Activist Education
This is a reading and resources list to unpack privilege & racism, learn about social justice, rape culture, gender, intersectionality, patriarchy, microaggressions, biracial identity, shame, toxic masculinity and critiques on Law of Attraction.
This list compiles numerous articles, education, suggested books and resources.
Feel free to share a link to this page with your friends. Please appreciate the labour I’ve invested in compiling this extensive resource. If you do happen to copy/paste it for sharing on your blog or social media, please give me due credit for the time and effort I have spent researching, reading every article and post, watching every video and putting this list together. Thank you.
If you have any articles or podcasts to suggest, please Contact Me and include a link to the article/s or podcast. I will review and if appropriate, I will add to the list. Thank you.
Sharyn Holmes
Articles and Links
So you wanna be an intersectional feminist?
https://crossknit.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/so-you-wanna-be-an-intersectional-feminist/
Explaining white privilege to a broke, white person
http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person
So you know a thing: feministing 201
https://crossknit.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/so-you-think-you-know-a-thing-feministing-201/
Layla Saad’s website and series, I need to talk about spiritual white women about white supremacy
http://www.wildmysticwoman.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-1
http://www.wildmysticwoman.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-2
The role of sacred violence during sunset of white supremacist kyriarchy
https://medium.com/@alxpmorgan/on-the-role-of-sacred-violence-during-the-sunset-of-white-supremacist-kyriarchy-a8fa56dd622a
Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Doctrine of Privilege
https://www.patreon.com/posts/doctrine-of-14980085
I’ll start by recognising my white privilege
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ill-start-2018-by-recognizing-my-white-privilege/article37472875/
Are you a lightworker contributing to racism?
http://lisafabrega.com/are-you-a-lightworker-contributing-to-racism-read-and-find-out/
On Fragility
https://medium.com/@stacijshelton/on-fragility-22f8e2cb22cc
Expressive Writing Prompts if you’ve been accused of white fragility, spiritual bypass or white privilege
http://leesareneehall.com/expressivewriting-prompts-to-use-if-youve-been-accused-of-whitefragility-spiritualbypass-or-whiteprivilege/#sthash.lScvX20i.DYGHQyDm.dpbs
Decolonise your truth, 3 tools for clarity in a world distorted by gaslight
https://www.dialoguelab.org/blog/2017/10/14/decolonize-your-truth-3-tools-for-clarity-in-a-world-distorted-bygaslight
Ice Cube and Symone Sanders on white privilege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnwiYdFaRfk
Syllabus for trans understanding
http://bluestockingsmag.com/2014/06/06/sister-cis-ter-a-siblings-syllabus-for-trans-understanding/
When we talk about cultural appropriation, we’re missing the point
https://theestablishment.co/when-we-talk-about-cultural-appropriation-were-missing-the-point-abe853ff3376
Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle can’t tell me shit about white supremacy
https://www.theroot.com/bloombergs-megan-mcardle-can-t-tell-me-shit-about-white-1819816799
7 signs your allyship is performative
https://reclaimingmytime.blog/2017/08/15/7-unmistakable-signs-your-allyship-is-performative/
When spiritual bypassing meets racism meets gaslighting
https://camillewilliams.net/2017/10/17/when-spiritual-bypassing-meets-racism-meets-gaslighting/
Blackfulla Revolution
https://www.facebook.com/pg/ourcountryourchoice/posts/
Luvvie Ajayi
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10109075910993430&id=1906247&hc_location=ufi
Microaggression and racial battle fatigue
https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/microaggression-and-racial-battle-fatigue/
So you think you are a social justice activist
https://medium.com/@margostebbing/so-you-think-you-are-a-social-justice-activist-9f6049226b90
10 things you need to understand about the media and crime reporting
http://www.policeaccountability.org.au/commentary/10-things-you-need-to-understand-about-the-media-and-crime-reporting/
Racial Bias reporting research
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/racial-bias-reporting-research-trends
Racial Profiling
http://www.policeaccountability.org.au/issues-and-cases/racial-profiling/
White Privilege is saving Brianna Brochu from a felony charge
https://medium.com/@nilegirl/white-privilege-is-saving-brianna-brochu-from-a-felony-charge-and-thats-a-crime-d7130f943943
I was invited to give a TED talk and then asked to cut Black Lives Matter from it
https://medium.com/@mwendekatwiwa/i-was-invited-to-give-a-ted-talk-then-asked-to-cut-black-lives-matter-from-it-c37b73633a9d
Why should I be civil to white people who don’t care about people of color?
