ADDRESSING WHITENESS

• Welcome to the Anti-Racism Movement – Here’s What You’ve Missed by Ijeoma Oluo***

• Seeing White by Scene On Radio Podcast***

• The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy by Yawo Brown**

• Racism Defined by Dismantling Racism Works***

• Whiteness is Disembodiment: Notes on White Cultural Loss by Bear Hebert***

• How Science and Genetics are Reshaping the Race Debate of the 21st Century by Vivien Chou***

• Holy shit, being an ally isn’t about me! by Real Talk: WOC & Allies***

• White Spaces Missing Faces by Catrice Jackson***

• What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? by Maisha Z. Johnson***

• The Most Dangerous Person in America is the White Woman by Danielle S

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Renni Eddo-Lodge

• Implicit Bias Tests (take the one on “Race” to start) by Harvard University

• The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to My White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Womxn by Rachel Ricketts***

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh***

• Expressive Writing Prompts to Use If You’ve Been Accused of White Fragility, Spiritual Bypass or White Privilege by Leesa Renee Hall

• Dear White People, Your “Dictionary Definition” of Racism is Wrong by Sebastian Whitaker

• This Racist Sh*t Won’t Change Until White People Put In Work by Rachel Ricketts

• The Culture of Whiteness by James Mulholland

• Doing Anti-Racism Work with Rachel Ricketts on RECLAIM Podcast

• Fuck Lena Dunham and the White Feminist Horse She Rode In On by Sherronda J. Brown and Lara Witt

NOTE: IF YOU’RE NEW TO ANTI-RACISM, I SUGGEST STARTING WITH THE STARRED (***) RESOURCES. BUT READ THEM ALL!

ADDRESSING ANTI-BLACKNESS

• Shades of Black series on The Guardian

• Anti-Blackness Resources for Teachers in Yes Magazine

• How non-Black folx can have conversations about anti-Blackness on Do Something

• Recognizing and Dismantling your Anti-blackness in Forbes

• What Anti-Blackness is and how it impacts Black people in Metro

• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

• Anti-Racist Book list in Time Magazine

RACISM + SPIRITUALITY / WELLNESS

• Unblocking White Supremacy and Fragility in the Wellness Industry by Maryam Ajayi

• Rachel Ricketts on Spiritual Bypassing & Why We Need To Quit It by Kelly Gonsalves***

• How to Decolonize Your Yoga Practice by Susanna Barkataki***

• Converting Hidden Spiritual Racism Into Sacred Activism: An Open Letter to Spiritual White Folks by Virginia Rosenberg***

• Beyond Appropriation: A Letter to my Fellow White Yoga Teachers by Bear Hebert***

• Little Brown Girls & the Whitewashing of Yoga by Crystal McCreary

• Stepping Into Spiritual Activism Talk by Rachel Ricketts on Insight Timer***

• Say goodbye to white women sisterhood by Angela E Morris***

• When Spiritual Bypassing Meets Racism Meets Gaslighting by Camille Williams***

• Yoga: How White People can Respect what was Never Theirs to Begin With by M. Butler and S. Price***

• Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From by Emily Atkin***

• Inclusive Spirituality with Sonali Fiske on Priestess Podcast by Julie Parker

• Why White Lady Sisterhood Needs to Evolve by Rachael Rice

• Cultural Appropriation with Susanna Barkataki on From The Heart Podcast by Yoga Girl

• 8 Signs Your Yoga Practice Is Culturally Appropriated – And Why It Matters by Maisha Z. Johnson and Nisha Ahuja

• Spiritual Activist Rachel Ricketts Challenges White Women to Rethink Wellness by Erin Bunch

• Rachel Ricketts on Creating Change Through Spiritual Activism by So You Think You’re Intuitive with Natalie Miles Podcast

NOTE: IF YOU’RE NEW TO ANTI-RACISM, I SUGGEST STARTING WITH THE STARRED (***) RESOURCES. BUT READ THEM ALL!

WHITE SUPREMACY & HETEROPATRIARCHY

• James Baldwin on Race in Esquire

• James Baldwin Discusses Racism | The Dick Cavett Show

• Black Leaders 1973 Discussion on YouTube

• Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference by Audre Lorde

• Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing by Andrea Smith

• Racism pervades the LGBTQIA+ community on NBC News

• Indya Moore on Marginalized Artists for Remezcla

• Disclosure on Netflix

• How Race & Gender Interact to Shape Inequality on Decolonize All the Things

•Patriarchy & Gender on Decolonize All the Things

• Erika Hart speaks up and out against medical racism in Yes Magazine

• Erika Hart on decolonizing sex, gender, and health care in Gal—Dem

• Decolonizing the Body Positive Movement by Erika Hart in Out

HEALING FOR BI&WOC

• The Nap Ministry by Tricia Hersey

• Healing from the Effects of Internalized Oppression*** article by University of Kansas

