Resources
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by the resources below, and many more.
Books
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies Resmaa Menakem
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
Sister Outsider Audre Lorde
Emergent Strategy adrienne maree brown
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
Kazu HagaFumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
How We Show up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community Mia Birdsong
Love & Rage Lama Rod Owens
Radical Dharma Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens & Jasmine Syedullah, PhD
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
Carla Bergman and Nick MontgomeryBeyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Until We Reckon:Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair Danielle Sered
The Next American Revolution Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige
White Fragility Robin DiAngelo
The Politics of Trauma Staci K. Haines
Colorizing Restorative Justice Voicing Our Realities Edited by Edward C. Valandra, Waŋbli Wapȟáha Hokšíla
Sacred Instructions Sherri Mitchell
Articles
Organizational Transformation Without Equity and Allyship is Meaningless Lupe Poblano
Reckoning with Violence Michelle Alexander
Nothing to add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions Robin DiAngelo
Let’s Be Real: Mainstream LGBTQIA Organizations Aren’t Showing up for QTPOC
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Dr. Joy Degruy
What Well Meaning White People Need to Know About Race Bryan Stevenson
Signifying Blackness and the Future of Humanity Cyndi Suarez
How to Give an Apology Part I Mia Mingus
How to Give an Apology Part II Mia Mingus
On Collaboration: Starting with Each Other Mia Mingus
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House Audre Lorde
White Danger: Double-Mindedness, Violence, and the Confusion of Whiteness Autumn Brown
Report: Recommendations From Us Right Now From A Future adrienne maree brown
What is/isn’t transformative justice adrienne maree brown
The Transformative Power of Practice Staci K. Haines and Ng’ethe Maina
A word for white people, in two parts adrienne maree brown
Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People Kelsey Blackwell
Organizations
Podcasts
#metoo & Transformative Justice How to Survive the End of the World
Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to be an Antiracist Unlocking Us
On Somatics and Social Justice with Staci K. Haines CIIS Public Programs Podcast
Visioning with Adrienne Maree Brown Finding Our Way with Prentis Hemphill
Shame and Accountability Unlocking Us
Unpacking Boundaries and the Emotional Intelligence of the Body Lama Rod Owens
Somatics and Politics with Sumitra Rajkumar Irresistible
Why Your Liberation is Bound Up with Mine with Rev. angel Kyodo Williams Medication In the City
Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence with Resmaa Menakem On Being
Karena Montag and Claire Whitmer: Racial Justice and Collective Liberation Voices of Esalen
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm with Kazu Haga and Carlos Saavedra Irresistible
Homebound: Embodying the Revolution with Brontë Velez For The Wild