This episode is different. I don’t have a guest to talk with, it’s just me sharing my thoughts about racism. This episode is mostly for white folks or at least non-black people. Anyone is welcome to listen, but in this episode, I am a white woman speaking to other white people about racism. There are experts on the lived experience of being Black in the U.S. (pretty much all Black people living in the U.S.) and there are white people who specialize in talking to other white people about racism. I’m not either of these. I’m an imperfect white woman learning and growing along the messy path of becoming anti-racist and that’s exactly what I want to share with you in this episode.

“What we need to do is understand that internalized racism exists in each of us, it’s been cooked into the tissue of my being from the reality of living in a country BUILT on racism—and as a white woman, it’s my job to unpack what’s been put there while I may have been sleeping.”

Topics we cover include:

The killing of Black people

What my mom has to say about unpacking racism

My own racism

Being imperfect and messing up

What I did at a midwifery conference

Shame and fear around racism

Public commitments to doing more unlearning and relearning


Episode Resources:
Favorite Chart of Resources for Anti-Racism Work.
Want to buy your books from Black owned bookstores? Here’s a list.
Books mentioned:
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Movie: 
13th Streaming on Netflix
Course on race and the nervous system with Sabia Wade and Kimberly Johnson
A Lifetime in Quarantine 

Episode Credits:
Produced by Aleksa Mara
Edited by Veronica Gruba
Hosted & Created by Britta Bushnell, PHD

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