Black Lives Matter: How you can help ( Resources )

I get a lot of my information on the current situation from instagram.

Here are the resources that I have gathered from various users on Instagram

as well as people and organisations that you should consider donating to

during this difficult period. 

First, two links to resources for those who are struggling right now, 

and need financial or legal help:

(Provided by @lilperc666)

And here are a few posts that stood out to me that gave some good information on 

organisations you should consider donating to as well as people you should

consider helping:

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Black Led LGBTQ+ organizations and Mental Health resources! stay safe and stay together guys 🖤 thank you @jamalrich_ and @alokvmenon !!!comment down below if you have any to add to the lists! black lives matter🖤 #blacklivesmatter

A post shared by MILES (@themilesmckenna) on Jun 2, 2020 at 10:11am PDT

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educate yourself #blackouttuesday

A post shared by risse (@rissespuffs) on Jun 2, 2020 at 2:05pm PDT

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Let’s do what we can to support. Rather than posting a black box, I think it’d be better to share resources on how we can help those in need and educate ourselves. I’ve put a link in my bio to blacklivesmatter.carrd.co which includes helpful links too.

A post shared by Nynne (@beanynne) on Jun 2, 2020 at 8:23pm PDT

 

To be honest the call for help is vast an overwhelming. The list of people in need is countless so

please, if there is any organisation, person or cause that you feel is related to this situation, feel 

free to comment in the comment section and I will try my best to include as many as possible 

by updating this post with links to those organisations or places.

This post is for those who are currently being affected by the current situation, so please only include links and information in the comment section to organisations that support Black people or are run by black people who need aid in anyway. I will be looking through each comment and will reply to those that are appropriate, and will delete those that are not. Thank you. 

And for those who are not black and are looking for ways to be an ally:

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(Guide via @gisellebuchanan) I’ve learned so much. I’ve practiced sitting with myself in my discomfort. I am descended from oppressors. People who drove indigenous people from their lands in the name of religion. People who owned slaves. I have always loved learning about my family history. I feel a connection to many of my ancestors. But too often I have turned a blind eye to the fact that they were oppressors. Everything I have accomplished has been made easier because of my skin. I’ve benefited from hundreds of years white supremacy and systemic racism. A reality I need to look straight in the face if I want to be a better ally. I don’t mean to make this about me and my white discomfort. But hopefully other white people can benefit from hearing it. I don’t know. I do know that I don’t want to be comfortable. It’s our job to face this. . . . . I’ve been posting some great resources I’ve discovered the past few days and you can check them out on my profile under “resources”. I’ll keep posting more, as well as the many black artists I find. . . . . If you repost this guide to your story, please do it directly from @gisellebuchanan’s post if you can!

A post shared by Hannah Hillam (@hannahhillam) on Jun 4, 2020 at 2:44pm PDT