Supporting BLM isn’t a trend or social media phase—it’s an ongoing, personal, unapologetic commitment to confronting anti-Black racism and seizing every possible opportunity to build real, lasting justice.
This goes right to the bone. If you identify as a woman, if you’re part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, if you’re leftist, if you’re childfree, if you live at the wild intersection that is modern American womanhood—then supporting BLM isn’t just something you do.
It’s something that’s in your marrow because you know what it’s like to feel the world stacked against you.
For Black lives to truly matter, it’s not enough for us just to talk—we need to uproot the old systems, disrupt the status quo, and yes, support BLM with our full hearts.
This commitment is not sanitized or watered down so that it’s comfortable for conservative comfort zones.
No. Support BLM means getting uncomfortable, listening fiercely, and changing the rules. It’s not transactional. It’s transformational.
Why I Choose to Support BLM Every Single Day
Let’s get something straight: Support BLM is about rage, love, grief, hope, and revolutionary optimism.
There is no “neutral” ground.
When I see the endless loop of Black death and state violence on the news, when I read stories about Black trans women murdered and forgotten, when I saw the aftermath of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain—I realized neutrality is complicity.
Neutrality is violence with softer edges.
I support BLM because I refuse to be complicit. I refuse to accept a world where my Black friends, neighbors, colleagues, and chosen family must live in perpetual fear.
Support BLM is the baseline: it means showing up. It means knowing my privilege and wielding it like a tool (never a weapon).
It means meeting silence with my shouts. The world doesn’t get better through passive hope. Support BLM was, and will always be, a verb.
What Support BLM Looks Like in Real Life
It would be easy to say that supporting BLM just means reposting graphics or hashtags as if that’s the sum total. It’s not.
Social media has a role, sure, but support BLM means turning virtual activism into real world, day-in and day-out action.
For me, support BLM means I show up at protests—not just the big ones that make the headlines, but the small, local ones where everyone recognizes each other.
It means when there’s a march for Black trans lives, I go—even if it’s raining, even if I have to rearrange my schedule.
If I can’t make it in person, I amplify the event, I donate to the organizers, I refuse to let it slip by unnoticed. That is what support BLM means.
It means organizing rapid response networks with other women and LGBTQIA2S+ folks, so when there’s violence or threats, people are not facing it alone.
Support BLM is all about collective defense, collective breath, collective rage.
Money Where My Mouth Is
Let’s be real—it takes resources to keep movements thriving and pressure building. Support BLM isn’t just symbolic.
Every time I get paid, I donate a portion, however small, to organizations led by Black organizers. Groups like the National Black Justice Coalition, the Movement for Black Lives, and local mutual aid funds in my own city.
Money is not the only answer, but in a capitalist country, withholding it from oppressive systems and channeling it into Black radical power is real.
Supporting BLM looks like choosing Black-owned businesses—especially women, queer, or trans Black-owned ones—over big corporations that ignore or exploit communities.
Support BLM also means refusing to cross picket lines, refusing to invest my energy or time in businesses, nonprofits, or even friends who refuse to say, with their chests, that Black Lives Matter.
Support BLM in Our Daily Conversations
Here’s the thing—support BLM doesn’t stop when the hashtags stop trending.
In my family group chat or work Slack, I do not stay quiet when someone starts with,
“But All Lives Matter…” I don’t shrink from calling out white fragility or respectability politics when I see someone try to derail conversations about justice. Is it awkward? Yes.
But I owe it to my Black loved ones to be far more worried about their lives and safety than my own momentary discomfort.
Support BLM is a radical refusal to let racism slide—even the “little” stuff. No more excusing “jokes.” No more redirecting convos because someone feels “attacked.”
We’re grown. Support BLM means demanding more from everyone—myself included.
How Supporting BLM Really Starts
Support BLM is not performative guilt.
It is learning, it is being teachable, sometimes being called out and called in. I read, I listen, I watch.
I seek out Black women writers, Black queer and trans voices, Black disabled advocates.
Support BLM means divorcing myself from egotistical “savior” garbage—knowing that Black folks have led liberation movements for centuries, and our job is to show up, listen, support, resist, and amplify.
And when I mess up? Because I will. Support BLM means I don’t center myself. I apologize, make it right, learn, do better.
We live in a racist society, and we’re always unlearning. If you value support BLM, you value feedback and growth, not deflection.
History Matters
Some people will sneer and say, “Why are you still talking about slavery? That was so long ago.” Ugh. But systemic racism is alive, pulsing, poisonous.
If you want to really support BLM, look at our history in the eye—no rose-colored glasses.
You might be interested to check out my deep dive here, on BLM’s real history, for everything I learned the hard way.
Our country was built on the backs of enslaved Black people and genocide of Indigenous people.
The prison-industrial complex, police brutality, redlining, environmental racism, educational apartheid—these are not bugs in the system. They ARE the system.
Support BLM means facing that, not deflecting from it.
It means advocating loudly for deep reparations—actual transfer of land, money, resources, power—not just vague “equity.”
Check out my post on what reparations really mean if you want to go deeper there.
Intersectionality Is Everything When We Support BLM
As a woman, and someone who outright rejects the “traditional family” path, I know that our movements can’t exist in silos.
To support BLM is to support Black queer and trans lives.
Black disabled lives. Black women and femmes. Black youth. Young, old, poor, neurodivergent—our solidarity must be radical, not conditional.
