Summer Reading 2020: Do the Work
Image from @jane_mount on Instagram I usually slam into summer--physically and mentally exhausted--ready to recharge through the escape of books. But like so many of you, I'm feeling soul tired. And if I'm weary--a privileged white woman in America--then I can't imagine how my Black friends feel. So I refuse to drape the veil of indifference over myself, slip into "summer mode," and resume this "heavy" reading in a more convenient season. That is the very essence of White privilege and one of the reasons we keep repeating this horrific cycle of brutality against People of Color. Nope. This will be a "self-work summer" for me--to continue the hard, necessary work of becoming an antiracist. This is the 10th year that I've shared my Summer Reading List in this space, and it's not the first time that I've shared my journey to learn more about systemic racism. I started leaning into the discomfort when in 2016 a Hispanic stude