Today's episode of Higher Priestess is going to focus on race and white privilege.

These aren't obviously wholly new topics for this platform, but the reason events have been a

reminder for all of us in our whiteness to be explicit when it comes to understanding our own

internalised white supremacy and racism and privileges. The episode will be deliberately dense,

as we'll be steering you as a predominantly white audience,

not only into discomfort in our whiteness, but hopefully even more importantly, into the perspectives of black voices.

Gina Martin recently reflected that she isn't teaching her audience about race,

but instead is learning publicly alongside them, and we're going to echo her sentiments here.

White people, including us as white girls, are not your resources and we are not your teachers. Our perspective is not what

matters here. As always, any of the black women that we talk about during this episode, they are not

your free labour. Do not overwhelm them with messages or questions from your own guilt and your own fragility pay them

financially reimburse them in any way that you can so really our hopes of this episode are twofold

so in a way we hope that a lot of these voices are familiar to you already and that you've been

listening to them for a long time already but also i think we do hope that we direct you to some new

perspectives.

Okay, Malcolm X said, hopefully you've heard of Malcolm X.

We're starting from the basics.

The most, well, I think a lot of people are only now learning about Markham X.

So here we go, including us, we're learning.

He said in 1962, the most

disrespected woman in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the

black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman. And so I think that poses

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