Inspiring opportunities to support Black and Indigenous self-determination
Reparations Summer! Support this land-based movement for Black liberation!
The Southern Power Fund! Support a collaboration of southern Black-led movement organizations to redistribute 10 million dollars to southern grassroots progressive organizing.
NDN Collective! Support this Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change.
Seeding Sovereignty! Support this Indigenous-led collective, working to shift social and environmental paradigms by dismantling colonial institutions and replacing them with Indigenous practices created in synchronicity with the land.
Books
Beyond Survival by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - We are all called to become more skilled at addressing violence and abuse in our communities without police and the criminal justice system. This book is a huge resource of writing from people who have been doing that for years. In this moment where it is more clear than ever that we must end of the culture of abuse including abuse from police and in the criminal justice system, this book is so necessary, I literally could not put it down.
Just Us by Claudia Rankine - This gorgeous genre-defying book explores poetically the many ways white supremacy permeates the words and actions of white people in the U.S. regardless of their/our intentions and how we might change in our conversations toward undoing the hold it has on all of us.
In The Wake by Christina Sharpe - This book is deep poetic witnessing of Black existence “in the wake” of slavery. It is a sacred act of care and love. Sharpe’s attention to the relentless violence on many levels toward Black bodies and the unfurling of its impact and exploration of the work of Black writers and artists reckoning with this helped me understand anti-Blackness on a more embodied level.
Videos
Learn about abolition with Critical Resistance!
This webinar by leaders in the movement for abolition taught me so much!
Patrisse Cullors-Brignac’s Daily Digest on IGTV
Keep yourself informed about International, National, and Local (in California) politics and take action with one of this country’s most impactful and visionary organizers, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and an artist.
Podcasts
How To Survive the End of the World podcast
Deepen your skills for caring for yourself and your community with the deep and wise Brown sisters (Autumn and adrienne maree) who are writers, organizers, healers, facilitators, and movement strategists as they interview the experts whose knowledge we need to survive apocalypse.
Lady Don’t Take No podcast
Learn from movement leader and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Alicia Garza and her community in this fun, real, and deep podcast with brilliant guests changing our world.