Trainings I’ve been a part of and recommend

  • Embodied Racial Justice Practices by the UW Health Mindfulness Program (Oct. 2021)
  • ARC Monona study circle (facilitated) (July 2021)
  • Building Racial Equity: Foundations by Race Forward (May 2021)
  • Bhagavad Gita Now: A Path of Social Justice with Anusha Wijeyakumar (February 2021)
  • Roots of Yoga: Decolonizing Your Yoga Practice with Anusha Wijeyakumar (Nov. 2020)
  • Practical Tools for Talking with Other Whites About Racism by Beth Berila (2020)
  • Cultural Somatics online course by Resmaa Menakem (2020)
  • Yoga Purpose and Action from Off the Mat Into the World (2020)
  • White Fragility book club (2020)
  • Black History for a New Day class by Justified Anger (2020)
  • Witnessing Whiteness (2019)
  • What does it Mean to Be White book clubs (2018 and 2019)
  • YWCA Racial Justice Summit (2017)
  • Institute for Healing Racism with Richard Davis (2016)

Books I’ve read and recommend

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World by Michelle Cassanda Johnson
  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
  • How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
  • My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
  • White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
  • What Does It Mean to Be White by Robin DiAngelo
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Racial Healing by Reginald Newkirk and Nathan Rutstein
  • Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
  • White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
  • Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk

Good articles

Podcasts

Films

  • 13th
  • Just Mercy
  • Harriet 
  • Selma
  • Race: The Power of an Illusion (PBS)
    • The Difference Between Us
    • The Story We Tell
    • The House We Live In
  • The Birth of a Nation (2015)
  • When They See Us

Books I want to read

  • Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Alexander, Michelle
  • One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Anderson, Carol
  • Consciousness in Action: The Power of Beauty, Love, and Courage in a Violent Time by Beath, Andrew
  • Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter by Bunyasi, Tehama Lopez
  • We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by DeGruy, Joy
  • White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Hagerman, Margaret A.
  • Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Harvey, Jennifer
  • The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege by Jensen, Robert
  • We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Love, Bettina L.
  • The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Magee, Rhonda
  • Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland by Metzl, Jonathan M.
  • Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Loew, Patty
  • Black Appetite. White Food.: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom by Lyiscott, Jamila
  • Mindful of Race Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by King, Ruth
  • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Payne, Keith
  • Settlin’: Stories of Madison’s Early African American Families by Simms, Muriel
  • Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Steele, Claude M.
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Stevenson, Bryan
  • Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World by Taranath, Anu
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Tatum, Beverly Daniel
  • Learning to Be White: Money, Race, and God in America by Thandeka
  • The End of Policing by Vitale, Alex S.

Films I want to see

  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Loving
  • Do the Right Thing
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • BlacKkKlansman
  • I am Not Your Negro