BIPOC-Led Cultural Organizations Got Tons of Funding in 2020—Then We Left Them High and Dry
That, plus more takeaways from ArtsFund's COVID Cultural Impact Study.
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Jasmine J. Mahmoud Talks to the Author of Mediocre March 1, 2021 In 2015, Black Canadian writer Sarah Hagi tweeted: “Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man.” The sentence “launched a thousand memes, T-shirts, and coffee mugs,” author Ijeoma Oluo writes in her newest book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. She continues, “[t]he sentence struck a chord with so many of us because while we seemed to have to be better than everyone else to just get by, white men seemed to be encouraged in—and rewarded for—their mediocrity.” Five years after that ...