we are reanimating our lives with anti-racist ancestral cultures.
we are resourcing ourselves and our bodies in liberatory practice.
we are retrieving lineages and cultures.
we are remembering ruptures, traumas, and disconnections.
we are reckoning with violence done, harm caused.
we are rooting into legacies resistance.
we are reimagining ourselves, our relations, and our practices.
we are reanimating our lives with anti-racist ancestral cultures.
we are re-calling our ancestors.
Re-Calling Our Ancestors is a community exploration and ritual inquiry in ancestral recovery, truth-telling, and collective repair. We offer an educational and healing space for committed white anti-racists to deepen their practice of ancestral connection.
Through our programming, consulting, and writing, we support each other as white-assimilated folx to do deep work around the spiritual and cultural loss that can prevent us from being co-liberators in movements for racial and economic justice. Together we are taking bold steps toward de-assimilation and repair.
We re-call our ancestors in service of reparations, repair, and re-imagining a world of flourishing. We believe convening white and white passing folx in caucus with each other and our lineages furthers the efforts in our communities towards cross-cultural and multi-racial healing. When we as white anti-racists strengthen our own resilience and relationships—individually and collectively—through ancestral practices and cultural reclamation, we have far more to offer multi-racial movements for justice.
Why Re-Calling Our Ancestors?
We re-call our ancestors in service of reparations, repair, and re-imagining a world of flourishing. We believe convening white and white passing folx in caucus with each other and our lineages furthers the efforts in our communities towards cross-cultural and multi-racial healing.
We see the need. And, we have been asked and encouraged by People of the Global Majority in our networks and communities.
When we as white anti-racists strengthen our own resilience and relationships—individually and collectively—through ancestral practices and cultural reclamation, we have far more to offer multi-racial movements for justice.
Why an Intensive for White Folx?
Our Theory of Anti-Racist Culture Building
In the midst of climate chaos, ongoing racial injustice, the continued trails of the pandemic —not to mention the many other compounding systems of harm— we need networks of care and communities of resistance anchored by individuals resourced in radical ancestral practices. Moreover, we need critically engaged and culturally-informed white folx showing up in heartfelt and effective service for movements for justice. Re-Calling Our Ancestors seeks to meet this need by situating white folx within their enchanted, critical, evolving, and relevant ancestral lineage(s).
When we as white anti-racists strengthen our own resilience and relationships—individually and collectively—through ancestral practices and cultural reclamation, we have far more to offer multi-racial movements for justice.
A Note for People of the Global Majority
If you are a Person of the Global Majority and feel resonance with this offering and are wondering about opportunities for your own and collective explorations of these topics, please reach out to Sobey Wing, Cross-Cultural Protocols Chair of the Youth Passageways Education and Consulting Collective, at sobeyone@gmail.com. Sobey can share about opportunities for personal mentoring, the upcoming podcast series by and for People of the Global Majority called Rites of Decolonization, and other potential offerings by and for People of the Global Majority.
A Note for Mixed Race & White-Passing Folx
We honor that race is a social construct, and there are people with white skin who come from Black, Indigenous, and/or other Communities of Color who may wish to participate in this offering. If this is you, you are welcome! And, please know your guides for the journey don’t carry this experience in their bodies so won’t be able to speak to these complexities from personal experience.
Prerequisites
We invite folx to join us who hold:
- a commitment to Black-wellness, Indigenous sovereignty, and the flourishing of People of the Global Majority;
- at least a year’s study study in intersectional oppression, systems of domination, and liberatory practices;
- an experience with engaging, conversing, and organizing other white folx
- experience and/or openness to somatic, embodiment and body-based healing modalities
