BIPOC-led resources for White People who want to begin to undo their racism

(a non-exhaustive personal list)

Further your education with in-person and online anti-racism programs

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner and intuitive healer. She is a fierce and compassionate teacher. Find her current offerings here. Her first book, Skill in Action, Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World is a must-have companion for any yoga teacher. She has since written several more books on collective healing which you can find through her site.

The Holistic Resistance team offers many different ways to connect that have transitioned well to online. Large group workshops, more intimate Deep Dives into connection and healing, Song Circles, Facilitator Training, Parenting Program, TransIntimate, Youth Mentorship, Disrupting our Whiteness and a 1-to-1 counseling program, done over the phone.

Together Louiza Doran and Trudi Lebrón (hosts of That’s Not How That Works Podcast) offer a variety of online anti-racism coaching programs for white and white-passing people to help corporations, organizations, individuals and schools with Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Susanna Barkataki works together with people to honor yoga and create a fully inclusive and diverse yoga community. She created the Honor {Don’t Appropriate} Yoga summit as well as the online course Honor Yoga’s Roots. She also conducts Yoga Teacher Trainings at her home studio, Ignite Yoga & Wellness Institute and has authored the book, Embrace Yoga’s Roots.

Catrice M. Jackson is an educator, speaker and author who gives the gift of“straight up no chaser anti-racism education”. She offers many programs, both online and in-person (with covid protocol) that disrupt the disease of racism that lives within all of us.

Call for Reparations-Support, Nourish, Pay Black and Indigenous women and trans* folks

The Native Sharing Garden is working to keep land in Indigenous hands. Land back. Support this local effort here.

Holistic Resistance’s Grief to Action Camp It is clear that there is a significant amount of grief and rage that is being released by African Heritage people and people of oppressed identities. The Grief to Action Camp is a semi-mobile camp where African Heritage and other identified POC (People of Color) can come shelter in place and grieve with support. After these strong emotions are released, folks can notice the wisdom that comes out of grief and out of rage, especially while being held and supported by African Heritage people and other allies.This is a large-scale, long term project.

The Embodiment Institute (TEI) is a training institute, research entity, and culture change engine that strategically develops people and organizations to be agents of transformation in families, social movements and the environment.

 

Listen and Read

Books I keep coming back to - Fiction and NF

emergent strategy by adrienne maree brown

The Broken Earth Series by NK Jemisin

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

all about love by bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Skill in Action by Michelle C. Johnson

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Radical Dharma by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Dr. Jasmine Syedullah and Lama Rod Owens

See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur

In the Fullness of Time by Neghar Fonooni

Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.

Everything written by Akwaeke Emezi



Fave Podcasts

How to Survive the End of the World Podcast
”Learning from the apocolypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity” with sisters Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown

Finding Our Way
Finding Our Way is conversation between Prentis (Hemphill) and activists, artists and leaders to discuss how to realize the world we want through our own healing and transformation.

Octavia’s Parables
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown lead a chapter by chapter poetic unpacking of the world of Octavia Butler in her Parables books and beyond.

All My Relations
Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another.

Code Switch
Gene Demby reports on race and identity, remixed.

Individual Podcasts

Why Meditation is Not Enough: Rev angel Kyodo williams on CTZN