Three Mindfulness-Oriented BIPOC-run DEI training/consulting organizations
that I can personally recommend:
Mindful Anti-Racism Trainings
Antara
Red Lotus Consulting
also check out this (incomplete) list of
North American Buddhist teachers who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
and this list of over four hundred
Black-owned DEI Companies & Consultants currently accepting new clients
and
this list of powerful and important
anti-racism workshops and classes
social media
I curate my Instagram and Twitter to be two different types of spaces – the former is more healing the latter is more agitating – though of course there is overlap! Most of the people on one platform probably have a voice on the other – explore!
Black healers and teachers:
@adriennemareebrown
@chasinggarza
@embodiedheartmind
@hellokatejohnson
@iamrachelricketts
@ihartericka
@ladyspeechsankofa
@lamarodofficial
@laylafsaad
@leesareneehall
@melaninmvskoke
@nowhitesaviors
@prentishemphill
@resmaamenakem
@sebeneselassie
@soularbliss
@thenapministry
@thesonofbaldwin
@zenchangeangel
Indigenous healers and teachers:
@1492landbacklane
@autumn.peltier
@decolonizemyself
@indigenousaction
@indigenouspeoplesmovement
@lilnativeboy
@melaninmvskoke
@ndncollective
@redhornwoman
@seedingsovereignty
@theindigenousanarchist
@yubu_teachings
Asian healers and teachers:
@aarti_tejuja
@kaichengthom
@leahlakshmiwrites
@miamingus
@neuroqueerasian
Abolitionist accounts:
@AbolitionF_ists
@agitateorganize
@avitale
@C_Resistance
@CLOSErikers
@decolonize_this
@dereckapurnell
@incitenews
@Jawanza
@jaybeware
@Josmar_Trujillo
@Kassandra_Fred
@miamingus
@nonewjails_nyc
@prisonculture – the inimitable Mariame Kaba – do not screenshot!
@projectnia
@studyabolition
@survivepunish
@VOCALNewYork
Sonya Renee Taylor is no longer on social media due to the persistent catering of these platforms to racism, but she has a Patreon where you can benefit from her wisdom as well as donating to support her work.
reading, watching, listening
Necessary books:
My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
Me & White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad (note there are PDFs of this floating around – she has specifically asked people not to use or distribute these as it is not the up-to-date version and also represents theft of her labor)
The Body is Not an Apology, by Sonya Renee Taylor
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
And….
Subscribe to The Root
Read / listen to The 1619 Project
Sign up for Andre Henry’s newsletter
Watch “I Am Not Your Negro” on Netflix
Listen to Scene on Radio, season 2, “Seeing White”
Abolition now!
Black Joy
If you (non-Black people) see Blackness primarily as suffering and oppression, investigate these resources and change your perspective. Note: If this exploration makes you feel you’re lacking something, know that this well-being is available to you from your own insides and your own lineage. That’s part of our work: we must not appropriate and colonize other people’s joy, but find our own.