Hi friends,

To kick off September, here are some key resources that we recommend as you navigate your own journey of addressing the systemic oppression that shows up in your daily life!

Before you dive into the selections, we’d love to hear from you on a quick question about an offering we’re working on pulling together.

I encourage you to forward this newsletter along to your network as a way to spark conversation and create more ripples of much needed change.
 

Recently, we started offering virtual small group discussions within organizations looking to create a constructive, shame-free space to start to talk about the dynamics of systemic oppression and how they are showing up both individually and collectively.

Let us know if you are interested in offering this at your organization

The sessions have been great and we’re now considering launching a public virtual discussion version for individuals who are interested in joining in conversation to learn more about and address systemic racism.

Is this something you’d be interested in participating in?

 

American Caste with Isabel Wilkerson

On Don Lemon’s podcast Silence is Not an Option, Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson talks about her new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” and why race is one part of a larger system that determines who is valued and who is dispensable in American society, how Nazi's used Jim Crow Laws and U.S. eugenic experts to create Nuremberg laws, MLK and Gandhi on racism in America, the immigrant experience of being forced to choose their racial caste coming to the U.S., the brown paper bag test, and more.
 

How This Community Fridge is Fighting Food Insecurity in NYC's East Harlem

A community fridge in East Harlem is not just fighting food insecurity and food deserts that disproportionally hits communities of color — it’s bringing the neighborhood together. Three chefs who live in the community launched the Barrio Fridge in June after they saw how the coronavirus pandemic was making fresh and healthy food even scarcer in their dense neighborhood. They have since seen how the simple initiative has brought people together.
 

Women are drowning in unpaid labor at home. Stop making them do it at work

This article by Minda Harts, Eve Rodsky and Sarah Lacy shines a light on the impact of Corporate America devaluing Diversity & Inclusion efforts and expecting unpaid labor from the women who are often assumed to take on these initiatives without compensation, allocation or support internally.

 

“I’m Not Racist, I have a Black Family Member”

In this article, author Melea VanOstrand talks about her experience with her adoptive white family members during the Black Lives Movement and the racial justice uprising in the wake of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor's murders. She also talks about the problem with saying "I don't see color".

We want to hear from you!

Where do you find yourself stuck? What question do you have that has yet to be answered? We’d love to hear from you so we can provide helpful resources to answer the questions you are wrestling with.

 

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