The BIG We Resource List
Just a short list of things to listen to, visit, watch, and read. This list is always growing…have suggestions? Email us at hello@thebigwe.com.
Shoutout to Illuminative for their recommendations.
Listen.
MUSIC
Fannie Lou Hamer - Songs My Mother Taught Me
PODCASTS
GirlTrek’s Black History Bootcamp
The Institute for Black Imagination
Who Yo People Is - Sharon Bridgforth
How to Survive the End of the World - Autumn Brown & adrienne maree brown
Finding our Way - Prentis Hemphill
What Does the AfroFuture Say - Ingrid LeFleur
Watch.
FILMS
Four Films for Stay At Home Viewing Suggested By IllumiNative
Tara Houska TEDTalk - The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for indigenous rights
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Settler-Colonialism and Genocide Policies in North America:
Read.
ARTICLES
Settler Fragility: Why Settler Privilege Is So Hard to Talk About
Native Solidarity with Black Lives Matter as Both Communities Confront Centuries-Long State Violence
The Case For Reparations
Memphis Burning
BOOKS
Where possible we encourage you to find the below titles at your local library, Black owned bookstores or independent BIPOC publishers. Please find a list of Black owned bookstores here.
Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Memories of Abolition Day
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
UNDROWNED by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How to be an anti-racist by Dr. Kendi
BOOK LISTS