Organizations to support / follow
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Here is an incomplete list of Houston businesses owned by Black and other people of color, LGBTQIA+ folks, and people from ethnic and religious minorities. Please email me at dwlgallier@gmail.com with businesses to add to this list. List of Houston Black-led Community Organizations Restaurants: Green Seed Vegan Third Ward Black-owned Asia Market Thai Lao Heights…
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We can do something. Now what? Doom scrolling, wringing our hands, worrying, blaming, and complaining supports the status quo. Despair and retreat are not strategies. We can convert that energy into empowerment when we take action. That action can start with taking care of our mindbodyspirit through exercise, meditation and mindfulness, recreation/beauty/outdoor time, creating art,…
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Houston Center for the Healing of Racism for facilitated dialogues about racism and other forms of oppression Ukombozi Fellowship (in Houston and virtual) Elsewhere in Texas SURJ Austin (Undoing White Supremacy Austin) Unlearning Circles SURJ Dallas/Ft Worth TX/NM Indivisible Antiracism Program (virtual) They have excellent programming but I don’t think they have a website. For…
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Polls show that “public safety” is a top concern of voters. Can we think critically about what keeps us safe? Does it have to be law enforcement, incarceration and institutionalization? Click on the hyperlinks to learn more about a robust definition of safety and what we can do about it.
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The Houston area has been continuously inhabited by indigenous peoples for as long as 30,000 years. It is the ancestral and unceded homeland of many native peoples, including the Atakapa-Ishak, Akokisa, Karankawa and a group of peoples called Coahuiltecan. Despite the brutal, intentional and largely successful efforts by early white Texans to exterminate the indigenous…
Disrupting Whiteness 