Feminism that ignores anti-Blackness is useless. Gay rights that do not fight for Black trans women are hollow pinkwashing.
My feminism, my queerness, my politics—they are nothing if not aligned with a relentless, radical support BLM.
When you fight for one, you fight for all.
Why I Oppose the “Respectability” Trap in Supporting BLM
Here’s something I rarely see people talk about. For decades, Black folks have been told, “If you just protested politely, we’d listen.”
That’s a lie. Support BLM is not about soothing white discomfort. It’s about disruptive, unapologetic power stealing.
If we believe in support BLM, we support both peaceful and disruptive forms of protest—because actual justice has never been watered down or polite. Justice has always been loud.
We don’t police the “tone” of Black women activists, or dissect what protest signs “should” say.
If you care about support BLM, the job is to listen to Black leadership—not critique it from the gaze.
Fighting for BLM Is Also Self-Care
This work is exhausting—and it needs to be. Being “woke” isn’t a finish line. We need to pace ourselves.
Support BLM means being here for the long marathon, not the short spring.
Sometimes that means unplugging from endless trauma cycles and distraction-bait, and plugging INTO Black joy, Black love, Black art, and Black community.
Our movements need to feed our souls, not just drain our spirits. Joy IS resistance.
How You Can Support BLM in Your Own Life
So, how can you support BLM in your own way, starting today?
Listen more than you talk. Let Black folks lead. Speak up when racism shows up, even in “polite” company.
If you can, give money, not just attention.
Buy Black—and especially from Black women, nonbinary, and queer folks. If you have a platform, amplify Black voices, not just as a “one-off” but as a rule.
Support BLM means moving your money, energy, time, and risk toward the people whose lives depend on it.
And if you mess up, don’t crumble—apologize, fix it, and stay in the work. You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be relentless and honest.
That is what real support BLM looks like, day after day. This kind of support isn’t sterile or sanitized or cute.
It’s raw, deeply felt, complex—messy and miraculous in the same breath.
There will be moments of heartbreak and sweaty anger and shame, but also wild, ridiculous hope and joy when you see things change, even if only a little at a time.
Black Liberation and the Future We Deserve
Support BLM is about more than not wanting to see violence on the news.
It’s about wanting Black people to have space to celebrate, grieve, rest, and flourish—without fear, without picking up the extra burden of “educating the ignorant” every single day.
This is true liberation, and it will make the world better for all marginalized people, not just Black ones.
When you support BLM, you are pushing for a radical, loving world where power flows down and out, not just up and in.
If you’re with me, know that your commitment makes a difference.
Showing up isn’t always glamorous. Sometimes it’s passing the mic. Sometimes it’s standing between cops and protestors.
Sometimes it’s simply paying for someone’s groceries, or just making sure you vote in every local election for justice-minded candidates.
No action is too small when it’s built on truth.
I know some of you reading this might feel overwhelmed. Racism is everywhere. It’s in the water, the air, the damn algorithms that control our news feeds.
But support BLM means refusing to look away. If you’re cis, your privilege is a responsibility.
Support BLM means taking anti-racist action in your own messy, imperfect, complicated life. Bust apathy when it creeps in.
When you get called out, take it as a sign you’re in the fight, not as a reason to quit.
It’s not about guilt. It’s about guts.
About guts and radical love and never being silent, not even for a second, when Black people’s liberation is on the line.
The Power of Community
If you’ve ever wondered, am I really making a difference? The answer is: yes—if you’re consistent. Movements are a mosaic, not a solo act.
That’s why support BLM must be woven into your every relationship, your every vote, your every social post, your every dollar spent and earned.
When you feel tired, tap back into that collective energy. Link arms—even metaphorically—and let the fight multiply.
This is a marathon, and no one makes it to the finish alone.
If you’re looking for practical ways to build more into your daily life, check out my deeper dive on how I stay loud about racism and why BLM matters at the core.
Connecting with others grounds you through every bit of backlash and exhaustion.
How to Stay in the Work
If you ever need a reminder of why this matters, revisit the voices and stories of Black leaders, artists, mothers, children, radicals, and rebels. Read books by Black authors.
Listen to Black Man. Center Black queer/trans leadership. And keep moving money to the movement.
If you want to dig further into the practice of reparations and why it matters, see my post on what reparations really mean and how we can make it happen. Your money, time, and attention all matter.
Practice critical self-love and love for others—know your history, sit with discomfort, use your privilege, and turn every holiday dinner confrontation into a tiny act of liberation.
Let your supporting BLM shape not just your vote, but also your community, your job, your personal heroics.
Supporting BLM Means Changing Everything
When I say support BLM, I mean it’s not just something I “do” when politics go viral. It is my politics, it is my love language, it is my rage, it is my act of devotion to a world I know is possible.
Support BLM means becoming a person your ancestors would be proud of.
Refusing silence. Refusing mediocrity. Refusing to rest until Black liberation is actually reality—not just a trending topic.
When we dream with each other, fight with each other, stubbornly cling to hope with each other—that’s how possibility moves from theory to life lived and love practiced.
Support BLM is the heart of what it means to stand for justice in a country that taught us to settle for less.
If you haven’t started yet, now is always the right time. It’s never too late to step up, speak out, refuse to accept small, tired reform, and unapologetically support BLM—every day, everywhere, until the job is done.
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