Archives - Yaa Baker
racism
It’s been a year; we need to stop AAPI hate
This atrocity was not the effective trigger to anti-racism and the end of Asian hate at UR that I had hoped it would be.
all lives matter
All Lives Matter excludes those who need it most
In the United States, uplifting “all” too often means prioritizing white uplift.
american politics
A country of compromise
Debating and compromising over the value and autonomy of black bodies on the Senate floor is a well-established tradition of the U.S. government — a tradition which fearlessly and unabashedly screams to black America, “We do not believe in your humanity.”
