The foundational course designed to help you build real understanding of how race and racism actually function, beyond surface-level conversations, good intentions, or personal anecdotes. This course breaks down key concepts like systemic racism, power, racialization, and harm, while challenging common myths and misunderstandings that keep people stuck. You’ll learn how racism operates not just through individual actions, but through systems, structures, and everyday participation, and how to recognize your role within that without collapsing into defensiveness or avoidance. This course centers impact over intent, and gives you the language, frameworks, and self-awareness needed to engage responsibly in conversations about race. 👉 Doing the Work is the recommended starting point before taking more applied courses like the Allyship Toolbox. Want to learn more about Deconstructing Race, Racism and Theater? Take the course. This isn’t about perfection or being seen as “good.” It’s about building the clarity and capacity to show up differently, consistently, and with accountability.

Acknowledging privilege is supposed to be the beginning of something. But for a lot of white people, it has become the whole thing. They say “I know I have privilege” with the same casual ease that someone might say “I know I should drink more water” and then keep doing exactly what they were doing before. The acknowledgment becomes a kind of inoculation. Like saying the words out loud makes them exempt from what the words actually require. What makes it strange, and genuinely disorienting to watch, is the confidence. There is no embarrassment. No sense that the acknowledgment obligates anything. They can say “I recognize I have unearned advantages rooted in a history of racial violence and exploitation” and in the same breath center themselves in a conversation that was never about them, talk over the Black person in the room, benefit from the same system they just named as unjust, and call it a day. And if you point that out, you will often hear some version of “but I already said I know.” As if knowing is the same as doing. As if saying the right thing cancels out doing the harmful thing. This is what happens when anti-racism gets reduced to a vocabulary lesson. People learn the language without internalizing any of the obligation that the language is supposed to carry. Privilege stops being a call to examine behavior and starts being treated like a personality trait. Something you have, something you name, and then move on from. The discomfort of the admission gets mistaken for the work itself. But the work is not about what you can say. It is about what you are willing to give up, sit with, and be wrong about. It is about what you actually do when your comfort is in direct conflict with someone else’s dignity. Saying you have privilege and then using it anyway is not growth. It is not even honesty. It is just a more polished version of the same thing you were already doing. source https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1bAFMyyMoU/

Here’s a link to Beah Richards poem: http://www.drmomma.org/2015/02/beah-richards-black-woman-speaks-of.html?m=1

Get "Doing the Work," The Healing blueprint " and "Deconstructing race, racism, and theater!" All available in the classroom! . The Healing Blueprint If you are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or not sure where to begin, this is where you start. The Healing Blueprint is a quick start guide to understanding your nervous system, your patterns, and what healing actually looks like in practice. This is not about fixing yourself. It is about learning how you work. Inside, we focus on: - building skills and foundations - understanding where you are in the healing journey - reconnecting with yourself on every level You do not need to have it all figured out. You just need a place to begin. Doing the Work Deconstruction is not a performance. It is a practice. This course is your guide to deconstructing racism, bias, and internalized systems in a way that is grounded, honest, and sustainable. Not surface-level awareness. Not saying the “right” thing. Actual internal work. We focus on: - understanding how systems shape belief and behavior - interrupting defensiveness and fragility - building emotional capacity for discomfort - shifting from intention to impact This is not about being seen as “good.” It is about being accountable, aware, and in practice. Deconstructing Race, Racism, and Theater The stage didn’t just reflect culture. It helped build it. This course breaks down how racism has shaped American entertainment, from minstrelsy to modern media. If you work in theater, storytelling, or performance spaces, this is essential context. We cover: - the roots of racialized performance - how stereotypes were created and reinforced on stage - the ongoing impact on casting, storytelling, and production - what responsibility looks like in creative spaces today This is not just history. It is the system we are still working inside of. The Allyship Toolbox (For TikTok Hosts) When harm looks like help. Going live about race without the skills to hold it can cause real harm.

We talk a lot about “diversity” in abstract ways. But have you ever actually looked at the data for where you live? 👉 Explore your city here (use the tool and type in your city or zip code) https://bestneighborhood.org/racial-distribution-by-city/ This map breaks down racial distribution by city and neighborhood—who lives where, and in what proportions. And here’s why this matters: Race isn’t just about identity—it’s also about how people are grouped, separated, and distributed across systems like housing. So when you look at your neighborhood, you’re not just seeing “who lives there.” You’re seeing: Patterns of access Patterns of exclusion Patterns of history still playing out --- 💭 Reflection prompts: Does your neighborhood reflect the diversity of your city? Your State? Who is missing and why might that be? What does proximity (or lack of it) shape about your worldview? How might this connect to schools, resources, or safety? Segregation today doesn’t always look like laws, sometimes it looks like: “Good neighborhoods” “Property values” “School districts” “Where people feel comfortable living” But these patterns didn’t appear randomly. This is part of doing the work. Not just learning concepts, but noticing the world you’re moving through.o Look up your area and reflect. Then come back and share your thoughts, tell us what you noticed. 🔍