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The Archive Belongs to Us: Jiya Pinder on Memory and Preservation
“We can’t rely on institutions to hold our stories anymore. And we can’t rely on them to tell the correct versions of our own history.”
 • Tirrea Billings
“You people never show up.” When Anti-Blackness Greets You at the Door
I showed up to my volunteer orientation at the American Red Cross only to be met with my very first experience of racism and anti-Blackness.
 • Tirrea Billings
Trying to Be Okay in a World That Isn’t
It’s time we start treating self-care as part of the work, not a personal indulgence.
 • Tirrea Billings
Do we really need another research report?
There's no point in theorizing without action.
 • Tirrea Billings
The Exhaustion of Proving That Black People Matter
When your profession centers on fighting for racial justice, the work becomes a tiresome cycle that feels never-ending.
 • Tirrea Billings
We deserve better, so let’s build it.
I refuse to accept that the choice is between working within broken institutions or abandoning the work altogether.
 • Tirrea Billings
Tinsley Galyean on Curiosity, Technology, and Redefining What’s Possible
It doesn't do you much good if you're financially stable, but you're not actually servicing your mission.
 • Tirrea Billings
Navigating Proximity to Wealth in Justice Work
I become so fluent in the language of philanthropy that I forget it's borrowed vocabulary from power structures.
 • Tirrea Billings
Jessyca Dudley on Accountability, Extraction, and the Culture of Philanthropy
Philanthropy can’t free us, but it can reduce harm as we work toward something better.
 • Tirrea Billings
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Challenging the nonprofit industrial complex and inviting a more honest, liberating path forward.
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