Public Service Announcement

Dear Troublemakers,

For more than 10 years I’ve been a racial justice educator… and figuring out the healthiest ways for me to embody that mission. As I’ve been reflecting on this work, I find myself coming back to two ideas:

•Centering Black people in antiracism provides a better education for everyone.

•Our antiracism education can be a joyful experience.

I’ve done a lot of work to incorporate these ideas into my approach when giving a lecture, workshop, interview, etc but I want to do a better job of doing that here.

When I first started doing antiracism work, I centered the education, feelings and outcomes of white people. And I always left tired and unsure of whether or not anything meaningful had taken place after that outpouring of energy.

Over time I realized that I was far more interested in talking to Black people about our experience of racism and what to do about it, than trying to talk white people out of perpetuating racism. Then I realized, they were not mutually exclusive go…