Brief Report Back Sunday 9/10 What Will White Womyn Do To End Racism?"

We began this new 3 months series of "What Will White Womyn Do To End Racism" with a three tiered personal intro for a brief look into who we are and what brings us to this gathering.

We also firmed up the shape, format & commitment over the next three months. We will meet every 2nd & 4th Sunday, from 4pm pacific/7pm eastern for 1.5 to 2 hours. At the end of this series of gatherings, we can decide to continue or reconfigure, etc.

One part of our discourse centered around accepting/rejecting/questioning whether every single time a Black person 'accuses' a white person of being racist or responding in a racist manner, is it really true: i.e. am I really being racist or could it just be a personality conflict or some other reason instead of racism fueling the conflict.

We also talked about identifying & rectifying seemingly benign racist language at the workplace. As "grandfathering in" - besides the obvious not "grandmothering" - we explored both the racist origins of the word and the actual embedded racism of this practice.

We discussed the especially prevalent anti-Muslim racism and the many ways and on many levels it manifests itself, as well as anti-Black and brown racism.

Especially in the feminist community, most blatantly targeting the shera Hibo Wardere from Somalia whose life’s work is the smashing of the FGM practice, which ‘liberals’ are claiming is “transphobic”, therefore not just not supporting her work, but vilianizing and deplatforming her.

We also talked about Cherry Smiley whose work is to end male violence, especially sexual violence and especially against Indigenous womyn.

Our next gathering will be Sunday September 27th. Our intention is to delve into Dr. Lanier's Racial Equity first day tiktok