https://medium.com/@realtalkwocandallies/why-should-i-be-civil-to-white-people-who-dont-care-about-people-of-color-22c7fd059d8d
Let’s retire white tears
https://medium.com/@feliciafulks/happy-new-year-white-people-lets-retire-white-tears-in-2018-1f09987e6fdd
Dear white people, stop making racism all about you
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/dear-white-people-stop-making-racism-all-about-you-20170921
#metoo founder and Civil Rights Activist Tarana Burke, Girls for Gender Equity
http://www.ggenyc.org/
Rose McGowan gets a docuseries based on her activism
https://medium.com/@feliciafulks/rose-mcgowan-gets-a-docuseries-based-on-her-activism-d26e3070ec03
Denying racism and other forms of gaslighting
https://mental-health-matters.com/denying-racism-and-other-forms-of-gaslighting/amp/
How people whitesplain racism
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/how-people-whitesplain-racism/
Racism Scale
https://racismscale.weebly.com/
Of course you can see color
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/of-course-you-see-color-stop-being-ridiculous
TEDtalk How to overcome our biases
https://www.ted.com/talks/verna_myers_how_to_overcome_our_biases_walk_boldly_toward_them?u
A Conversation Series http://rachaelrice.com/confronting-whiteness/
Sacred Activism with Sonali Fiske
http://www.sonalifiske.com/free-resources.html
https://opineseason.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/practical-ways-we-can-stop-centering-everything-around-white-peoples-feelings/
4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/white-people-emotions-tears/
What Australian Media Forgot In The Diversity Debate
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a026438e4b0b422a3c5cd97
Facebook Bans ‘Imperfect’ Bodies From Your News Feed. WTF?!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-bans-real-women-from-your-news-feed-wtf_us_59ed1625e4b02c6e3c609c24
Does Feminism Only Help White Women?
https://youtu.be/28tim3xgUj8
The Ask of Masculinity. What Lewis Howes gets wrong.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-ask-of-masculinity-what-lewis-howes-gets-wrong_us_5a02fd5be4b0230facb84195
Leaving Social Justice Spaces
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/leaving-social-justice-spaces/
Courses, Books, Workbooks, Community and Consultancy
Raising an Advocate 101
https://mamademics.thinkific.com/bundles/teach-and-learn
Intersectional Feminism 101
https://mamademics.thinkific.com/courses/intersectional-feminism-101
Coaching As Activism Program
http://www.andrearanae.com/invitation/
Diversity is an Asset Workbook
https://gumroad.com/l/QCDoD
Desiree Adaway
Dear Sister (not just cister) Card Deck
A course for to white women to begin to dismantle the white supremacy they carry in their own bones.
http://www.abigailroseclarke.com/dismantle/
tame the dragon: a triggers workshop for white women who intend to do better
https://www.theunrulywoman.com/dragon
Gender Consultant
http://cameronairen.com/gender
Decolonizing Asianness Membership
http://www.manifestbydesign.com/decolonizing-asianness.html
Speaker, Author and Racial Justice Activist Catrice M. Jackson
Book for women of color: The Becky Code: How to deal with white woman violence while amplifying your joy
Book for white women: Antagonists, Activists and Allies: The Wake Up Call Book for White Women
http://shetalkswetalk.com/
Author Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
www.renieddolodge.co.uk./books
Books by women of colour to read in 2018
https://electricliterature.com/46-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2018-70a0bf5bf4f2
Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unspeakable-things-9781408824740/
Biracial Identity
Between the biracial rock and a hard place
https://medium.com/@margostebbing/between-the-bi-racial-rock-and-a-hard-place-def5610a003f
How far have we come in our acceptance of mixed race people?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-far-have-we-come-in-our-acceptance-of-mixed-race-people
Being Biracial
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/being-biracial/
Biracial Identity
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/11/8182263/biracial-identity
Raising Mixed Race
http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2015/12/09/raising-mixed-race-multiracial-children-book-sharon-h-chang-seattle/45255
7 ridiculous things you should not say to mixed race people
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/7-ridiculous-things-you-should-not-say-to-mixed-race-people/
Do white passing people of colour have white privilege?
