Hello {{ first name | friends}},

It's time for my annual roundup of the best of SARN. While I usually publish this at the end of the year in question, the fates intervened, which is why you're getting this now.

Before I get to the list, I had some interesting stats from beehiiv. According to them, I wrote 98.6k words in 115 posts and got 395.6k impressions. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thinking that's enough for a book, so I'd love to do the second collection of essays from SARN in the near future.

That's for another time, though, so let's get to the roundup:

Top Ten Articles of 2024

These are the articles you opened most in the last year.

  1. Revisiting Allyship

  2. What Happens If You Screw Up as an Ally?

  3. Help I'm White and My Children are Black - How Do I Support Them?

  4. Here We Go Again

  5. The Water Not the Shark

  6. Life After DEI

  7. REBOOT: Staying Alert to Racism

  8. Following My Ancestry

  9. Let's Talk About Anti-Blackness

  10. The Resistance of Rest

Top 5 Supporter Exclusives

SARN is a reader-supported publication, and there’s at least one supporter-only article each month. Here are the top 5 in 2024:

  1. What Does Equality Look Like For a Black Woman

  2. I hadn't planned to talk about BHM

  3. 4 Questions Black People Have to Ask

  4. I Don't Know If You Have Ever

  5. Being a Black, Autistic Teen Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence

Top 5 Podcasts

Supporters also get access to a private podcast, and these were the most popular episodes last year:

  1. Deciding Not to Engage

  2. Biased Tech - Here's Another Example

  3. Sometimes You Forget

  4. Invisibility is not Equality

  5. Maps Can Be Racist

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Top 5 Interviews

I love bringing writers, founders and activists to the fore. Here are the interviews you loved most: in 2024

  1. Naomi Raquel Enright

  2. Felicia Myers Scarpati-(Lomax)

  3. Shayla Sima Dube

  4. Jacquie Abram

  5. Dr Hayley Haywood

I love data, so I also turned to Google Analytics to find more popular content:

  1. Black Women, Stereotypes and Fetishes (I published this a while ago but people keep reading it).

  2. There Is Only Us by Naomi Raquel Enright (which was also the most popular essay in June)

  3. Racism Stories: Corporate Racism 101 by Mark T. Batiste

Beehiiv usually flags the most popular article each month. Some of those have already been mentioned here, but here are a few more:

  1. July - REBOOT: Is Blackness a Gated Community?

  2. September - Building Our Own Table - LaTonya Davis

  3. November - What Now?

Did you miss any of these? Which articles made most impression on YOU last year? I'd love to know!

You can catch up on previous annual roundups in last year's edition.

Thanks for being here,

Sharon

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I am an anti-racism educator and activist, the author of “I’m Tired of Racism”, and co-host of The Introvert Sisters podcast.

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