Some of the earliest Spiritualists were considered radical Quakers! For them, spirituality could not be divorced from social justice as it often is today. The home of Amy Post (pictured above) not only welcomed many on the underground railroad but also the Fox sisters, Fredrick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Jacobs.
It can be easy to lose track of this with everything going on, but every single one of us is critical to the movement for freedom from racial oppression. All of our gifts are needed, and each of us has the power to make real and lasting change.
To do so, though, most of us need support! Effective anti-racism work is an ongoing, lifelong endeavor, and we need community to keep ourselves resourced and accountable.
We’re doing that in the form of monthly meetings with the goal of keeping up momentum in our pro-liberation actions. Here’s the specifics:
We are creating a space for witnessing each others’ commitments to this work (however you define it), not focusing on any one book or action.
We will have minimal facilitation, allowing for emergent collaboration and community-building. (tx Adrienne Maree Brown). Our core idea is to provide a supportive accountability space, but we want participants to co-create the way we do this by bringing their own ideas and offerings.
Each session is a stand-alone meeting, so people can come and go however works best for them.
This is an open invitation for anyone interested in joining and please share it.
We’ll use this Zoom room with the same URL (and no waiting room) every time so there won’t be reminders or follow ups – you’ll need to take it upon yourself to know when, where and how to show up.
The basic structure will be monthly 1.5 hour meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. If someone has offered to do an introductory exercise (meditation, movement, dance, poem, etc) we’ll do that. Otherwise we’ll get right in triads to talk about the work. We’ll spend roughly half the time in those small groups, then switch to the larger group for discussion and sharing. That’s about it! And we’ll adjust as we see fit as a group.
There’s no prerequisite to join other than taking it on ourselves to make the world a more liberated and less oppressed place with a focus on racial justice and dismantling white supremacy. We will be sharing our commitments to this work with each other in the first session, so anyone who comes should be prepared for that.
Please invite anyone you’d like and we hope to see you there!