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/do-white-passing-poc-have-white-privilege
6 things not to say to a mixed person
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EE5en61k-_Y&ebc=ANyPxKoIxPsBmovTSs2tSZs83PmzluwtyvI5vI6iD_emT22jlhdy_YJUJuWa6ZSx2dXOsD7RXVpgmk1HiEkrBecyftWrK3nKjw
The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black
Ijeoma Oluo Is Still Speaking Truth to Power
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/bitch-interview/ijeoma-oluo
Denial Maintains Supremacy
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/denial-maintains-supremacy/white-disbelief-and-trump-presidency
The Shitty Media Men List Excludes So Many
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/who-shitty-media-men-leaves-out
And the Cultural Appropriation Prize Goes to...White Writers
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/cultural-appropriation-prize
White People Must Invest In Anti-Racism
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/white-people-invest-in-anti-racism
Orientalism and Yellow Peril in “The Defenders”
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/yellow-peril-in-the-defenders
Mythbusting Manifesting, Law of Attraction, Abraham Hicks and The Secret
The staggering bullshit of The Secret
http://observer.com/2015/06/the-staggering-bullshit-of-the-secret/
Manifest Destiny
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
White ladies finding themselves sisterhoods
http://rachaelrice.com/2017/04/white-ladies-finding-themselves-sisterhoods/
Reasons I no longer trust Esther Hicks and Abraham
https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/ten-reasons-i-no-longer-trust-esther-hicks-and-abraham
Does The Secret victim blame?
http://terribletruth-beautifullie.blogspot.com.au/2009/06/yes-secret-does-blame-victim.html?m=1
Con Artist Spirituality Channeling "Abraham Hicks" Cult
http://mentalwakeup.com/con-artist-spirituality-channeling-abraham-hicks-cult-is-based-on-amway-pyramid-scheme
Dangers of Radical Self-Love
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/chloe-king/dangers-of-radical-selflove
Podcasts (coming soon)
This list compiles numerous articles, education, suggested books and resources.
Feel free to share a link to this page with your friends. Please appreciate the labour I’ve invested in compiling this extensive resource. If you do happen to copy/paste it for sharing on your blog or social media, please give me due credit for the time and effort I have spent researching, reading every article and post, watching every video and putting this list together. Thank you.
If you have any articles or podcasts to suggest, please Contact Me and include a link to the article/s or podcast. I will review and if appropriate, I will add to the list. Thank you.
Sharyn Holmes
Articles and Links
So you wanna be an intersectional feminist?
https://crossknit.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/so-you-wanna-be-an-intersectional-feminist/
Explaining white privilege to a broke, white person
http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person
So you know a thing: feministing 201
https://crossknit.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/so-you-think-you-know-a-thing-feministing-201/
Layla Saad’s website and series, I need to talk about spiritual white women about white supremacy
http://www.wildmysticwoman.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-1
http://www.wildmysticwoman.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-2
The role of sacred violence during sunset of white supremacist kyriarchy
https://medium.com/@alxpmorgan/on-the-role-of-sacred-violence-during-the-sunset-of-white-supremacist-kyriarchy-a8fa56dd622a
Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Doctrine of Privilege
https://www.patreon.com/posts/doctrine-of-14980085
I’ll start by recognising my white privilege
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ill-start-2018-by-recognizing-my-white-privilege/article37472875/
Are you a lightworker contributing to racism?
