Happy Black History Month! Before we get into the blog, here are a few steps we’re taking to fight the systemic injustice that Black folks face every day. As always, we invite you to join us. Donate to We Wield the Hammer, providing metalsmith training to women of African descent in Oakland and Dakar. (Call to action courtesy Sonya Renee Taylor.) Follow Sonya Renee Taylor and The Body is Not an Apology on Instagram! And don’t just follow: click those links, watch those videos

Once upon a time (two years ago), we had a blog. It was delightful. It was poignant. It was ... a little exhausting to keep up with sometimes. And so we set it aside for a time. But we have decided to pick it up again with our favorite recurrent segment, SpotiFriday! We put together Spotify playlists on a theme, each of us picking a handful of songs and writing a little blurb about why we chose that song. To start things off, we are resharing a SpotiFriday from almost exactly