• Liberate Meditation App*** by and for POC

• Surviving Oppression; Healing Oppression*** article by Vanissar Tarakali

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower*** book by Brittany Cooper

• The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

• Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Marie Brown

• This is What Black Burnout Feels Like*** article by Tiana Clark

• The Becky Code book by Catrice Jackson

• Internalized Racism Inventory article by Cultural Bridges to Justice

• Vibrate Higher Daily** website by Lalah Dahlia

• Black Therapists Directory by Therapy for Black Girls

• Attune App (connects you with a therapist)

• Yoga for Grief + Sadness Video by Dionne Elizabeth

• Alex Elle on Instagram (affirmations + journaling)

• We Can’t Screw Ourselves Out of Racism article by Daniella Barreto

• Sacred Activism Calls with Sonali Fiske

• This Will Be My Undoing: Living At the Intersection of Black, Female and Feminist in (White) America book by Morgan Jerkins

• We Heal Too website by J. Chavae

• Dr. Crystal Jones

• Crystal McCreary yoga

• Online Yoga + Meditation with Sara Clark

• Nayyirah Waheed on Instagram

• Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome (Interview) with Joy DeGruy

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings book by Maya Angelou

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• Your Silence Will Not Protect You book by Audre Lord

• Black Girl in Om website by Lauren Ash and Deun Ivory

• Still Processing Podcast by Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris

• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness book by Austin Channing Brown

• Chani Nicholas Astrology

• Dr. Tiffany Lester, Medical Director at Parsley Health SF

• Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour by Iyanla Vanzant

• White Supremacy + Gaslighting video by Sonia Gupta

• Ev’Yan Whitney, Sexuality Doula

NOTE: START WITH THE STARRED (***) RESOURCES. BUT READ THEM ALL!

MULTI-RACIAL IDENTITIES

• The Struggle To Define My Identity: Growing Up Biracial by Jolene Brantle

• Multiracial Identity Development: Illuminating Influential Factors by the Family Institute at Northwestern University

• The Loving Generation web series on growing up bi-racial by Topic

• Understanding the Stressors and Types of Discrimination That Can Affect Multiracial Individuals by Astrea Greig

• Being Biracial: Figuring Out Where is Home by Maya Gittelman

• Meghan Markle and the problem with policing the identity of mixed-race people by Shanon Lee

• Why Mixed-Race Americans Will Not Save The Country by NPR

• Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience edited by Chandra Prasad

• When Half is Whole: Learning from the Stories of Multiethnic Asian American Identities by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

• The Hardest Part About Being Mixed Video by CBudd

HEALTH + PANDEMICS

• The pathology of American racism is making the pathology of the coronavirus worse by Stacy Patton

• The Racial Time Bomb in the Covid-19 Crisis by Charles M. Blow

• What the Racial Data Show: The pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest by Ibram X. Kendi

• Coronavirus is not the ‘great equalizer’ – race matters by Roberta K. Timothy

RACIAL JUSTICE FOR KIDS

• Racial Resources for Disrupting Racism in Young Children by The Conscious Kid

• How to Talk To Your Kids About Race: Book and Resources That Can Help by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

• How to talk to your children about racism on PBS

• Helping your children learn how to be anti-racist on NPR podcast

• Books to combat anti-Blackness for children in Smithsonian Mag

• Speak Up: Opening a Dialogue with Youth About Racism by USC Rossier School of Education

MORE GOOD STUFF

• ‘1619’ podcast by The New York Times***

• Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis

• Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

• Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication by meenadchi

• 7 Myths About Cultural Appropriation Debunked video by Franchesca Ramsey***

• Surviving Oppression; Healing Oppression by Vanissar Tarakali

• How to Survive Intersectional Feminist Spaces 101 by Saroful

• The Racial Wealth Gap: Addressing America’s Most Pressing Epidemic by Brian Thompson***

• The Case for Reparations by Te-Nahisi Coates***

• Detour-Spotting for White Anti-Racists by Jona Olsson***

• When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrice Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

• How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism by Joe Pinsker

• Canada’s Race Problem? It’s Even Worse Than America’s by Scott Gilmore

• Canadian Education is Steeped in Anti-Black Racism by Robyn Maynard

• Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard

• Canada’s Slavery’s Secret: The Whitewashing of 200 years of Enslavement by Kyle G.Brown

• Hoop earring criticized as cultural appropriation by Rachel Hosie

• Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are In A Life or Death Crisis by Linda Villarosa

• What is Settler Colonialsm by Global Social Theory

• I’m Not a Feminist (and there is no but) by Renee Martin

• 100 Ways to Support—Not Appropriate From—Native People by Simon Moya-Smith

NOTE: IF YOU’RE NEW TO ANTI-RACISM, I SUGGEST STARTING WITH THE STARRED (***) RESOURCES. BUT READ THEM ALL!

WORKSHOPS + EDUCATION