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Black Lives Matter...A Note From Brittany

6/9/2020

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This post has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with humanity and living our yoga practice off of the mat.

Last Monday I (Brittany) was listening to an NPR news interview on my way to the studio to teach.
I knew I was listening to a white male interviewer and didn't realize that I was assuming the person he was interviewing was also a white man because of the way he spoke and because he was introduced as being an author and professor at Yale.

The moment the interviewer asked a question along the lines of "What is it like as an African American man raising an African American son in the world today?" Because of deeply embedded racism, my mind did a loop-ti-loop to reassign the image I had pictured of the author and professor at Yale.
It's not that I think authors and Yale professors are all, or should be, white. And yet that was my mental default. This is not okay and this is how obvious, and not so obvious, racism can be as a privileged white woman that has lived most of my life in a culture that values whiteness more than other skin colors and I am committed to spotting it, and weeding out the racism, so that I don't continue to unconsciously pass it on to Isaac, my 2 year old white child, and everyone else around me.
As a small business owner that claims "Yoga is for Everybody." I see many ages, body types, genders, sexual preferences, among our community yet now, more than ever, I see where we have gotten a big huge "NO PASS" for inclusivity. 
I am committed moving us towards the day where we can truly say, "All Lives Matter".
In the meantime, below are some resources that I am using to increase my awareness in what I can do to ensure that Black Lives Matter. 

SCHOLARSHIPS
I am giving away scholarships to aid us in providing and cultivating diversity in our community and trainings.
LISTEN TO
1619 - A podcast from the New York Times
Hear To Slay
At The Intersection
Still Processing - A podcast from the New York Times
Code Switch by NPR
READ
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Writing about Slavery? Teaching about Slavery
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
WATCH
When They See Us by Ava DuVernay
I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck 
13th by Ava DuVernay
FOLLOW and SUPPORT
Denver NAACP Branch
Anti Defamation League- Fighting Hate for Good
Southern Poverty Law Center
Campaign Zero
Black Visions Collective
The Conscious Kid
 WE ARE HIRING
Teacher's and Team Members who's race/background is underrepresented in the western yoga world and especially our current community.
Resources for Kids and Teens
If you are a parent/aunt/uncle/grand parent/cousin/brother/sister, join me at: https://www.patreon.com/theconsciouskid
Follow them on Instagram and Facebook.
 Here is an excerpt from their recent email:
  • Babies begin to notice race at 6 months old — in fact, according to this pair of studies by Professor Kang Lee at the University of Toronto, they actually show signs of racial bias by this age. 
  • One in 10 children is multiracial — according to Pew Research Center. This includes children with parents of two different races, plus those with at least one multiracial parent. 
  • Watch the whole 2 minute "I Love My Hair!" video from Sesame Street.
  • Thanks to Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton. Derrick Gay, and Jinnie Spiegler of the Anti-Defamation League, which has a wide range of resources for anti-bias education.”
____________________________
 
Listen:
  • Talking Race with Children
Watch:
  • The Hate U Give, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America
  • Becoming, a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
  • Dear White People, a Netflix series about being black at a predominantly white college
  • Hidden Figures, a film about the brilliant African American women of NASA
  • Remember the Titans, story of a newly-integrated football team
  • These 26 New York Times mini-films for students
Read:
  • Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
  • Dear Martin by Nic Stone
  • Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
  • Anything by Angie Thomas.
  • The Colors Of Us, by Karen Katz
  • Skin Again, by bell hooks
Books for Ages 0-3:
  • Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara  
  • A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
  • Woke Baby by Mahogany Brown and Theodore Taylor III
  • What is Light? by Markette Sheppard and Cathy Ann Johnson
  • Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim and LeUyen Pham
  • Pretty Brown Face by Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • One Love by Cedella Marley and Vanessa Brantley-Newton

in love and light,
Brittany

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