Gloria Atanmo educates and inspires allyship and promotes Black voices on her Instagram community.
I hit a low after Ahmaud Arbery’s brutal murder. Everything was triggering to me. I uninstalled social media for 6 weeks to heal and sit in silence with my pain. That time allowed me to process, pray, and ultimately channel my anger into something productive. As a creative, sharing my art is cathartic, and I knew I needed to step up and be a voice for the exhausted Black community.
I’m highly observant and I often see the world through an idealistic lens, which allows me to be a light-worker of sorts, because I can see the potential for those who are changing, rather than sit with the reality of those who aren’t.The initial series was called, “What do I text my Black friends?” and that was inspired by the text messages me and many other Black people were getting from our well-meaning white friends who didn’t realize how their words triggered us even more.
The thing with “white guilt” is that it often puts more responsibility on your lap to hold space for their sorrow, while you’re also grieving, and you’re unsure of whether you should tell them how depressed you actually are. In the beginning, the questions were to help white people navigate the emotions of their Black friends and colleagues, and then I whipped out a notebook and put myself in a white person’s mind and started mind-mapping all the questions I’d have if I weren’t Black.
I really had to start unpacking the layers of not just my identity, but Black people as a whole, because we’re so dynamic.I get thousands of DMs a day now, and I’ll open 10 or so, and I’ll see follow-up questions there too that inspire another series. The content is endless, and I currently have three 8x10 pages full of bullet points for upcoming series; so basically enough ideas to last me until November.
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