#bipoclivesmatter

[raincityathletics]

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

We will be staying open & regular schedule for the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation - but we’ll still be doing our part! We’ll be showing our support via the Downtown Eastside Women’s Center. An incredible organization that is utilized largely by unhoused indigenous women.  

For every orange shirt worn to class (or open gym) on Friday, Raincity athletics will donate $5.

We’re donating 100% of proceeds from our (remaining) orange shirts.

We’ll match any RAthlete donations made to the DEWC! (up to $500 total).

Shirts must be purchasd at the gym - so come in to grab one! Orange shirts will be tracked by coaches throughout the day (or tag is on IG and show us!), and forward donation receipts to [email protected] for us to track / match :)

For those who came for our Decolonization talk with Salia Joseph we know that throwing money at a problem won’t solve it (but it always helps) so we’re asking our community to continue to do the work, and read up on some of our prior posts that we’ve put out on Canada day with some steps YOU can take to be a part of the solution <3 

Click here for Canada day posts on the news blog.

#raincitynews #raincitywoke #bipoc #bipoclivesmatter #indigenouseducation

[christinaroseandrews]

All Countries Matter!

#all countries matter #fourth of july #july 4th #black lives matter #black trans lives matter #bipoclivesmatter

[withoutanaestheticc]

I’ve seen quite a few people complain across all of social media about everyone’s need to ‘make an issue out of everything’, that we are so ‘sensitive’ and that ‘things were fine the way they used to be’

And all I can think is how incredibly sad that makes me. Cause imagine the complete lack of empathy you must have in your soul. To know of so many atrocities in this world and see people wanting change as a weakness, a bother.

Like who didn’t give you enough love in your life that you’ve voided your ability to feel for others?

Who made you so comfortable in your vanity and selfishness that you feel comfortable publicly acknowledging that a problem that doesn’t directly effect you is not a problem worth fixing?

#yall made a bigger statement #being ignorant #BLM #f1 blm #bipoclivesmatter #BIPOC #black lives matter #black lives movement #movement #social justice #FYI being abused is never an excuse to be an asshole #as an adult you are responsible for making yourself better #work on yourself #fight for others #cause when they come for you who will be left to fight for you? #some of yall need to just sit down and shut the fuck up #some of yall have never been smacked and it shows #some of you are really down for the cause #LGBTQIA+ #lgbtq community #lgbtq #intersectional social justice #no justice no peace

[asraspeaks2]

This.

#black lives matter #black lives count #black lives are important #white supremacy #white supermacists #white issue #bipocvoices #bipoc #bipoclivesmatter #bipoc representation

[daughterofdessalines]

Thank you to the Young people 🇺🇸 BIPOC ✊🏾 LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 who don’t get thanked enough.

#bipoclivesmatter #lbgqt #black trans lives matter #millennials #gen z #you are appreciated #election results #2020 presidential election #us election 2020 #twiiter

[nerethos]

See a writer calling LGBTQIA+ weirdos, crazy, and making fun of us. Lesbophobic, biphobic, panphobic, and sapphicphobic. BIQPOC deserve better. We deserve better. Ruby deserves better.

#ruby baptiste #lovecraft country #bipoc representation #bipoclivesmatter #lesbophobic writers #biphobic writers #panphobic writers #sapphicphobic writers #lgbtqia+phobic writers #internalized racist writers

[chachamoonchild]

A little more progress on this piece. Still rough blocking and getting everything in its place before the detail rendering starts.

#figurativepainting #figurativeart #art #artists on tumblr #artwork #my art #latinxartists #latinx #latinxcreatives #latinaartist #latinapainters #bipocmakers #bipoc #bipocvoices #bipoclivesmatter #blm2020 #blm art #boricua #borinquen #puertorico #acrylicpainting #acrylic #inprogress #wip #ocean #oceanart #ocean waves #oceanview #oceanhealing #beach

[2frochicks]

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY 🖤 + + @belraye // Indigenous People Day What BIPOC communities are in your roots? I remember going home telling my brother, who was in 7th grade I learned that “Christopher Columbus discovered America.” He quickly corrected me and explained the history of Native Americans and the blood shed for this very land. This family filled with promise is built on the backs of Native American history(both @truosborne and I family but we are not highly informed of the history ), Caribbean(Trinidad,St. Croix )🇹🇹 🇻🇮, Latin 🇵🇷 , and Southern American 🇺🇸Slavery(Charleston SC, Tarboro, NC) We hear, the “pick up your bootstrap” or “move on” speeches as a means to say we can BE whoever we want to BE and “no one is holding YOU back”. The truth is we have. We’ve evolved, became, doctors, lawyers, Commander in Chief, leaders, and so much more but it does not negate the reality we face EVERYDAY to just BE who we are not even who we want to be! For BIPOC community we stand with you. Communities that have been and are currently impacted by colonialism, genocide, slavery, and oppression in any form we stand with you. We’ve grown and have so much more to go but we MUST stick together in love. ❤️🙏🏾 📸 @snaplikeagirl Creative Director @snaplikeagirl Lead Assistant @regina.charlieprod 💄 @Niasia #indigenouspeoplesday #happyindigenouspeoplesday #BIPOC #bipoclivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQ2G84l4yG/?igshid=a4xtz2jv811v

