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

Catrice M. Jackson offers many educational anti-racism courses for white-identified women. You can find her books here and Here

The Holistic Resistance team offer in person workshops called Reaching for Blackness, smaller group Deep Dives into connection and healing, Singing Circles and a 16-week 1-to-1 counseling program over the phone.

Leesa Renee Hall created her signature 21-day program, Unpack Biases Now using expressive writing prompts and self-inquiry to unpack your biases.

Rachel Cargle has an online and in-person lecture series called Unpacking White Feminism. You can purchase online or hire her to come and speak.

Together Louiza Doran and Trudi Lebrón offer a 7 or 12 week online anti-racism coaching program called Working Towards Woke. Individually, they both have private practices as coaches for life and to help corporations, organizations, individuals and schools with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Layla Saad created Me And White Supremacy - The Workbook.

Rachel Ricketts offers 2 webinars for White identifying people - Spiritual Activism 101 and 102 and an online 10-week grief support program for WoC.

Call for Reparations-Support, Nourish, Pay Black women

Catrice Jackson is creating and crowdfunding Harriet’s Dream, an in-person “healing sanctuary for black women to combat the daily barrage of racial trauma they experience and to help black women experience healing, happiness and harmony in their lives”. Amazon Wishlist for Racial Justice and Harriet’s Dream.

Rae and Nya Dean. Read their story and find action items here. Donate here.

Rachel Cargle has organized a Therapy Fund for Black Girls and Women which you can donate to here.

Please contact me privately for more information on making reparations for a friend of mine and her family (who prefers not to be shared publicly).

 

Listen and Read

Books

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Radical Dharma by Rev. angel Kyodo williams

White Spaces, Missing Faces by Catrice M. Jackson

White Rage by Carol Anderson

Skill in Action by Michelle C. Brown

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper

Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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

This Will be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Fave Podcasts

That’s Not How That Works
Trudi and Weeze, D&I coaches make magic together as they call you out and in in smart and humorous discussions around the coaching/personal growth world.

Call Your Girlfriend
BFF’s Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman do shine theory, talk race, intersectional feminism, pop culture and politics

Holistic Resistance
Aaron Johnson is an earth builder, teacher of closeness, and activist who interviews people on Blackness and connection.

Healing Justice
Kate Werning hosts this podcast of stories and practices at the intersection of collective healing and social change.

Code Switch
Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby report and converse on race and identity, remixed.

How to Survive The End of The World
The Brown sisters talk race, creativity, mysticism and how Octavia Butler's work can change the world.

Good Ancestor
Layla Saad has conversations with Change-Makers and Culture-Shapers.

Individual Podcasts

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

 

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