Pre-Corona Political Updates and Celebrities in Quarantine

Welcome to the second half of 2020! Here's hoping act two has more happiness in store for us than the first did, hey? This month we're returning to our regular Politics and Pop Culture format, as well as providing you with a BLM focused Reading, Watching and Listening. Bon app the teeth!

Reading 

*Got some bookshop.org links for ya, not affiliate links! 

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin: https://bookshop.org/books/if-beale-street-could-talk-9780307275936/9780307275936

Red at the Bone by Jaqueline Woodson: https://bookshop.org/books/red-at-the-bone/9780525535270

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid: https://bookshop.org/books/such-a-fun-age/9780525541905

The Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds: https://bookshop.org/books/opposite-of-always/9780062748379

Watching 

• Da 5 Bloods on Netflix 
• Do the Right Thing 
• Malcolm X 
• 13th on Netflix

Listening 

1619 from The New York Times

Code Switch from NPR

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Politics 

Wet’suwet’en

• https://globalnews.ca/news/6936521/wetsuweten-draft-agreement-details/
• https://thepostmillennial.com/alberta-energy-minister-says
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/20/gas-pipeline-wetsuweten-coronavirus-pandemic-indigenous-sovereignty-canada-oil/
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wet-suwet-en-territory-rcmp-armed-officers-1.5633987?cmp=rss

Hong Kong 

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/world/canada/huawei-extradition-meng-wanzhou.html
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/05/27/hong-kong-is-no-longer-politically-autonomous-from-china-pompeo-says/#3a1adf3b30fb
• https://hongkongfp.com/2020/05/28/video-hong-kong-police-conduct-mass-arrests-in-mong-kok-as-clashes-continue-into-night/

Pop Culture

• Celebrities being unrelatable online: https://www.insider.com/celebrities-quarantine-social-media-distancing-have-been-completely-unrelatable-in-2020-4#ellen-degeneres-comparing-being-in-quarantine-to-being-in-jail-21
• Imagine video:https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html
• I Take Responsibility video: https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/2020/06/12/i-take-responsibility-video/
• 'Celebrity Culture Is Burning', New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/arts/virus-celebrities.html
• 'Celebrity Quarantine Posts Are Inflaming Tensions Between The Haves and Have Nots', Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/4/22/21228696/celebrity-quarantine-coronavirus-influencer-instagram-ellen-degeneres-arielle-charnas-class-wealth
• Wear A Damn Mask challenge: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a33023419/celebrity-wear-a-damn-mask-challenge