#indigenouspeoplesday #happyindigenouspeoplesday #bipoc #bipoclivesmatter

[withinsight-motivation]

#blacklivesmatter #blacklivesalwaysmatter #allblacklivesmatter #trans lives matter #bipoclivesmatter #keepyourfootonthegas

[novas-tunnel-of-anxiety]

look me in the eye

look me in the eye and say all lives matter

they do. 

then why aren’t you helping them? 

the lives that matter? 

yall should help them. since they all matter.

the ones with black/brown skin who can’t trust 1) law enforcement, 2) politicians, 3) judges, 4) healthcare professionals, 5) teachers/school admins, 6) bosses/managers, 7) neighbors, 8) ANYONE around them honestly.

help the ones in kashmir, in yemen, in syria, in iraq, in afghanistan, in flint michigan to name a few.

help the BIPOC who are constantly abused, physically and emotionally by media, by politicians, by teachers, by everyone around them. killed, assaulted, verbally assaulted, etc.

help the little kids trying to just find their forever homes. their new mommies/daddies can love whoever they want or whatever gender they assign themselves. they are heroes, more than you ever will be.

help and support the ones who identify with something BARELY (or a very) different than what they were labeled at birth with.

help the women and men, who just want to live safely.

the mothers who can’t even safely give birth

the people who are just walking

the people who just wanted help

the people who are just trying to do their job

the people who matter

because everyone does

don’t they?

if they do, then help the ones who need it.

#blm #black lives matter #all lives fucking matter #all lives are precious #lgbt rights #bipoclivesmatter #lgbt lives matter #ACAB #1312 #sorry if i forgot someone #i needed to say this #i hope something reads this #i just have a lot of emotions #fuck the police #if im missing something pls tell me

[raincityathletics]

Canada Day 2021

A year ago we posted on Canada day a list of resources for our community to learn more about the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. We acknowledged that we live in an incredible country, but it’s important to acknowledge how we got here. 

With the recent discoveries of thousands of children’s bodies and unmarked graves at former residential school across the country, our request of our community to educate themselves is more important than ever. (If you haven’t seen on the news, you can read more on the CBC website HERE).

We’re not cancelling Canada Day, but we are re-allocating it’s resources...

The goal is not to ‘cancel’ Canada day, as Canada is still an incredible country that we’re extremely proud to live in, but that doesn’t mean we’re proud of every aspect of it. Just like your coaches constantly criticize you (out of love) to help improve your fitness; it’s important to be critical of our country, and to acknowledge it’s dark past so that we can remove the bad technique’s and habits of the past. 

So instead of celebrating on Canada day while thousands of Indigenous communities mourn, we ask that you instead utilize this time (and day out of the gym) to educate yourself, better yourself, and commit to taking action to help us make our incredible country even better.

Raincity Takes Action

This year we’ve decided that asking our community to educate themselves isn’t enough. So we have been on the look out for ways we can get our community involved. On recommendation of a RAthlete, we are reaching out to James Harry and his colleagues from the Nisga'a, Squamish and Heiltsuk First Nations who run an initiative called All Nations Outreach. (Read more about them: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/first-nations-hire-outreach-workers-to-find-their-own-people-on-vancouver-s-downtown-eastside-1.5829548)

James works with the All Nations Outreach to help feed hundreds of First Nations people on the downtown east side every week, and we want to help.

If you’re interested in getting involved and volunteering your time, please contact coach Thor, we’ll be in touch once we have some dates and times to volunteer and help lined up. 

Remember this is just one of MANY things you can be doing, we’ll list a few below from Curiocity Vancouver, starting with one of the most important ones: 

READ THE TRC REPORT

For direct source information on the residential school system in Canada, you can read the disturbing but informative Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report. The report details the horrific truth of the ways that Indigenous populations have been treated in the country. It also provides 94 calls to action that folks can engage in at a federal, provincial, territorial, and individual level.

OH, AND WE’RE CLOSED ON CANADA DAY...

