Stephen Satterfield

Stephen Satterfield Instagram – #WHETSTONEVOLUME5 ⁣
⁣
To my birth I owe my parents, to my life I owe @whetstonemagazine. Apparently it gets no easier, but something about 🖐🏾 is particularly gratifying. ⁣
⁣
4 was an ecological and metaphorical conclusion, but with our 5th the emphasis is on the fact that we’re still here and building! Please believe, if you have Black indies in your industry, they’re making it better!! ⁣
⁣
In our corner of the world, we’ve published the voices of our generation like: @soulfirefarm @soleil_ho and @from_lagos. We’ve taken it further with our #pointoforiginpodcast, made in collaboration with @iheartradio. We’ve published incredible WOC illustrators like @alexbowman @samnakahira and @4ur3lia. My brother @mrdavidp secured our production dreams with #WildGrapes, but Whetstone is a practice in patience. Still awaiting payment. ⁣
⁣
Anyway, Ima say it again til it’s seared in: white editors and media companies contracting POCs is not diversity. It shouldn’t be noteworthy. It’s the bare minimum and more like an asset to their enterprise. POC and specifically #blackownership is THE power shift. The opposite of what we got is what we want. Please do us the courtesy of committing this distinction to memory, especially if in our industry and asked to speak on diversity. When you say @whetstonemagazine, please lead with a new sentence. We trust you know the industry of which you speak well enough to notice an anomaly when you see it. Gotta name it til it isn’t.⁣
⁣
The distinction is in the truth that I’ve sacrificed my life to make this work, and supporting Whetstone hasn’t just been for me, but Us, the countless we’re building with, and those we’ll never know. ⁣
⁣
None of it would be possible without my co-founder #MelissaShi, who has found her voice in this work in tremendous ways. So proud to be in this work w/ her, and live in the power of a Chinese woman and Black man working in solidarity to fuck shit up. New tables, new meals, new kitchen, new cribs. There is service is the heart perseverance. 💕 Thank you, Mel!! ⁣
⁣
And to @mccalmanco. The 1st thing everybody notices about @whetstonemagazine is how beautiful it is, they deserve the credit!⁣
⁣
Order now!!! | Posted on 22/Nov/2019 22:50:30