Being White Today

What Black scholars are you appreciating this Juneteenth?

Nell Irvin Painter’s understanding of America is beautiful and bracing. We should listen. From the opening sentences of her new collection, “I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays,” historian Nell Irvin Painter addresses readers in a voice brimming with knowledge, clarity and, most delightfully, confidence. As she writes, it would have been a terrible thing had she died young, “duri...

Being White Today was on WGDT. Check out Christine's interview! Shelly Tochluk Christine Saxman

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Join us if you can and invite a friend.

We have some pretty cool special guests joining us.

Shelly Tochluk and Christine Saxman will celebrate the launch of the newest editions of Being White Today, in audiobook and paperback.

We'll talk with some special guests about how the book supports White people to:
* understand the landscape of far-right and antiracist conflict and how to engage effectively
* learn the different ways White people can participate in racial justice efforts
* take more healthy courageous action to end racism

Sunday, May 19
12-2 PT/ 11-1 MT/2-4 CT/ 3-5 ET

It will not be recorded.

Being White Today: The Audiobook and Paperback Launch Join us May 19 to hear the authors Shelly Tochluk and Christine Saxman and some special guests share how the book supports community.

Co-Authors Christine and Shelly were in Tulsa, OK at , where they co-facilitated a workshop on the book and Christine co-facilitated a workshop with the In*******al Transformation Collective.

They also had the opportunity to explore the Greenwood Community and learn from the community members themselves at the Greenwood Cultural Center.

Join co-author Christine Saxman, Ismalis Ivette, Nicole Shimizu Nguyen, and Krischanna Saylor Roberson at for Our Full day Institute "Speaking Truth at the Family Reunion: The Transformational Power of In*******al Relationships Grounded in Identity.

Be sure to include the Institute when you register. Full description below.
https://web.cvent.com/event/f2885e48-9909-4b3f-aeb8-e5fed7b93532/summary

Excellent News! The paperback edition of Being White Today is coming out March 15th! And we hope to have news on the audiobook soon.

In the meantime, you can check the audiobook of the 3rd edition of Witnessing Whiteness from Shelly via your favorite audio service like Left Bank Books(via Libro.fm) or audible.
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781541486973-witnessing-whiteness?bookstore=leftbank

Witnessing Whiteness Audiobook on Libro.fm Witnessing Whiteness invites listeners to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor...

Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk are excited to be hosting a workshop on Being White Today at WPC25.

We'd love to see you there! Register here: https://cvent.me/VwvDMY

Christine will also be co-facilitating an Institute with the In*******al Transformation Collective.

Join us! Thank you The Privilege Institute!

The registration is now open on our website: www.theprivilegeinstitute.com or click the link in the comments below.

With multiple threats to libraries in co-author Christine's hometown of Chicago this week....

tonight,

tomorrow morning,

this weekend,

take a moment,

take multiple moments,

and

write a love letter

to a librarian.

Shelly Tochluk Christine Saxman

Love Letter to a Librarian Tonight,       tomorrow morning,             this weekend,  take a moment,     &nb…

"We need to pay attention to conspiracy theories and how they can be used to recruit. And the shady side of the world works to discourage us. Stay strong and connected. We encourage you to embrace both/and thinking, cultivate healthy curiosity, and check out more empowering tools in Being White Today: A Roadmap to a Positive White Antiracist Identity and the WSC toolkit." Shelly Tochluk Christine Saxman

Doesn’t Bug Me by Christine Saxman Before Shelly Tochluk and I co-authored Being White Today: A Roadmap to a Positive White Antiracist Identity, we co-authored the Western State Center (WSC)’s toolkit Confronting…

Thank you _jena_d for this review of BWT and for being a part of our loving antiracist White community. - Christine & Shelly

“As a white person working to notice and understand how racism lives within me in order to destroy it; and as a white person working with other white people on the same, Being White Today has helped me understand the feelings, thoughts and actions that can become detours in becoming anti-racist. It is revealing and helpful in learning how even my good intentions can be off-putting and alienating despite wanting to do the opposite. Being White Today has put words where confusion and obfuscation were, so that I can relearn who I am as a white anti racist person and so that I can work in community with other white people to build movement towards positive identity and change.”

