See my TED talk: how to deconstruct racism one headline at a time

I am releasing something into the world, and it's filled with joy and pain and sadness and much absurdity. My official TED talk is live.

The title: How to deconstruct racism one headline at a time

The topic: That strange, frustrating, unsurprising, phenomenon of white people calling the police on people who are just #livingwhileblack, people opening their own businesses, getting into their own cars, attending their own schools.

The process: I literally collected every story of the #BBQBecky type, immersing myself in all that I could find, and in those headlines I spotted a pattern which turned into a key which unlocked a truth... about the nature and structure of oppression, and about how we can imagine our way into something much better, a sort of mutual liberation. 

When I left the stage -- and I left it ALL on the stage -- I exploded into tears at the release of so much I've been sitting on. I didn't realize how heavy I had been until I felt how light I was on the other side. 

I can't wait for you to see what I've seen, so we can write a better future into being.

This moment is a major transition for me and my work. With this talk, I'm also launching a way for you to join and support what I do through the Patreon platform. I'm so fired up y'all! Things seem so very terrible, and yet we have such an opportunity to make them so very right.

Major gratitude to: The Equal Justice Initiative, Color of Change, Center for Policing Equity, Glitch, U.S. History, and Wakanda.

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