Racial Justice Resources
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) Resource List
Description: GLAD created a comprehensive racial justice resource list, including various Black Lives Matter Healing Justice and Coping with Racial Trauma toolkits, educational books, films and podcasts, ways to get involved and take action, policy and demanding structural change, and ways to protest safely and effectively.
Center for Racial Justice in Education Resource List
Description: Center for Racial Justice in Education offers reading lists, resources for talking about race, racism and racialized violence with kids, resources for educators and families about immigration and DACA, Black history month resource guide for educators and families, Black History month resources, a racial justice guide for the winter holiday season for educators and families, and a racial justice guide to Thanksgiving.
Racial Equity Tools Resource List
Description: Racial Equity Tools resource list includes faith-focused resources, general resource lists, resource lists for specific events or topics, resource list for specific groups, resources for education, syllabi, curricula, and classes.
Books :
The Pain We Carry : Healing c-PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez
“This groundbreaking work illuminates the phenomena of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color, and provides a much-needed path to health and wholeness.”
Grieving While Black by Breeshia Wade
“Most of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss—the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what’s already happened to us—as something that is connected to what we fear, what we love, and what we aspire toward. Drawing on stories from her own life as a Black woman and from the people she has midwifed through the end of life, she connects sorrow not only to specific incidents but also to the ongoing trauma that is part and parcel of systemic oppression.
Wade reimagines our relationship to power, accountability, and boundaries and points to the long-term work we must all do in order to address systemic trauma perpetuated within our interpersonal relationships. Each of us has a moral obligation to attend to our own grief so that we can responsibly engage with others. Wade elucidates grief in every aspect of our lives, providing a map back to ourselves and allowing the reader to heal their innate wholeness.”
Radical Dharma by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens and Dr. Jasmine Syedullah
“Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah represent a new voice in American Buddhism. Offering their own histories and experiences as illustrations of the types of challenges facing dharma practitioners and teachers who are different from those of the past five decades, they ask how teachings that transcend color, class, and caste are hindered by discrimination and the dynamics of power, shame, and ignorance. Their illuminating argument goes beyond a demand for the equality and inclusion of diverse populations to advancing a new dharma that deconstructs rather than amplifies systems of suffering and prepares us to weigh the shortcomings not only of our own minds but also of our communities. They forge a path toward reconciliation and self-liberation that rests on radical honesty, a common ground where we can drop our need for perfection and propriety and speak as souls. In a society where profit rules, people’s value is determined by the color of their skin, and many voices—including queer voices—are silenced, Radical Dharma recasts the concepts of engaged spirituality, social transformation, inclusiveness, and healing.”
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Explores the damaged caused by racism through the lens of somatic and trauma-based psychology. MGH “paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy - how it is literally in our blood and nervous system.” It “offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.”
Decolonizing Therapy by Dr. Jennifer Mullan
“Decolonizing Therapy sits at the intersections of the psychological, political, ancestral, and the collective. It’s a loving, but urgent call to: bravely and earnestly confront the multi-generational impact of colonization on all of us, uncover and tend to the real roots of symptoms and suffering, to recenter a collective healing process for all indigenous peoples, globally; and for those forcibly displaced and made to engage in emotional and physical labor in order to survive–in order to be seen as human. It calls for an end to individualistic and pathologizing Eurocentric methods of wellness–one that includes those who have been purposely excluded and historically forgotten. It demands a model of mental health that is accessible to all and that offers a path to liberation and thriving.
Where Do We Go From Here : Chaos or Community? By Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK’s analysis of the state of American race relations and the movement after a decade of U.S. civil rights struggles - scary accurate for today’s political climate.
Therapy Resources Specifically for Black Folks :
Therapy for Black Girls : an online community dedicated to encouraging mental wellness for Black women and Black girls. Therapy for Black Girls also offers a referral tool to help users find mental health services.
The Loveland Foundation : founded by Rachel Cargle, provides financial assistance for Black women and girls throughout the U.S.
Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation : Founded by Taraji P. Henson, aims to increase access to mental health services, raise mental health awareness, and highlight the impact of mental health conditions in Black communities. Includes a directory of culturally competent therapists and culturally sensitive Black-centered wellness resources.
Black Men Heal : provides mental health treatment, psycho-education, and support services to men of color
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
Melanin and Mental Health: network that connects BIPOC communities to mental health resources
Black Pioneers in Mental Health
Indigenous Therapy Resources:
We R Native : a holistic health resource created for Native youth by Native youth; offers an “Ask Your Relative” portal, where users can submit questions to a team of educators, public health professionals, and caring adults with an Indigenous background.
Well for the Culture : revolutionary self-help guide from two Native American wellness activists, offering wisdom for achieving spiritual, physical and emotional wellbeing rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge.
Wellbriety Movement : a sustainable grassroots Wellbriety Movement that provides culturally based healing for the next seven generations of Indigenous people.
White Bison Recovery : Wellbriety resource that offers recovery and prevention information, including links to local Wellbriety circles.
Psychology Today Indigenous Provider Directory : directory that specifies practitioners that identify themselves as Native American
Inclusive Therapists : BIPOC provider directory
Tips by Native Aunties for Mental Health : mental health support from aunties Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings (Choctaw health psychologist) and Dr. Karina Walters (Choctaw clinical social worker).
Indigenous Story Studio : “creates illustrations, posters, videos and comic books on health and social issues for youth” center Indigenous storytelling.
Strong Hearts Native Helpline : confidential and anonymous culturally-appropriate domestic violence and dating violence helpline for Native Americans. Hours : 7am to 10pm available every day from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. PST.