toxic whiteness

EVERYDAY FEMINISM presents
HEALING FROM TOXIC WHITENESS TO BETTER FIGHT FOR RACIAL JUSTICE

Do you know how to make a difference in the fight for racial justice?

Everyday, videos of police violence, snippets from Trump's speeches, and other blatant evidence of systemic racism spreads across the media and internet.

More and more white people are feeling the urge to do something about it – and that's great!

But many white folks don't know where to start and feel overwhelmed by the emotions that begin to arise - whether that's feeling frozen with guilt, powerless to make a difference, or defensive about the idea that racism is a factor.

This interactive online workshop was created to help white people work through those emotions.

You'll learn the underlying reasons why many white folks feel emotional resistance to addressing systemic racism - and get the tools to free yourself from toxic whiteness and develop an anti-racist white identity.

This FREE online workshop is on Thurs, 9/15, at:
September
15

    5 - 6:30 pm PST
    6 - 7:30 pm MST
    7 - 8:30 pm CST
    8 - 9:30 pm EST

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Even if you can't make it, register anyways!

 We'll send you the video recording so you can watch it at any time.

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In this interactive online workshop, you'll learn how to free yourself from toxic whiteness and develop an anti-racist white identity by learning:

    The four core pains that drive all of the outrage, denial, guilt, and fear preventing white people from taking action for racial justice – including and especially for yourself.
    A completely new way of looking at white supremacy – as something that has caused pain, suffering, and trauma across generations of white people in addition to people of color.
    A powerful mindfulness practice that will help you get in touch with that pain and suffering, and how to take care of and release it with compassion.
    How to transform your interactions with other white people by connecting your ability to work with your own pain with ability to work with other white people's resistance to taking action.
    About our upcoming 8-week program dedicated to helping you turn what you learn in this workshop into a daily practice through community-based group training and individual coaching.

Have questions about the program? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions below!
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Sandra Kim

SANDRA KIM, Lead Trainer and Founder of Everyday Feminism

Sandra Kim founded and leads Everyday Feminism, the largest online magazine helping millions of people to apply intersectional feminism to their real life. She's also been developing Compassionate Activism training programs to help people learn mindfulness-based healing practices to free themselves from the suffering caused by systemic oppression and to respond to everyday oppression with love and justice.
Dara Silverman

DARA SILVERMAN, Support Trainer and Racial Justice Organizer

Dara Silverman is a organizer, writer, and trainer who has been building movements for social justice for over 20 years. As the former National Coordinator of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Dara built out the biggest US national network of white people taking action for racial justice and raised over $500,000 for Black-led organizing. She currently offers consulting and training to organizations and leaders and is organizing to stop Trump and his followers.

DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS FREE LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP!
September
15

    5 - 6:30pm PST
    6 - 7:30 pm MST
    7 - 8:30 pm CST
    8 - 9:30pm EST

8
Days
8
Hours
13
Minutes
21
Seconds
CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW! >>
Frequently Asked Questions

    I can't make that time. Will the online workshop be recorded? Yes! It will be recorded. So register anyways and we will send you the video later.
    Is this a part of Compassionate Activism? This is a thematic workshop using the Compassionate Activism model to help in the specific context of white people healing from toxic whiteness. At the end of the workshop, we will also be offering a in-depth online Compassinate Activism program for white people who wish to dig deeper into this work.
    Is this only for white people? This workshop will be open to people of color, but the focus will be on white people's racial experience of whiteness. So it'll be primarily attended by white people.
    What do we mean by “toxic whiteness”? Similar to toxic masculinity, toxic whiteness is something created by white supremacy and not inherent to white people. Toxic whiteness comes from the history of how the white identity was created since people of European descent had been identifying with their home countries and not as 'white' prior to the creation of whiteness. In the early 19th century, wealthy northwestern European landowners who colonized the Americas created the social construct of whiteness to prevent poor Europeans (like the Irish and Italians) from joining with enslaved Africans and indigenous folks against them since they had much more in common with them than with the wealthy Europeans. Now as white people, they got to be in the same social group as the wealthy Europeans! But in return for access to what was once denied to them – like land, education, and jobs – poor Europeans had to disconnect from their cultural heritage and history of why they left oppressive Europe, and how they were exploited in the Americas by wealthy white people. It was a pretty raw deal that exploited poorer white people and manipulated them to act against their own well-being in exchange for white privilege (and it's still happening today!) That's why it's important for white people to free themselves from toxic whiteness by acknowledging and resisting white supremacy, while reconnecting with who their people were before they became beneficiaries of white privilege. These liberating steps provide the building blocks for creating a radical anti-racist white identity – the focus for a future Compassionate Activism program!
    Why is it centered on white people? It's not appropriate for white people to center their emotional struggles with racism in cross-racial spaces with people of color present. People of color are much more severely impacted, but all too often, white folks minimize and deny their pain and trauma. At the same time, white people can't avoid getting stuck in their emotional struggles around racism if they don't process the feelings. And doing healing work in community and not alone makes a big difference. So having a separate anti-racist healing space for white people, led by a person of color who can hold them accountable, is important for white supremacy to be dismantled.
    What about the healing that people of color need? People of color definitely deserve and need support with healing from the trauma of white supremacy! That's why our first two Compassionate Activism programs were designed to support marginalized people's healing and why we are just now beginning to offer programs to help privileged people stop perpetuating everyday oppression. We also intend to offer more programs specifically for people of color in the near future too.
    Why do white people need healing from racism? Ever notice how far some white people go to deny the existence of racism – even though the evidence is everywhere? This is an example of how white people are affected by white supremacy. They benefit from white privilege, but at the end of the day, facing the reality of it is emotionally difficult. It's this pain and grief that needs healing – so that white folks can process them instead of running away from them by denying the painful reality of racism around them. Of course, our first priority is still to get society to acknowledge the traumatic impact of white supremacy on people of color – and helping white people learn how to do this is part of that work
    Why is a person of color leading this? Isn't that just more of people of color doing taxing emotional labor for white people? True, it's not the responsibility of individual people of color to educate white people around white supremacy. And at the same time, it's important for white people to follow the guidance of socially conscious people of color. That way, they can appropriately engage in racial justice work without accidentally perpetuating white supremacy in the process. So how do we balance this tension at Everyday Feminism? By doing this work as an organization and not as individuals. We make sure the people of color involved have the deep emotional capacity and strong desire to do this work with white people – plus the institutional support to take care of themselves in any way that's needed.
    What's the impact of this program in the larger scheme of things? The work of this program wouldn't be complete if it was simply about taking care of white people's feelings – after all, centering white feelings to the exclusion of people of color's well-being is part of the problem! Ultimately, this will help white people take supportive action, tune into what people of color need from allies in racial justice work, and re-focus on the overall goal - restoring justice for people of color and creating a radically inclusive, equitable society for people of all races and identities.


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