http://lisafabrega.com/are-you-a-lightworker-contributing-to-racism-read-and-find-out/
On Fragility
https://medium.com/@stacijshelton/on-fragility-22f8e2cb22cc
Expressive Writing Prompts if you’ve been accused of white fragility, spiritual bypass or white privilege
http://leesareneehall.com/expressivewriting-prompts-to-use-if-youve-been-accused-of-whitefragility-spiritualbypass-or-whiteprivilege/#sthash.lScvX20i.DYGHQyDm.dpbs
Decolonise your truth, 3 tools for clarity in a world distorted by gaslight
https://www.dialoguelab.org/blog/2017/10/14/decolonize-your-truth-3-tools-for-clarity-in-a-world-distorted-bygaslight
Ice Cube and Symone Sanders on white privilege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnwiYdFaRfk
Syllabus for trans understanding
http://bluestockingsmag.com/2014/06/06/sister-cis-ter-a-siblings-syllabus-for-trans-understanding/
When we talk about cultural appropriation, we’re missing the point
https://theestablishment.co/when-we-talk-about-cultural-appropriation-were-missing-the-point-abe853ff3376
Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle can’t tell me shit about white supremacy
https://www.theroot.com/bloombergs-megan-mcardle-can-t-tell-me-shit-about-white-1819816799
7 signs your allyship is performative
https://reclaimingmytime.blog/2017/08/15/7-unmistakable-signs-your-allyship-is-performative/
When spiritual bypassing meets racism meets gaslighting
https://camillewilliams.net/2017/10/17/when-spiritual-bypassing-meets-racism-meets-gaslighting/
Blackfulla Revolution
https://www.facebook.com/pg/ourcountryourchoice/posts/
Luvvie Ajayi
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10109075910993430&id=1906247&hc_location=ufi
Microaggression and racial battle fatigue
https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/microaggression-and-racial-battle-fatigue/
So you think you are a social justice activist
https://medium.com/@margostebbing/so-you-think-you-are-a-social-justice-activist-9f6049226b90
10 things you need to understand about the media and crime reporting
http://www.policeaccountability.org.au/commentary/10-things-you-need-to-understand-about-the-media-and-crime-reporting/
Racial Bias reporting research
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/racial-bias-reporting-research-trends
Racial Profiling
http://www.policeaccountability.org.au/issues-and-cases/racial-profiling/
White Privilege is saving Brianna Brochu from a felony charge
https://medium.com/@nilegirl/white-privilege-is-saving-brianna-brochu-from-a-felony-charge-and-thats-a-crime-d7130f943943
I was invited to give a TED talk and then asked to cut Black Lives Matter from it
https://medium.com/@mwendekatwiwa/i-was-invited-to-give-a-ted-talk-then-asked-to-cut-black-lives-matter-from-it-c37b73633a9d
Why should I be civil to white people who don’t care about people of color?
https://medium.com/@realtalkwocandallies/why-should-i-be-civil-to-white-people-who-dont-care-about-people-of-color-22c7fd059d8d
Let’s retire white tears
https://medium.com/@feliciafulks/happy-new-year-white-people-lets-retire-white-tears-in-2018-1f09987e6fdd
Dear white people, stop making racism all about you
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/dear-white-people-stop-making-racism-all-about-you-20170921
#metoo founder and Civil Rights Activist Tarana Burke, Girls for Gender Equity
http://www.ggenyc.org/
Rose McGowan gets a docuseries based on her activism
https://medium.com/@feliciafulks/rose-mcgowan-gets-a-docuseries-based-on-her-activism-d26e3070ec03
Denying racism and other forms of gaslighting
https://mental-health-matters.com/denying-racism-and-other-forms-of-gaslighting/amp/
How people whitesplain racism
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/how-people-whitesplain-racism/
Racism Scale
https://racismscale.weebly.com/
Of course you can see color
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/of-course-you-see-color-stop-being-ridiculous
TEDtalk How to overcome our biases
https://www.ted.com/talks/verna_myers_how_to_overcome_our_biases_walk_boldly_toward_them?u
A Conversation Series http://rachaelrice.com/confronting-whiteness/
Sacred Activism with Sonali Fiske
http://www.sonalifiske.com/free-resources.html
https://opineseason.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/practical-ways-we-can-stop-centering-everything-around-white-peoples-feelings/
4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/white-people-emotions-tears/
What Australian Media Forgot In The Diversity Debate
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a026438e4b0b422a3c5cd97
Facebook Bans ‘Imperfect’ Bodies From Your News Feed. WTF?!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-bans-real-women-from-your-news-feed-wtf_us_59ed1625e4b02c6e3c609c24
Does Feminism Only Help White Women?
