You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 5, Anti-Racism in the Wild.

Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. First-name basis is designed to

empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in

your community. Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the

world we want, a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion,

and courage.

I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you.

Hello, First Name Basis, fam.

I am so glad you are here.

So today I have a really interesting episode to bring you you might have heard the title anti-racism in the wild and thought what in the world is she talking about

well we're going to be breaking down the intersection between racism and the outdoors. A lot of times we think as the national

parks and getting outside as something really relaxing, something refreshing, a way to escape from

it all. But the reality is that black and indigenous people of color never get to escape from

racism. So I really wanted to bring you this episode to help you see

that anti-racism touches every single part of your life in the same way that racism touches

every part of my life. Wherever racism is, anti-racism needs to be. And the outdoors is no exception to that i thought this would be the

perfect time to have this conversation because i know that a lot of you will be getting outside for

black friday and so i wanted you to be aware before you get out there of the things that you can do

to make that space more inclusive to all families if you're feeling a little bit confused about what racism looks like in the outdoors,

I have a couple of examples for you.

So the first is one that I think most of us are familiar with,

and that was the situation that happened over the summer with the black birdwatcher,

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