recommended resources
People often ask me who I have/am learning from. You can find many of them throughout this page... additionally near the bottom of the page I have added some additional resources that either myself or other trusted folks have vetted.
ANTI-OPPRESSION
Study Group Guide for Abolition
Characteristics of white supremacy
Summary of Stages of Racial Identity Development
Resources for Decolonizing Community Singing Spaces
ANCESTOR WORK
White Antiracists Have Ancestors
Ancestral Medicine Practitioners
SOMATICS
ORGS/MOVEMENTS
GRIEF RESOURCES
Article by Elder Sobonfu Somé Embracing Grief
Answering the Healers Call by Malidoma Somé
Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel
Five Gates by Francis Weller
The Sky is Everywhere (film)
ADDITIONAL RECS
Going with Grace - Death Doula Training - Los Angeles
Motherwort & Rose Threshold Support - AZ
Zahava Griss - The Bay
Embodied Consent - Seattle
Sacred Womb Services - Seattle
The Pleasure Guide - Seattle
FILMS
Just Mercy
White Right: Meeting with the Enemy
13th
Whale Rider
Music Video: Make it Through - Rebel Wise
BOOKS
The Five Gates of Grief - Francis Weller
My Grandmothers Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts - Resmaa Menakem
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone - Leticia Nieto
Our Lady of the Dark Country - Sylvia Linsteadt
All About Love - Bell Hooks
The Politics of Trauma - Staci Haines
Our History is the Future - Nick Estes
Soulcraft - Bill Plotkin
PODCASTS
Finding Our Way - Prentis Hemphill
The Book on Fire Podcast - for the rootless and uprooted
This is Uncomfortable - episode "No More Money, Please"
Bliss is Ordinary - Yam Sweets & Jessi Rado
MUSIC PLAYLISTS
where Cascada meets Sol: a mixtape 2021