https://youtu.be/28tim3xgUj8
The Ask of Masculinity. What Lewis Howes gets wrong.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-ask-of-masculinity-what-lewis-howes-gets-wrong_us_5a02fd5be4b0230facb84195
Leaving Social Justice Spaces
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/leaving-social-justice-spaces/
Courses, Books, Workbooks, Community and Consultancy
Raising an Advocate 101
https://mamademics.thinkific.com/bundles/teach-and-learn
Intersectional Feminism 101
https://mamademics.thinkific.com/courses/intersectional-feminism-101
Coaching As Activism Program
http://www.andrearanae.com/invitation/
Diversity is an Asset Workbook
https://gumroad.com/l/QCDoD
Desiree Adaway
Dear Sister (not just cister) Card Deck
A course for to white women to begin to dismantle the white supremacy they carry in their own bones.
http://www.abigailroseclarke.com/dismantle/
tame the dragon: a triggers workshop for white women who intend to do better
https://www.theunrulywoman.com/dragon
Gender Consultant
http://cameronairen.com/gender
Decolonizing Asianness Membership
http://www.manifestbydesign.com/decolonizing-asianness.html
Speaker, Author and Racial Justice Activist Catrice M. Jackson
Book for women of color: The Becky Code: How to deal with white woman violence while amplifying your joy
Book for white women: Antagonists, Activists and Allies: The Wake Up Call Book for White Women
http://shetalkswetalk.com/
Author Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
www.renieddolodge.co.uk./books
Books by women of colour to read in 2018
https://electricliterature.com/46-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2018-70a0bf5bf4f2
Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unspeakable-things-9781408824740/
Biracial Identity
Between the biracial rock and a hard place
https://medium.com/@margostebbing/between-the-bi-racial-rock-and-a-hard-place-def5610a003f
How far have we come in our acceptance of mixed race people?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-far-have-we-come-in-our-acceptance-of-mixed-race-people
Being Biracial
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/being-biracial/
Biracial Identity
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/11/8182263/biracial-identity
Raising Mixed Race
http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2015/12/09/raising-mixed-race-multiracial-children-book-sharon-h-chang-seattle/45255
7 ridiculous things you should not say to mixed race people
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/7-ridiculous-things-you-should-not-say-to-mixed-race-people/
Do white passing people of colour have white privilege?
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/do-white-passing-poc-have-white-privilege
6 things not to say to a mixed person
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EE5en61k-_Y&ebc=ANyPxKoIxPsBmovTSs2tSZs83PmzluwtyvI5vI6iD_emT22jlhdy_YJUJuWa6ZSx2dXOsD7RXVpgmk1HiEkrBecyftWrK3nKjw
The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black
Ijeoma Oluo Is Still Speaking Truth to Power
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/bitch-interview/ijeoma-oluo
Denial Maintains Supremacy
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/denial-maintains-supremacy/white-disbelief-and-trump-presidency
The Shitty Media Men List Excludes So Many
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/who-shitty-media-men-leaves-out
And the Cultural Appropriation Prize Goes to...White Writers
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/cultural-appropriation-prize
White People Must Invest In Anti-Racism
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/white-people-invest-in-anti-racism
Orientalism and Yellow Peril in “The Defenders”
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/yellow-peril-in-the-defenders
Mythbusting Manifesting, Law of Attraction, Abraham Hicks and The Secret
The staggering bullshit of The Secret
http://observer.com/2015/06/the-staggering-bullshit-of-the-secret/
Manifest Destiny
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
White ladies finding themselves sisterhoods
http://rachaelrice.com/2017/04/white-ladies-finding-themselves-sisterhoods/
Reasons I no longer trust Esther Hicks and Abraham
https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/ten-reasons-i-no-longer-trust-esther-hicks-and-abraham
Does The Secret victim blame?
http://terribletruth-beautifullie.blogspot.com.au/2009/06/yes-secret-does-blame-victim.html?m=1
Con Artist Spirituality Channeling "Abraham Hicks" Cult
http://mentalwakeup.com/con-artist-spirituality-channeling-abraham-hicks-cult-is-based-on-amway-pyramid-scheme
Dangers of Radical Self-Love
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/chloe-king/dangers-of-radical-selflove
Podcasts (coming soon)