053. Who Are You Outside of White Supremacy Culture?

For The Worldbuilders

Who are we outside of white supremacy culture? Perhaps the simple answer is healers, holders, stewards. Perhaps the simple answer is the people that refuse, repair and restore. And perhaps we don’t have to go anywhere to learn these skills, perhaps the best teachers and stories are already embedded in our intuition and ancestry. Perhaps the stories they’re whispering invite us into a culture with more bearable and breathe-able characteristics where perfectionism becomes improvisation, individualism becomes collectivism and “right to comfort” becomes “right to transformation”.

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• “Creative life of refusal” is language borrowed from Alexis Pauline Gumb’s essay “The God of Everyday”
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• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (PDF) by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Referenced in podcast: Chapter 2 “Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain”, a subsection called “Adaptation or Disease” on page 38.
• “White Supremacy Culture” (PDF). From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001. Shared inside “Queering Wealth” workshop facilitated by Jezz Chung and Mengwen Cao!
• “These scalar experiments and mobile laboratories are speculative projects that envision new modalities of relation and offer blueprints for unanticipated existence.” — Saidiya Hartman, “Crawlspace Manifold” (February 12, 2023), published in “Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging” (October 3, 2023), pg.14
• Cover Art: Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Art Is . . . (Girl Pointing), 1983/2009. Chromogenic photograph in 40 parts, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm.) Edition of 8 + 1 AP. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.