I, Christine, spent some time thinking about White culture and country music. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Shelly Tochluk

White Culture & Country Music In Being White Today: A Roadmap to A Positive Antiracist Life, Shelly Tochluk and I make a distinction between White people, White culture, and whiteness. This is not an easy distinction to underst…

Committed to a just world where no one is murdered expressing Black q***r joy.

RIP O'Shae Sibley.

Day Two is on the books! No, I did not read it upside down. So excited to complete this project and offer another access point for people.



Shelly Tochluk Christine Saxman

Day One of Being White Today the audio book is a wrap! Big thanks to Mystery Street Recording Company for their guidance and support bringing our project to people's ears.
Christine Saxman Shelly Tochluk.

“The journey to construct this positive, antiracist White identity is more life-giving and inspiring than many imagine. This is because the road necessarily involves becoming part of an antiracist community. Yes, antiracist communities are challenging. Yes, the terrain is always shifting, and there is constantly new information to absorb. Yes, it can be uncomfortable when ever-evolving expectations require change. All of this is true.”


Christine Saxman Shelly Tochluk

Being White Today

Check out co-author Shelly Tochluk's book talk.

Being White Today:
A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life

“We must love people into our movements for justice…
That is our complex and necessary challenge.” - Paul Kivel

Shelly Tochluk, Ph.D.,
Professor of Education, Mount Saint Mary’s University – Los Angeles

Friday, August 4th – 7:00 p.m. PT (via Zoom)

Topics to include:
· What a healthy, positive, antiracist White identity looks like
· How to avoid conflating terms: White people, White Culture, and Whiteness
· Tips for talking with friends and family about race

Co-sponsored by Chalice’s Racial and Cultural Justice Team

Please register for the forum in advance here:

https://bit.ly/BeingWhiteTodayRoadmapforaPositiveAntiracistLife

Being White Today:
A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life
 
“We must love people into our movements for justice…
That is our complex and necessary challenge.”  - Paul Kivel
 
Shelly Tochluk, Ph.D.,
Professor of Education, Mount Saint Mary’s University – Los Angeles
 
Friday, August 4th – 7:00 p.m. PT (via Zoom)

Topics to include:
·      What a healthy, positive, antiracist White identity looks like
·      How to avoid conflating terms: White people, White Culture, and Whiteness
·      Tips for talking with friends and family about race
 
Co-sponsored by Chalice’s Racial and Cultural Justice Team
 
Please register for the forum in advance here:

https://bit.ly/BeingWhiteTodayRoadmapforaPositiveAntiracistLife

Anti-Racist Community Network (ACRN) presents a free public event series via zoom! A conversation with Shelly Tochluk!

TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2023
7:00–8:30PM EASTERN TIME

Author Shelly Tochluk believes the current battle lines drawn around white racial identity are misleading and dangerous. She will address the problem of seemingly oppositional – and often manipulative – messaging around whiteness and white people,
drawing on themes from her newly published book, Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life. This talk is sure to provoke deep thinking, as she argues that antiracists must not cede the territory of white identity to white supremacists, but instead claim it as part of our important role in the fight for a just, multi-racial democracy.

Non-ARCN members can register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/.../author-talk-with-shelly...

Non-members can join ARCN with the 30-day free trial. We offer a complimentary
equity membership for Black, Indigenous & other people of color. See all offers here. After joining, visit “Events,” open the June 20 event, and click “Going.”
https://antiracistcommunity.cswac.org

ARCN members: Please do not sign up on Eventbrite. Instead visit the ARCN event page and click “Going” or “RSVP.”
https://antiracistcommunity.cswac.org

Thank you to Speak Out and NCORE for uplifting our work in Being White Today.

We believe in our ability to create a larger collective of antiracist White people doing this work in accountability to and solidarity with People of Color.

Shelly Tochluk Christine Saxman

So humbled and grateful to be included by NCORE and Speak Out in NOLA!



Shelly Tochluk Christine Saxman

Check out this story on the work of Being White Today: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/white-writer-offers-advice-for-having-constructive-talks-with-racist-friends-family/article_7ecde196-edd1-11ed-99a1-3724fc0b0159.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_St._Louis_Post-Dispatch&fbclid=IwAR0LskdJeh3x4AXR86UNapYy48ss2vppm0Ha5PhUBxZyk4zCHHp93qQuXsE
Christine Saxman Shelly Tochluk

White writer offers advice for having constructive talks with racist friends, family Author Shelly Tochluk will talk about the upcoming book "Being White Today" and grappling with racial identity.

