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Anti-Racism Resources: When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Anti-Racism Resources: When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Anti-Racism Resources: When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression ~ Anonymous

The journey through life isn’t supposed to be easy; it’s supposed to be real ~ Lama Surya Das

When my dear friend, art therapist and the Director of Pratt’s Graduate Creative Arts Therapy Program shared this compiled resource with me, I asked her to please let me share. What a wealth of knowledge. One dive into these resources, and a heart may be helped, or perhaps a racist could be unborn. Feel free to share what you believe is missing from this resource in the comments below.

Anti-Racism Resources: When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression
Anti-Racism Resources: When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Health and Safety Resources:

Document: Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources 

 Community Organizations

Resource Lists:

Articles to read:

More anti-racism resources to check out:

Black Joy

  • BlackHistory (Instagram)
  • Catch Me If You Can (Instagram account of the first Black woman to travel to all 190 UN approved countries)
  • Hill House Vintage (Instagram page of a Black British woman and her life on her estate. Flowers, vintage dressing, architecture, cute dog. Just a happy space!)
  • Jessamyn Stanley
  • Instagram
  • The Underbelly (her yoga app)
  • R29 Unbothered (Refinery 29’s Black Culture section) Website or Instagram
  • UrbanThrowbacks (Instagram)
  • Follow the hashtags: #blackboyjoy #blackgirlmagic #blackgirljoy
  • Every hobby has a black following! Search the hashtag: #blackbirdwatching #blackbeer etc and follow it. Open your own communities.

Videos to watch:

Podcasts to subscribe to:

Books to read:

Films and TV series to watch:

  • 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
  • American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
  • Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
  • Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
  • Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
  • Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
  • I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
  • Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
  • King In The Wilderness  — HBO
  • See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
  • Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
  • The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
  • When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Organizations to follow on social media:

   Community Actions:

General Advice:

See Also

 International/Undocumented folks: Do not risk your status by going to a protest. You can still show support in other ways.

We are still under a pandemic. Please wear masks and social distance as much as you can.

Resources for white parents:

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