Lucianne Walkowicz

Astronomer @AdlerPlanet, co-founder @JustSpaceOrg, multimedia artist. Ethics of Mars exploration, exoplanets, social justice. Opinions mine. Pronouns: they/them

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Recommended by Lucianne Walkowicz

Bonus round for my fellow white people: pre-order Layla F. Saad's #MeandWhiteSupremacy workbook! It comes out soon, and one of the best things you can do for someone's book is PREORDER IT (don't wait until it hits the shelves). Also, you need it: https://t.co/Gyw5N8ePvq (from X)

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. "Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."―New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining: Examining your own white privilegeWhat allyship really meansAnti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriationChanging the way that you view and respond to raceHow to continue the work to create social changeAwareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change. "Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action."―Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility