“I've already been so trained, my entire life, to shut-up-and-listen in white male dominated spaces; but I've been taught not to shut-up-and-listen at all in spaces that are not dominated by white men, and so there's a flipping that needs to happen in the healing...How do we move forward without taking up space? How do we connect to learn from each other, support each other, challenge each other? It requires us taking up space.” In this episode Abraham Lateiner – co-founder of Freedom Beyond! a network of small circles of primarily white people working to break free from the chains of white supremacy – talks with The Better Bozos about polarity, the dangers of "The Individual Purity Quest", and three essential and interdependent modes of organizing.
You can find Abraham's work at www.risksomething.org
Reference Links:
Shelly Tochluk's Living in the Tension: The Quest for a Spiritualized Racial Justice
Core Components of “Freedom Beyond” Circles