And a quick reminder that we’ll be closed July 1st, not to celebrate, but to prepare for the return of group classes :)

10 great ways to support Canada’s Indigenous Communities this July 1st

From Curiocity Vancouver: https://curiocity.com/10-ways-to-support-canadas-indigenous-communities-this-july-1st

WEAR AN ORANGE SHIRT

SHOP INDIGENOUS-OWNED BUSINESSES

FIND A MARCH NEAR YOU

FIND OUT WHO’S LAND YOU LIVE ON

DONATE TO THE INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVAL SOCIETY

DONATE TO THE LEGACY OF HOPE FOUNDATION

FOLLOW INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

READ A BOOK BY AN INDIGENOUS AUTHOR

WATCH AN INDIGENOUS-MADE FILM

#canadaday #raincityschedule #raincitynews #raincityreading #bipoclivesmatter

[agaves-apples]

Racism in Canada Needs to Be Recognized

I cant believe I’m sitting here on tumblr dot com writing this because this is the only place I feel it’ll be seen. As someone who promotes political activism and makes me incredibly disheartened to see little-to-no information being spread by my fellow Canadians about our equally racist past. My theory to as why this is the case is that, a lot like America, our education system suppresses how much bad white Canadians have done to other ethnicities. Sure, we may have been taught about the residential schools which massacred Indigenous children and cultures, however we are never taught about Canadas involvement in the slave trade and its long lasting segregation. When Europeans first arrived in Quebec, starting the colony of New France, they had brought black slaves with them as slavery was common in Europe. Eventually New France was conquered by the British in 1759 it was found that there were around 3, 600 enslaved people were living there since the colony's beginning. These included both black people via the Transatlantic slave trade, and Indigenous people. After the British had taken over New France was renamed to British North America and slavery continued. slavery would then be abolished 48 years later on March 25, 1807 as the Transatlantic slave trade was also abolished – However the fight for human rights was far from over. As slavery was continued in America Canada had been considered a safe haven for escaped slaves and black folks a-like. However when arriving white people living in Canada at the time still viewed them as inferior, because of this black folks where pushed out society and forced to live in the most inhospitable areas. one of these being a small community name Africville, Nova Scotia. Africville was a close-knit community on the outskirts of Halifax that made up of mostly black people and existed for around 150 years. Discrimination and poverty were well known to the people living there as Halifax refused to provide any amenities like fresh water and garbage disposal services despite the people living there paying taxes. In 1964 the city council in Halifax decided to relocate the people of Africville with out telling the residence. If residence had evidence that they owned property then they would be compensated an equal amount to what their property was worth. It has been said that bribery and intimidation were used. in the end Africville was destroyed in janurary of 1970. This is still very little information about our racist history, I still haven't talked about the starlight tours, the Japanese-Canadian concentration camps, or even any of the injustices that are still happening today. I will link my sources and more information if you are curious to learn more. I can also answer any questions you may have about anything written here. I may also be writing more stuff like this in the future if i see further interest in these topics! please feel free to reblog!! sources/more information: Africville history History of slavery in Canada Segregation Rascism timeline Canadian Museum for Human Rights

#blm #blacklivesmatter #support bipoc #bipoclivesmatter #history #can dianabol increase height

[yearningsaphic]

calling black people (bi)poc erases the black community. calling a specific race (bi)poc erases all (bi)poc communities

#bipoc matter #bipoc #bipoc representation #bipoclivesmatter #black lives matter #poc #lgbt poc #all poc are not same #latino #latino lives matter #latinx #asian people #asian

[upcycleability]

The Yakama and Other Indigenous Communities Need Our Help

COVID-19 has had a disasterous effect on one of the most persecuted members of our communities. Those of us who can should help out in any way possile.

There are many communities that need your help. Here is a link on a few different ways to help them out http://tewawomenunited.org/covid-19-how-to-help-native-communities/ First Nations people have the highest risk of contracting Coronavirus, and helping them out is the least that we can do. If you cannot provide finanacial support, consider providing supplies to these groups (always contact the organizations first)

I am going to be making some masks, and donating some hand sanitizer. I do not have much, but if I can help, I will.

Please do your part as well.

#first nations #indigenous peoples #indigenous people's rights #COVID19 #coronavirus #global pandemic #environmental justice #climate justice #charity #mutual aid #black lives matter #bipoclivesmatter #bipoc

[asraspeaks2]

There will be a global reckoning.

#nayyirah waheed #bipoc #bipocvoices #bipoclivesmatter #black lives matter #black lives count #black lives are important

[browngirlsintherain]

We are going live in 3 days!

On August 30th at 7 pm eastern we will be having our first book club meeting discussing The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole which highlights the struggles of living as a Black person in Canada.

Join us on the second and last Sunday of each month as we discuss diverse stories featuring voices of colour

#poc #black people #people of color #people of colour #books #black tumblr #diversity #comics #bipoc owned #bipocvoices #bipoc representation #bipoclivesmatter #bipoc creators #bipoc books #bipoc writers #bipoc matter #book club #BGITRbookclub #brown skin girl #brownskin #brown girls #Browngirlsintherain #Tamil #caribbean #Youtube