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.

Welcome to Deconstructing Race, Racism & Theatre! Drop: 🎭 Your name & pronouns 📍 Where you’re joining from 🖤 One reason you joined 📸 A photo of your workspace, rehearsal room, or favorite creative corner Bonus: If your life were a play right now, what would this chapter be called?

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.