SOCIAL JUSTICE
RESOURCES
Uncovering Biases:
Online workshops:
Yoga for Social Justice: From Cultural Disembodiment to an Elevated Collective Consciousness with Nityda
Healing Collective Trauma – Nityda’s Interview for the Trauma-Informed Yoga Online Summit
Anti-racism trainings:
Me and White Supremacy Workbook
Rachel Cargle: Unpacking White Feminism Tour
Free Racialized Trauma Course with Resmaa Menakem
Michelle Cassandra Johnson – Author of Skill in Action
Recommended Readings:
Books:
My Grandmother’w Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resemaa Menakem
Skill in Action by Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change edited by Beth Berila, Melanie Klein, and Chelsea Jackson Roberts
When they call you a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Pushout: The Criminalization of of Black Girls in Schools by Monique M. Morris
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Articles:
White Supremacy as a Trauma Response by Resmaa Menakem
How Racism Began as White on White Violence by Resmaa Menakem
Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People by Kelsey Blackwell
I Need to Talk to Spiritual White Women About White Supremacy: Part One by Layla Saad
I Need to Talk to Spiritual White Women About White Supremacy: Part Two by Layla Saad
The Roots of White Supremacy are in Our Bodies by Madelanne Rust-D’Eye
When People of Color Say They Want Their Own Yoga, White People Should Listen by Krista Lee Hanson
Little Brown Girls and the Whitewashing of Yoga by Crystal McCreary
Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community by Sunshine Behavioral Health
Films:
13th – Ava DuVernay (Netflix)
When They See Us – Ava DuVernay (Netflix)
Podcasts:
Seeing White – a Podcast Series with John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika
The Breakdown Podcast with Shaun King
Yoga Talk Podcast Ep 36: Yoga and Social Justice Part One
Yoga Talk Podcast Ep 37: Yoga and Social Justice Part Two
Chitheads Podcast Ep 81- Bo Forbes on Diseases of Disembodiment
Speakout with Tim Wise
Embodiment Time – Dismantling the Systems of Oppression Through Trauma-Conscious Yoga
From the Heart Conversations with Yoga Girl: Cultural Appropriation with Susanna Barataki (Aug 31, 2018)
From the Heart Conversations with Yoga Girl: How to Be a True Ally to Women of Color with Rachel Cargle (Sept 7, 2018)
More:
Co-founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi
TransJustice: The Audre Lorde Project
Yogic Texts:
The Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
- Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter
