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.
Health and Safety Resources:
- Ethel’s Club
- Therapy Resources for People of Color (Google Spreadsheet)
- Black Mental Health Resources (Twitter Thread)
- HealHaus: Receive unlimited monthly or daily access to both online yoga and meditation classes with HH practitioners for just $20/month with CODE: Pratt2020 or $10/class drops ins.
- How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid (Wired)
- Liberate App: A meditation app for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color which has free and reduced options.
- Pod Mapping Resource (Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective)
- Psychology Today: To find therapists of your same race/ethnicity
- Supporting Black LGBTQ Youth Mental Health (Trevor Project)
- Therapy for Black Girls
- Therapy for Black Men
- What do to if you’re exposed to tear gas (PopSci)
- 12 Ways You Can Be an Activist Without Going to a Protest
- Crisis Text Line | Text HOME To 741741 free, 24/7 Crisis Counseling
- Tips for Self-Care: When Police Brutality Has You Questioning Humanity and Social Media Is Enough
- Emotionally Restorative Self Care: People of Color – Black People – African Americans
- Building your resilience
- How to Be an Anti-Racist Ally
- 101 ways to take care of yourself when the world feels overwhelming.
- Tips to Support Individual and Community Healing
- 4 Self-Care Tips After the Pulse Tragedy
Document: Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
Community Organizations
- ○ Black, Disabled and Proud: A website for Black disabled college students
- ○ Black Futures Lab
- ○ Black-Owned Brooklyn
- ○ Black Lives Matter (National Organization)
- ○ Center for Non-Violent Communication
- ○ Communities United for Police Reform
- ○ Justice Committee: Cop Watch
- ○ Made in NYC (Website / Instagram): Currently calling on local manufactures to donate personal protective equipment (PPE) to people who wish to exercise their right to peacefully and safely demonstrate.
- ○ Movement 4 Black Lives
- ○ Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) NYC
Resource Lists:
- ○ Anti-Racist Resources (Google Doc)
- ○ Anti-Racist Resource Guide – Definitions (Google Doc)
- ○ National Resources List (Google Doc)
- ○ Organizing Resource Guide (Google Doc)
- ○ Resources from Adrianne Keene’s Critical Race Theory graduate course at Brown University
- ○ Street Mobilization Guide – NYC (Google Doc)
- ○ Support Black Business (Google Doc)
Articles to read:
- Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex (Indigenous Action)
- An Antiracist Reading List (New York Times)
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (E-book)
- Blackout Tuesday sees Instagram users not posting in solidarity with Black Lives Matter (ITV)
- The Case for Reparations (GQ)
- Check-in on Your Black Employees, Now (New York Times)
- DeRay Mckesson on the 8 Reforms That Could Dramatically Reduce Police Violence (GQ)
- The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (Free E-book)
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (JSTOR)
- Greater Good Magazine
- Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus (JSTOR)
- Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot (Medium)
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad (Book)
- The Story Behind the Photograph of Protesters Outside of Trump Tower That Resonated Around the World (Time)
- Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Book)
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not (Refinery 29)
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- Racism’s Psychological Toll
- Psychological Impact of Traumatic News: Coping While Black: A Season Of Traumatic News Takes A Psychological Toll
- Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans: The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans
More anti-racism resources to check out:
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Anti-Racism Project
- Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
- Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
- Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
- Save the Tear1. Altman (2000). Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10(4):589-605. https://bit.ly/2UfsSHn
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
- 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:
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- 13th (Netflix and free on YouTube)
- Code Switch Podcast (NPR)
- Make America Safe Again Directed by Caran Hartsfieldaran (Instagram)
- “When did my baby become a threat to you?” (YouTube)
- Seeing White Podcast
- Spike Lee Releases ‘3 Brothers’ Short Linking George Floyd, Eric Garner and ‘Do the Right Thing’s’ Radio Raheem (Variety)
- Teaching While White Podcast
Podcasts to subscribe to:
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Nine podcasts that don’t whitewash race
- Seeing White
Books to read:
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander - The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by CherrÃe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
- Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
- “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
- Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials”
- Article: Decolonizing Mental Health by Karina Zapata Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system
- Book: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks: Fanon, Frantz, Philcox, Richard: 9780802143006
- Post: Embodied Antiracism: A brief somatic guide for white people (let me know if this is not accessible and I would happy to save as PDF’s to send) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3VFI0jpy6/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
- Book: The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha : The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics): Bhabha, Homi K.: 9780415336390
- Book: African Experiences of Cinema (related to BIPOC representation in film) African Experiences of Cinema (9780851705118): Cham, Mbye B., Bakari, Ishaq Imruh: Books
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:
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Community Actions:
- Call the Louisville Districts Attorney’s office
- Call the Louisville Office of the Mayor
- Consider organizing with your local community to divest from local police departments like the students at the University of Missouri
- Donate to Bail Out Funds by state
- Donate to the George Floyd fund
- Donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund
- Donate to the National Bail Out
- Donate to the National Directory of Bail Funds
- Follow and support the Black Visions Collective
- Letters for Black Lives: Includes translations in multiple languages to initiate conversations with non-English speaking family and friends
- Minneapolis Attorneys Office
- Petition to Repeal 50A (New York State)
- I will Make Four Calls to #Repeal50-a
- Sign a Petition BYP100
- #WeAreDoneDying, an initiative by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Hey White Therapists, Here’s Where we Start
- Advice for White Folks in the Wake of the Police Murder of a Black Person
- Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston
- 12 Ways to Be a White Ally to Black People
General Advice:
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:
Books:
- RESilience Books
- https://www.apa.org/pubs/magination/441B228?fbclid=IwAR2E60Kr3o6fJNOrJ-TUpSWWDFUJZ28-nVGtxx6Y42_Ak_xIaLpcouen-kw
- APA Resilience Program Uplifting Youth Through Healthy Communication About Race: https://www.apa.org/res/
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
Podcasts:
- Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
- Fare of the Free Child podcast
Articles:
- PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
- The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon
- Your Age-by-Age Guide to Talking About Race
- https://bit.ly/2Y9wufp
- APA List of Books About Race and Ethnicity
- APA Resilience Program Uplifting Youth Through Healthy Communication About Race
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