RACIAL JUSTICE RESOURCES
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornel West
“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound with mine, then let us work together.” - Lilla Watson
“When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” - Audre Lorde
Now is a time to connect about racial justice, grieving, feeling, and re-committing ourselves to dismantling racial oppression.
This resource page was created for listeners of the “This Is Not What I Ordered” chronic illness podcast and anyone else who wants support for taking action. It is intended to equip people of all backgrounds with resources and ideas for how to create positive change in the name of racial justice. And it was also created to support and help nourish our community members of color during this traumatic, exhausting time.
26 Ways To Be In The Struggle Beyond The Streets, an e-book by Anderson, Barrett, Dixon, Garrido, Kane, Nancherla, Narichania, Narasimhan, Rabiyah, and Richart
“Offer to be the emergency contact for people attending marches and rallies.” from 26 Ways To Be In The Struggle Beyond The Streets
Revolution Now, a YouTube video by Rachel Cargle
“Our revolution is one of liberation, community, value, of black joy, ease, and of black lives mattering.” - Rachel Cargle
“The call for revolution is not a call for switching places with whiteness or a desire to oppress or dominate. It has to do with staying alive and being able to have our human rights respected, able to exist in the world without fear.” - Rachel Cargle
Therapy For Black Girls, a podcast and therapist directory by Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
“Support making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women and girls.” - Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
Black Joy Isn’t Frivolous - It’s Necessary, an article by Patia Braithwaite
“...the Black joy movement sprouted alongside Black Lives Matter, celebrates the happiness, playfulness, and freedom that undergird social justice.” - Patia Braithwaite
The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Color Of Law, A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, an essay by Peggy McIntosh
“I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious.” - Peggy McIntosh
George Floyd and the Dominos of Racial Justice, a YouTube video by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
“We need people at the top to be the most accountable because they’re the ones that are setting the tone for everything we do in society.” - Trevor Noah
“One ray of sunshine for me in that moment was seeing how many people instantly condemned what they saw.” - Trevor Noah
1619, a Podcast from The New York Times
Momentum, a Race Forward Podcast
Our National Conversation About Conversations About Race
Intersectionality Matters Podcast
75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice, an article by Corinne Shutack
“Listen without ego and defensiveness to people of color. Truly listen.” - Corinne Shutack
Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives, a panel by Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
“...we need to have uncomfortable conversations. Necessary conversations. And sometimes people’s feelings might be hurt. But it’s necessary, because folks’ lives are on the line.” - Charlene Carruthers
“My self care changed a lot in learning from the disability justice collective. It shifted towards joy, towards slowing down a lot.” - Reina Gossett
13 Black Women In Wellness Share What Wellness and Self Care Mean To Them, an article by Leah Thomas
“Wellness isn’t whiteness. It’s for everyone.” - Leah Thomas
White Noise Collective, an organization and resource hub for white accountability
“How can we support each other to overcome our unconscious blocks in order to become more effective in our work?” - White Noise Collective
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work For Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
The Bias Cleanse, a web-based 7-day learning tool, a collaboration by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity + MTV
“Interested in working on your own biases? We’ve provided bias cleanses on race, gender, and anti-LGBTQ bias that will provide you with daily tasks to help you begin to change your associations.” - Look Different and MTV
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion, a TedTalk by Peggy McIntosh
“I believe everyone has a combination of experiences: both having more than we have earned, and less than we have earned. We all know both sides, and that’s a reason for compassion.” - Peggy McIntosh
“I was oppressive to work with, and my niceness didn’t cover my basic racial superiority assumption. Niceness has nothing to do with this whole matter of being oppressive to others.” - Peggy McIntosh