7.1: You Are Not Meant to Do This Alone: The Power of Anti-Racist Community
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Anti-racism is meant to be done in community.
It makes sense, right? This work is SO important and we need to be sharing it with others in order for change to actually happen. But we also need support in it — especially during the times when it feel like that change is coming at a snail’s pace.
In this episode, we’re talking more about why community is important and how we can go about creating a community in our anti-racist work. You’ll learn more about:
- Why anti-racist community should really just be community and why there shouldn’t be a need to separate it out.
- How community affects both your mental and physical health.
- The two main reasons why communities form.
- 6 of the characteristics of positive community.
Ally Elementary and Ally Elementary Jr.
We are opening the doors to both Ally Elementary and Ally Elementary Jr. on Sept. 20!
Parents have been asking for a practical, interactive way to implement the anti-racist strategies that I lay out in the First Name Basis Podcast, so I created Ally Elementary and Ally Elementary Jr.
Ally Elementary is geared toward third-eighth graders, while Ally Elementary Jr. is for the smaller allies in our lives who are in preschool-second grade.
During these programs, parents will work together with their children to create a culture of anti-racism in their home. We will use hands-on activities to teach our children about everything from the untold story of how race was created to how they can disrupt racism in their everyday lives to how they can learn more about their individual identity and culture. I am so excited to watch the families in our community make a meaningful transformation and improve their communities through anti-racist action.
Click here to join the waitlist for Ally Elementary (for third-eighth graders)
Click here to join the waitlist for Ally Elementary Jr. (for preschool-second graders)
Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 5, Episode 4: “Black Lives Matter: How Will You Respond?” with Veronica Chambers
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 5, Episode 16: “Age Appropriate Anti-Racism”
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 4, Episode 10: “The Memory That I Can’t Shake: The Why Behind Ally Elementary”
“10 Traits That Make a Positive Community,” by Dr. Nicole Celestine
“The Roseto Effect: The Amazing Power of Relationships for Heart Health” by Joel Kahn
“Strong communities, wellbeing and resilience,” The King’s Fund
Live Free Free Creative Grown Up Summer Camp
Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 7, Episode 1. You are not meant to do this alone, |
| 0:08.5 | the power of anti-racist community. Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:25.8 | 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. |
| 0:33.9 | Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want, |
| 0:40.0 | a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello, First Name Basis fam. |
| 0:55.3 | I am so glad you are here. |
| 0:58.3 | And I am so glad to be saying those words because we are kicking off season seven today. |
| 1:04.4 | We've had such an exciting summer with my family moving from Arizona all the way to |
| 1:10.0 | Maryland. |
| 1:10.4 | And now I'm ready to get back into it with |
| 1:13.1 | all of you. This summer, I feel like I've done a lot of reflecting and one of the things that I've |
| 1:19.5 | been reflecting about a lot is how do I make sure that I am engaging in an anti-racist practice that is sustainable. I have been doing this work |
| 1:31.0 | for over six years now, and I feel like it definitely ebbs and flows. Like there are times when I feel like |
| 1:39.1 | I can go full throttle and do this amazing, you know, activism in the world. But then there are other times where |
| 1:47.4 | I am so incredibly burnt out and I'm like, is this even worth it? Like, and I, I don't know, |
| 1:54.2 | it's probably not super inspiring, but it's very candid. Like, this is a problem that might not be |
| 2:00.3 | fixed in my lifetime and that's kind of a scary thought |
| 2:03.0 | and how do I make sure that I'm taking care of myself enough to keep going in this work because |
| 2:08.2 | it is so important that I do so. So with that said, the conversation that we are going to have |
| 2:14.5 | today is all about community and the power of community in our lives |
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