I said this in the latest episode of the Taiiku Podcast’s post, and retweeting things from the Manga In Your Ears Twitter account, but Black Lives Matter. Please donate to organizations if you can, and keep tweeting, call your legislature, protest, and vote. And through it all, stay safe; there’s still a pandemic on. This […]
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