Join YBH co-founder, Nic Roc, for YBH's First Book Club meeting. I'll be dedicating the book club series to the action of Anti-Racism. My hope is that over the next six months we can begin to educate, challenge, acknowledge our implicit biases, and dive into disucssion.
The time you put aside to educate and dismantle your prejudices and implicit biases is the necessary initial work to understanding how to become a better ally.
Our first book is, White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by author Robin Diangelo.
We're starting here, because I feel so many are in a moment of trying to understand what to do with their priviledge, understand how they play a role in racism, and what their next steps should be in taking part to help dismantle dominant narratives.
Currently, there are many book stores who are selling out of a lot of titles geared towards racism. I suggest getting audio books and/or ebooks. Local book store, La Playa Books, has an audio and ebook option of the title to be read.
The San Diego Library also offers ebooks and audio books. For this title, you can find the ebook here. You must have a library card to access.
What to look forward to
We will be meeting bi-weekly to discuss assigned chapters.
Meetings will be on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month, starting at 5:30pm
I will most likely be meeting via zoom for now. Depending on the monitoring of COVID, we may meet in-person at YBH. For those of you not in the area, I will also stream the meeting so you can still participate.
Please note, I am not the expert. Robin Diangelo is the expert. Nor am I trained in equity, diversity, and inclusion. I'm simply bringing people together so that we can hold one another accountable, encourage growth, and hold safe space for discussion.
Let's Get Started!
First half, Starting Now: Read Chapters 1-5
First meeting is June 23rd @ 6 pm - 8pm
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Second half: Read Chapters 6 -12
Second meeting is July 14th @ 6pm - 8pm
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Looking forward to learning with you!