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avbenford has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in December 2019. Resources avbenford has populated their site with include: • Martín Perna creates space for collective music-making • Oakland archivists protect Black queer history from disappearing • Blaq Outside creates Black queer spaces for joy and community • Temescal garden grows roots and resistance on Caltrans land • She told the truth anyway • Pastor preaches at the BBQ ministry • Community + Beer = Survival • Callaloo | Hopkins Press • The Gospel of Mild Sauce - Strangers Guide • London Marquez and Irene Chavez died while in Chicago police custody; COPA investigation continues • Can’t protest? Here are other ways to seek justice for Laquan McDonald • Honoring A Community Icon: Nathaniel Colley Sr. High School Opens • California education leaders discuss Black student disparities • EGUSD Rescinds Expulsion Recommendation Of Black Student Following Community Involvement • A Natomas Teacher Wanted To Make Students ‘Revolutionaries.’ Here’s How The School Superintendent And Community Responded. • Sacramento City Teacher’s Use Of N-Word Sparks Debate About Anti-Racist Training • Sacramento Spanish Teacher Recorded Allegedly Using Racial Slurs In Class. Now, Community Organizers Are Demanding She Be Fired • Fortune Graduates the Bold • Best of Chatham 2020 • Dr. Whirlwind: Poet, Editor, and Educator Dr. Tara Betts Speaks Her Truth • Sestina for the Looting of the Black Body • Krista Franklin is Real AF • Best of Avalon Park, Calumet Heights, & Chatham 2019 (Photography) • Mission Complicated • Mission Accomplished • 10 Stories to Read Right Now : #10 Ode to the Shrimp Tease • Ode to the Shrimp Tease • Green Jobs • Sounds From the Poetry Foundation Block Party • Blaze Vox 2018 • “Hissing Fanon And Fuck You,” Sinister Wisdom #107 Winter 2018. 55. • “What I Didn’t Say,” Sinister Wisdom #106, Fall 2017. 175 • “Mama Rosie Takes a Selfie,” Sinister Wisdom #103, Winter 2017. 117. • How Much Do You Know About Reproductive Justice and How it Affects You?