Black Storytelling Week

Happy Thanksgiving y’all! Hope however you spend the day, you enjoy it 🤎

POV: it’s Thanksgiving and you’re interviewing an elder

11. What’s a hope you have for the future?

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POV: Thanksgiving is tomorrow and you're interviewing an elder

10. What were you like at my age? Where did you work? What did you do for fun? Who was important in your life then? What did you learn?

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POV: Thanksgiving is Thursday and you’re interviewing an elder

9. What’s a characteristic or value in our family that you’re proud of? Who/where did it come from?

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So quickly. I hope you can spend time with the ones still with you 🤎

I’m running out of elders. It happens all too quickly.

Don’t let the opportunity pass you by!

POV: Thanksgiving is this week and you want to interview an elder. You might ask this question:

8. What's something you're really good at? How did you realize you were good at it?

As a follow up: Were any adults in your life good at the same thing?

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POV: You want to interview an elder this Thanksgiving, and you start with this question:

7. When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up?

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Morning #blacksky

We’ve claimed the 2nd week of September to celebrate, pass down, and document Black family history.

Whether biological, adopted, or chosen: family is family 🫶🏾

Follow for updates and ideas for how to interview elders in your life anytime of the year 🤎🖤

We’re a holiday for those of us who identify as Black, African, Afro-anything.

and the ones who raise, love on, nurture, and care for us. Simple as that. Whether you are adopted, or your family is biological, or chosen, this holiday honors and celebrates the many ways we make family 🤎🖤

When it’s relatives who’ve passed, I find it comforting. In my dreams, sometimes I’m back at my grandparents’ house down South and everybody’s there. (And those still alive but unwell are in full health.) Makes me feel like wherever these relatives are now, they’re OK and are thinking of me.

I’m sorry 😔 and can relate / empathize. Love that you habit of asking your parents. You could also ask them and aunts/uncles/older cousins about your elders as well. Oftentimes people will have different memories or perceptions that can help you build a more robust picture 🤎

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POV: You want to interview an elder this thanksgiving, and you ask them this question:

6. What did you used to get in trouble for as a kid?

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New followers: we’re a Black holiday for Black families (adopted, bio, and chosen). Do what you do, but know that’s who we’re building for, and we’re quick to block nonsense 🤎🖤

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What questions do you have for an elder in your life? Thanksgiving is the perfect time to ask them.

Here's one to get you started:

5. What were common phrases or sayings you heard growing up?

Thanksgiving is a week away, who's ready?!

It's a great time for interviewing elders. Here's a question to get started

4. What was your favorite meal or dessert growing up? Who made it for you?

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Since we’re here: I love that the diaspora is celebrating Carnival world-wide, don’t let social media & pretty mas erase real elements of REBELLION in our history & culture. My favorite are the Jabs. In TnT blue/red devil. They are the most vulgar on purpose. The enslavers were terrified #islandsky

We live in a country where learning our actual history is a political fight. We are not okay.

With Thanksgiving coming up, it's a perfect time for interviewing your elders! Here's a question to help you get started.

3. Who did you look up to when you were a kid? What did you admire about them?

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Lol I asked my grandma this and I learned that she and her bff used to throw spit balls at my pop pop in study hall! He had just moved to Selma “from the country” and they thought he dressed funny 😫😭 he still scooped her

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Thanksgiving is next week, a perfect time for interviewing elders. Here’s a question to help you get started.

2. Who was your best friend as a kid? What did y’all like to do together?

That’s incredible, thanks for sharing 🤎

Are there any archivists, genealogists, family historians or memory workers in #blacksky or #blackademics?

did anybody else’s greats & grands have that one gold tooth? bc ngl that shit was fly as fuck to me growing up 😭

Thanksgiving is next week, a perfect time for interviewing elders. Each day between now and then we’ll share a question to help you get started.

1. Tell me about your hometown. What did it look, sound, and smell like?

What questions do you have for the Black elders in your life?