If you normally skim captions and look solely at the pictures, I hope that you’ll pause and actually read this caption. Typically, I try to save my social activism for the college classroom (for lots of reasons), but primarily because I’ve had the opportunity to cultivate a safe space and to build a rapport with my students. That community and safe space means that they trust me to guide them through potentially incendiary topics such as race, social class, and gender. I hope that I’ve cultivated a community and safe space here, too. So, today, I’m sharing something that I think about DAILY. Earlier today, I glanced at a roundup a fellow blogger posted on her blog. And, I’ll be incredibly honest here, I’m glad that all I did was glance because I’m sure that I’d be angrier if I had read the post. I was blown away that the roundup features women who look exactly like this blogger. And, I couldn’t stop thinking, there wasn’t at least ONE Black content creator that fits this category???? To be sure, I’m not asking for the tokenism that we often see in college brochures likely featuring Black folx who didn’t even attend that PWI or the social media images that make it clear that a Black person was an afterthought. I’m talking about meaningful, sustainable change. Representation matters SO much. Ask yourself why everyone in your circle looks like you. Ask yourself why you share specific content creators when someone asks for recommendations. Think about those Black squares that were posted in 2020 OR that MLK, Jr. quote (often posted out of context) that you posted less than a month ago. Again, let’s do the work to create sustainable change. Be an ally AND an accomplice. Consistently amplify Black voices.