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I hope everyone who reads this is recovering from the effects of the storm and power outage and has the resources they need to go forward. If you don’t, please let me know; I’m not sure I can do anything but I will try. Beryl gave us a lot to unpack. At first, I wanted…
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Unfortunately there is no right way to speak up when we see oppressive behavior. It depends on the circumstances. Here are a couple of recent situations and how I addressed them. I would love to hear what you would do. At an exercise class on June 20, 2024 attended by only white people, the white…
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July is a quiet month in Houston due to the heat and summer vacations, making it a good time to disrupt whiteness in ourselves, to unlearn our harmful socialization and relearn truth about history, the lived experiences of people who have been targeted for systemic oppression, and our own and our family’s complicity. Following is…
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The Houston Landing made this post easy. Click here for their list of ways to learn about and celebrate Juneteenth in and around Houston. I would add to this list on June 15, the 31st annual Juneteenth Ally Award and BBQ of the Center for the Healing of Racism.
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I have a few LGBTQIA+ friends of color, trans friends, or nonbinary friends, and I asked a few of them who I hoped wouldn’t find it burdensome to answer the following question: “Do you mind telling me some things you’d love cishet folks to do during Pride?” Or another version was : “If there is…
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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…
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– June 1-14 HAAPI Film Festival (Houston AAPI) https://www.haapifest.org/ – June 2 – Project Row Houses Round 56 Post Hip Hop? https://projectrowhouses.org/on-view/ – June 2 and other dates – for the kids – Brave Little Company Missing from the Museum (which I believe is virtual) https://events.humanitix.com/missing-from-the-museum-kne4tces – ASAP Share this call for workshop proposals to multi-racial communities and…
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Disrupting Whiteness is a Houston-based blog and affinity / workshop space with the goal of supporting people working for social change. Workshops include: I’m Laura Gallier, she/her, the creator of Disrupting Whiteness. I’m a white straight 60ish-year-old, christian*, usually-abled, professional-class, married southern woman. From 2015-2024 I worked with the Center for the Healing of Racism…
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