide to Vote by Mail Deadlines in Every State, You can unsubscribe at any time. Janaya Future Khan: Yeah. What we’re in is a period of instability – political instability, social instability, and there’s going to be more of it. And I don’t know how to characterise why I feel compelled to do this work, in simple terms. And I think that what happens with (some) Gen-Z activism is we have been told that we have to sell the issues in order to gain publicity or gain ground in the work. It Can Also Lead to Activism, 21 Savage: For Black Americans to Undo Centuries of Racist Policies, We Need Financial Literacy, Pharrell Williams: America's Past and Present Are Racist. “And that is what we must continue to bring forth. And also keep in mind I was 11, so studying Black history is reading children’s biographies of Langston Hughes and all of that stuff. They are an activist, author, and amateur competitive boxer. It doesn’t mean any of that.

And in the midst of all of that, this steady stream of murders of Black people, then a multiracial Black-led uprising in response to those murders which also (meant) that people were risking their lives – both because of the police and law enforcement response to that uprising, but also because folks were gathering in large numbers during a global pandemic. (But) there are some things that maybe need to just be straight-up publicly addressed. I now fight for the Black Lives Matter movement for Black lives, because I understand that Black liberation is integral to the liberation of all people. When I think about being an ally, I want to think, ‘How can I be a better ally to my Black disabled community? ’Cos I haven’t even been on Earth that long, but... (laughs) (Those) six years, that’s almost half of my entire life. Janaya Khan is a lecturer, author and co-founder of Black Lives Matter – Toronto. And it was weird because I had studied Black history. It really gave me some of the tools to live in my own fullness, to embrace myself, my body. We blocked the road for six hours and got the police liaison programme terminated. It was in 2014, though, following the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Jermaine Carby in Khan’s native Toronto, both by police officers, that they began fighting on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement as an international ambassador. There’s going to be a backlash we can’t even predict yet. Black women and girls stand at the fulcrum of change or catastrophe. I’m naturally a very cerebral and serious person who prefers to be alone. I think our responsibility is to remove the obstacles towards expertise.

There’s this feeding frenzy on Black leadership. When we rise up and become bigger than the fear that lives in us, I think anything is possible. You are never going to solve or address or confront the reality of racial injustice. That’s why pronouns are scary for people: you are shaking up what people have formerly taken as immutable truths. We learn this with the white conservative right in the US, but (also) in other parts of the world where affirmative action was a thing as well, and (other people) tried to reclaim that language and turn it into something it wasn’t.

(laughs) It’s crazy, (the idea that it’s somehow) not transparent to have a private conversation with an ally before you make something public. It’s crazy. We tried to come up with cute ways to reframe ‘ally’– it’s time that we retired those terms. Because there was a period where we was like, ‘Fire this officer, jail that officer,’ and I think we’ve gone past that as a movement. Whiteness can never confront or change the reality of racial injustice by studying itself. I think this notion of accessibility as it’s commonly used now – save that for amateur burlesque night. They’re about political differences among, basically, allies. I have all these lessons and examples of how, even in a cell, there’s a part of you that’s still free and a part of you that still gets to choose how you want to live. Thandiwe Abdullah: It’s been really interesting. So I don’t know if it’s a simple thing where I can say, well, I watched this video and I felt hope. Against the combined voices of Black Lives Matter protests worldwide since late May, one voice broke through for its clarity, its poise, and its unflinching ability to say what needs to be said, now – and then to push it further.

They have dedicated themselves to telling people what they need to know – the realities of structural racism in our society – in order to open the conversation up to others; within those words, the space for a communal desire to build, grow, change and fight has irrevocably sprung up. So I’d go to any conference they invited me to with a smelly hockey bag full of old boxing gloves, teach people how to box and then go sit in and listen to the expertise of other people.

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