Friday Five

As a Mexican American from the Bay, I have mixed feelings about Black History Month. It’s not that I don’t value the month’s purpose or mission — I’m all about supporting our sister cultures and celebrating our diverse roots through awareness and knowledge of each other. It’s more about the way in which tokenization can easily occur when it’s limited to 30 days. Or, worse, when we minimize history into something that is solely trapped in the past, rather than unfolding in every moment.

In times of social media, it’s easier than ever to show performative allyship without entering into…