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recommendation
for help with developing institutional self-awareness, we recommend a CURRENT-STATE POWER ANALYSIS, conducted often in tandem by melvin bray and a colleague like sterling freeman. this deep dive into the ways power moves, is abused, or is abdicated throughout an ecosystem to produce persistently inequitable outcomes allows an organization to pinpoint the interventions necessary to rewrite patterns and reshape impact. analyses include examinations of people and resources, rules and stories, practices and results, options and opportunities. contact us for pricing.
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resources
there are plenty of movement organizations doing work that helps to promote an expanding self-awareness for both the historically privileged and the historically marginalized. the following are a few of the ones doing most excellent work:
showing up for racial justice – an organization that helps white people find their place in racial justice
BYP100 – an organization dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all black people
black women’s blueprint – an organization committed to progressive research, historical documentation, policy advocacy and organizing that builds movements where gender matters in broader social justice organizing
syllabus
“violence against women–it’s a men’s issue” – TED talk by jackson katz
“charlottesville and the effort to downplay racism in america” – tia tolentino
Democracy in Black – an incisive diagnoses and prescription for the “value gap,” which assigns more value to white people in every facet of american life at every point in american history and is baked into the way we actually “disremember” our american story; here also is a talk by the author, eddie glaude, under the same title
“assigned whiteness at birth,” part 1 & part 2 + the comments – a brilliant multi-installment instagram series (two at the time of this posting) by body empowerment activist and educator sonya renee taylor that compares the challenge of overcoming the detrimental culture of whiteness to the challenge of moving beyond a binary notion of gender; the analogy lends incredibly useful insight
other resources
syllabus for white people to educate themselves
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