Two Dog Stands with Black Lives Matter
and Racial Justice
It took a sequence of recorded, highly publicized and shocking events to call our global attention to the BLM movement. These events included an 8 minute video of one individual, whose job in our society is to protect us, dehumanizing and then murdering a black man. Now we are being called to lean into our discomfort, our shame or guilt, and our own personal denial of racism evident in our complicity or inaction in the cause of anti racism. We are being called to listen to and read the stories that make us uncomfortable and learn about the history we were not taught in school. We are being called to slow down and sit in the awkwardness of not knowing what to do. Let’s lean in more. Each on our own, and together. This is a yoga practice at it's best.
Here are a few of the MANY resources sent in by Two Dog Community members some of whom have been advocates, allies, protestors, marchers for years in the cause for racial equity. This list is updated monthly with newly added identified under RECENTLY ADDED.
Please continue to send in resources.
-- Annie, updated 18-Nov-2020
- RECENTLY ADDED
- INTERVIEWS with AUTHORS and PODCASTS
- WHERE YOU CAN ACT
- MUSIC
- POETRY
- BOOKS
- VIDEOS and MOVIES
- Conversation with Pulitzer winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, 25-Aug-2020
- Oh, no Joe, not 'bad apples', editorial by Leonard Pitts, Jr, 4-Oct-2020, Seattle Times
- Made to Fail podcast, Chapter Five: Polluted in Arizona; project that follows the Navajo Nation in Arizona that has been devastated by COVID-19
- Brene Brown with Aiko Bethea on Inclusivity at Work: The Heart of Hard Conversations, 9-Nov-2020
- Modifying Silk Ring Theory for Allyship: How not to say the wrong thing' applies to solidarity in racial justice work too, 16-Apr-2018
INTERVIEWS with AUTHORS and PODCASTS
- How to be an anti racist with Professor Ibram X. Kendi, interview with Brené Brown – 1 hour
- Interview with Professor Ibram X. Kendi, with Jemele Hill at Aspen Idea Festival – 1 hour
- White Fragility with Robin D’Angelo, University of WA Professor – 1 hr 23 min
- Notice the Rage, Notice the Silence – 1 hour
Resmaa Menakem talks with Krista Tippett about the embodiment of generational trauma and how it lives and functions and what we can do about it.
- Resmaa Menakem and Robin D'Angelo in Conversation with Krista Tippett
- Daryl Davis, Ted Talk, Dec 2018: Why as a Black Man, I attend KKK rallies
- Talking About Whiteness, Eula Biss speaking with Krista Tippit
- Where Does it Hurt?, Ruby Sales speaks with Krista Tippit
- Center for Common Ground: Reclaim Our Vote Campaign
Works to fight voter suppression and encourage people to get out to VOTE; volunteer opportunities
Foo Fighters - Times Like These Quarantine mix, great song collaboration, turn it up loud
Coleman Barks translation of Rumi
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror
up to where you’re bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead
here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birdwings.
Beannacht ("Blessing")
~ John O'Donohue ~
On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.
And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.
Still I Rise written & ready by Maya Angelow translation of Rumi
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X Kendi |
| Stamped from the Beginning | Ibram X Kendi |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson |
| Mindful of Race | Ruth King |
| Radical Dharma | Rev. Angel Kyodo William, Lama Rod Owens & Jasmine Syedullah, PhD |
| So You Want to Talk about Race | Ijeoma Oluo |
| Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race |
Debby Irving |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama |
| White Fagility | Robin DiAngelo |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
- Being nice is not going to end Racism, Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Conversations with the Wise, Ruth King
- Deconstruction White Privilege, Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
updated as of 18-November-2020
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