Editor’s note: In the wake of the death of George Floyd, writer Mireille Cassandra Harper took to Twitter to share “10 Steps To Non-Optical Allyship”, a simple and elegant distillation of the principles outlined in key anti-racist works such as Me And White Supremacy by Layla Saad and How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. The thread has since gone viral, and deserves to be even more widely read. Harper has generously allowed British Vogue to reproduce it in full here – opting to donate her writer’s fee to the GoFundMe campaign for the daughter of Belly Mujinga, a railway worker who died from Covid-19 after being spat at by someone who claimed to be infected with the virus in Victoria station. (You can also sign a petition to demand justice for Mujinga’s family via Change.org.) While Harper’s original thread suggested donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, the organisation has now requested that people contribute to other nonprofits, such as the ones listed here, following a deluge of financial support.
