Coconut Cheesecake Biscuit Bombs
San Diego has these places I affectionately call Liquor Delis and they’re the weirdest thing. As the name implies, they’re liquor stores that are . . . also delis. Maybe you grew up with this and it’s totally normal for you, but to me this is about as weird as the gas station in North Carolina that sells fried chicken (the best fried chicken ever, incidentally). And even weirder than these places existing is the fact that they’re my new favorite thing.
Almond Biscuit Bombs
Calling the police on Black people puts them in danger. White folks, we’ve started to use calling the police more as a way to keep people out of certain spaces or prevent certain behaviors than to respond to legitimate emergencies. When we do this without examining our biases — without asking ourselves why we feel like certain people don’t belong or certain behaviors are a nuisance — it’s not surprising that the outcomes tend to be racist.
There are plenty of recent examples: the white woman who called police on Black people barbecuing, the white woman who called police on a Black woman taking a nap in her dorm common room, the white woman who called police on two Black men waiting for a friend at Starbucks. Any of these could’ve ended in tragedy. One solution is obviously dealing with the militarized and racially biased policing that is simply a fact in our country.
But another? Another is to STOP CALLING THE POLICE. I’ve grappled with this over the past few years as a white woman, and here’s my own personal plan:
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Sweet Onion Crostini
Audre Lorde is teaching me all the things lately via Sister Outsider. One of the things she said that struck me is how hard it was for her to write prose because her thoughts didn’t seem to work like everyone else’s. They were more feelings and intuition. Applying this linear order to those “thoughts” and using grammar to arrange and spread them was harder work given their natural state.
Milk Toast
Every single teacher has a plan. Not just the school’s plan, the one you practice together. Their own PERSONAL plan they run through again and again every time this happens. We‘ve all imagined over and over what we’d do — how we’d try to save our babies if the final moments came.
Buttery Broccoli Bread
We haven’t talked about exercise in foreverrrr. I’m kind of in a weird space about it.