We have a release date for the hardcover and electronic versions: June 14, 2023!

We have future plans for an audio version.

Social justice educators (of any background) who are looking for the most effective ways of working with White students will want to read this book. Using an understanding of White racial identity development, Tochluk and Saxman have created a resource that offers the tools needed to support students on their anti-racist learning journey.

https://www.amazon.com/Being-White-Today-Positive-Antiracist/dp/1475870558/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OMOYD46RLRHV&keywords=being+white+today&qid=1678819914&sprefix=being+white+today%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1

-- Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, president of Spelman College, and author of "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations about Race"

Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life

“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose" Kimberlé Crenshaw.

H/T Cultivating Intersectional Leadership
https://www.cultivatingintersectionalleadership.com/

Hello White Community. What have you learned about the beauty and art of Black hair? What more can we learn?

Appreciate an amazing artist.

Krista Franklin Original Artworks of Krista Franklin

"I really hope no white person ever has cause
to write about me
because they never understand
Black love is Black wealth and they’ll
probably talk about my hard childhood
and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy"

Nikki Giovanni — Nikki Rosa

Learning Opportunity: Navigating Your Calling in the Time of Education Gag Orders

Join State Teachers of the Year for an honest conversation about how we hold on to our why in the current educational landscape. Designed especially for pre-service teachers across the US, session presenters will provide concrete examples and tools for providing affirming classroom spaces for our kids even when political and cultural barriers exist. Presenters will use research, personal stories, and practical steps that will equip the audience with strategies they can use in their own context.

In this session, you will learn ways to use your voice and claim your teacher agency in spite of the politics that may be at play in your state or school district. Brought to you by Education Deans for Justice and Equity in partnership with the Voices for Honest Education, powered by the National Network of State Teachers of the Year and the National Center for Youth Law. You won’t want to miss it! Registration is required using the link below.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Navigating Your Calling in the Time of Education Gag Orders. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join State Teachers of the Year for an honest conversation about how we hold on to our why in the current educational landscape. Designed especially for pre-service teachers across the US, session presenters will provide concrete examples and tools for providing affirming classroom spaces for our ki...

"The start of this Black History Month has been marked by unprecedented attacks on the introduction of the new AP African American Studies course together with recent revisions which have excised much of the content that had been targeted by Governor Ron De Santis’s latest assault on the teaching of race and anti-racism.

To make sense of these developments, join AAPF for our next urgent Under the Blacklight conversation where we will bring together stakeholders in public and higher education to discuss the context of this latest educational assault and why we cannot adopt a carve out strategy to defend African-American studies. These bad-faith, anti-democratic attacks not only elevate anti-Blackness onto the political agenda but distort and suppress educational tools designed to build better societal understanding of the intersections of racism, history and current politics. Ideas like critical race theory or intersectionality are not ancillary to the teaching of Black history or American history, they are essential. To live in a country where politicians dictate which books can be on school library shelves or which ideas can be included in curricula—as opposed to empowering professional educators to make these choices—not only underserves our nation's school children, but also undermines democracy."

Whitewashing Black Studies: The Fight For African American Studies... Live at Columbia Univ. in NYC, we'll examine the attacks on AP African American Studies and discuss the threats to anti-racism & democracy

White community:

Consider the influence you have over how SRO's are used in schools.

Use your influence to advocate for no harm to students. Use your influence to name the racial disproportionality.

CW: the video shows violence against young people

Video: ‘Get Your Hands Off Me’: Student Arrest Puts Role of School Police Under Scrutiny A Tennessee high school student was violently arrested after refusing to play kickball in gym class. Body camera footage has renewed scrutiny over the role of school police.

White community, learn about Black resistance, amplify Black history, normalize Black history as US history.

https://asalh.org/black-history-themes/

Dear White Community,

Share the beauty of Tyre’s life and not the brutal video.

And take action following Black leadership in your community.

https:// www.npr.org/2023/01/29/1152387262/remembering-tyre-nichols

Tyre Nichols loved skateboarding. That's how his friends say they'll remember him Old videos of Nichols on his skateboard have taken on new meaning in recent days — offering friends a way to remember what he loved and how he lived, as opposed to the harrowing way he died.