A Space for Us: A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups

by Michelle Cassandra Johnson Narrated by Michelle C. Johnson

Overview

The first comprehensive guide for leading BIPOC affinity groups for challenging white supremacy, healing racial trauma, and taking collective action



Meeting in racial affinity groups is a common practice in anti-racist, social justice, diversity, and similar educational endeavors. These groups provide a structured space in which participants can explore how racism personally impacts them, process specific experiences of racism, receive validation and support from their peers, heal, and strategize next steps for challenging racism, white supremacy, and internalized racial oppression.



In A Space for Us, Michelle Cassandra Johnson brings her over twenty years of experience leading dismantling-racism work to provide the first affinity-group guide made for BIPOC communities. This essential guide will: provide an understanding of the racial hierarchy and how it has impacted Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color differently; define and share common manifestations of internalized racial oppression; define anti-Blackness and provide skills to interrupt and address it; share rituals, practices, and sample agendas for affinity groups; provide rituals and tools for healing in BIPOC affinity groups; and provide information about how to come back together as BIPOC and white people to strategize and take collective action.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

What an incredible body of work for Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color to center healing and restoration. Important. Vital. Right on time. A Space for Us is a beacon of light and love for those most directly affected by systemic racism who seek a way and place to heal, recover, and thrive. Read this book with your whole heart if you are ready for real, true liberation”
—Justin Michael Williams, author of Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us

“A Space for Us is a helpful introduction for bodies of culture seeking to facilitate affinity spaces for other bodies of culture in an inclusive, emergent, and trauma-informed way. Johnson provides tools, strategies, and practices for fostering the communal healing spaces that in turn ignite community action and liberation.”
—Resmaa Menakem, best-selling author of My Grandmother’s Hands and Monsters in Love

“A must-read for BIPOC facilitators and practitioners dedicated to furthering this type of healing work for the benefit of all sentient beings.”
—Dr. Sará Yafah King, CEO and founder of MindHeart Consulting

“BIPOC affinity groups are powerful medicine, and facilitating them calls for skill, discernment, and heart. Johnson generously shares a wealth of practices, stories, reflections, and questions that will shine light for both new and seasoned facilitators.”
—Victoria Santos, director, Center for Healing and Liberation

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159827234
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	12/12/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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