ONE STEP. ONE LOVE.
Dear Ones,
This is me sharing my messy personal journey on the road to racial justice, equity and unity. After becoming overwhelmed, I decided to take one action a day for 30 days. I'm sharing my steps with you.
I am not an expert. This page is intended to be a beginning - a starting point for people working to become aware of the internal work that must be done before real change can happen.
There are resource guides below for your continued work, organized by Black educators in the field. Join me in using them and transforming these first 30 days into a lifelong spiritual commitment of revolutionary love.
With love, Mary xo
Here is a starter booklist for allies in training who want to know more and do better. Consider buying from a Black-owned bookstore:
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Mindful of Race by Ruth King
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims
The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K. Barnett
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang