We are offering a range of resources for you to consider.
Some of you may have seen this presentation already where we speak of what informs our working with embodied racialised trauma, whiteness and racism.
And this dialogue between CeCe and Niall as an illustration of the challenges of talking about race, racism, embodied racialised, trauma, whiteness:
Email exchange: Can You Meet Me Where We Are Instead of Where You Want to be?
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We have been invited to spend a day with you exploring ‘race fluency’, to assist the organisation in being more able to have the conversations that are necessary to become more race fluent, to become more knowing of whiteness, to become more skilful and present in the work with children and families relating to race, racism, whiteness and the realities of embodied racialised trauma.
Racism is many things. At the therapeutic level it assists us to reckon with it as trauma. To
“We are in trouble. But there are two ways to be in trouble. One of them is to know you’re in trouble. If you know you’re in trouble you may be able to figure out the road.
This country is in trouble. Everybody is in trouble — not only the people who apparently know they are in trouble, not only the people who know they are not white. The white people in this country … think they are white: because “white is a state of mind.” I’m quoting my friend Malcolm X … white is a moral choice… I can write if you can live. And you can live if I can write”.