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Love Letter to a Librarian

Tonight, tomorrow morning, this weekend, take a moment, take multiple moments, and write a love letter to a librarian. Thank them for protecting stories. Thank them for protecting knowledge. Thank them for protecting people. For a few days now, libraries across Chicagoland have received bomb threats. They coincided with the testimony of Illinois Secretary of…
Doesn’t Bug Me

by Christine Saxman Before Shelly Tochluk and I co-authored Being White Today: A Roadmap to a Positive White Antiracist Identity, we co-authored the Western State Center (WSC)’s toolkit Confronting Conspiracy Theories and Organized Bigotry at Home: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers along with Joanna Schroeder and WSC staff. In the toolkit, we uplifted an…
White Culture & Country Music

In Being White Today: A Roadmap to A Positive Antiracist Life, Shelly Tochluk and I make a distinction between White people, White culture, and whiteness. This is not an easy distinction to understand, and it has taken us years to internalize it ourselves. To get there in workshops, I often ask participants to give examples…
Seductive Narratives: The Insurgence and Young White People

Hello White Community, We need to talk with our young people about this white extremist insurrection. Far-right recruiters continue to target white youth, liberal and conservative, with tailored messages. We must counter those seductive narratives. Not all youth are ambivalent. In some cases, we need to listen to, learn from, and share their level-headed leadership…
Guest Letter: Teaching Compassion and Acceptance Equates to Silence

Written by Heather Hernandez – From Christine: I post this letter to support the growing collective of white people working intentionally to end racism in accountability to and in solidarity with people of color. In the last week, I have found myself seeing social media posts from many white suburban mothers, like myself. In a…
White People: Standing Up to Anti-Asian Racism During a Pandemic

After seeing multiple requests from Asian folks and other folks of color to interrupt the fear, ignorance, and racism in the time of COVID-19, I feel called to reach out to my White community and ask us to do more. My humble offering comes from my perspective as a White woman working to end racism.…
Resources for Teachers and Parents

I am often asked for resources for White parents and teachers. I developed this document to be an evolving source: Resource Guide for White Teachers and Parents Developing Consciousness and Moving into Action – Saxman And here are some resources specifically on white nationalism: Interrupting White Nationalist Recruitment – Saxman & Tochluk While it has…
To Wear A Pin or Not

I wrote these thoughts as a white, upper-middle-class, able-bodied, heterosexual, secular humanist woman, with the primary goal of connecting more deeply with other white people and being open to all other intersections. I was deeply impacted by and must honor this writer of color–Isobel Debrujah’s “So You Want to Wear a Safety Pin.” There was…