A core question the Closing the Gaps Network (CTG) team has been holding over the past year and a half has been, How might we test and practice the work that we are expecting of public servants who take part…
End White Supremacy Culture
Efforts to apply a racial equity focus to our work include how we relate to one another, as individuals and colleagues. As part of this effort, we seek to defy the norms set by white supremacy culture and share the ways we are practicing these antidotes to white supremacy. We hope these publications and blog posts will support your capacity to tackle white supremacy — in yourself and your organization.
Ending White Supremacy Culture: Racial Equity as a Process
We’ve come to understand that racial equity is a process rather than an outcome that can be checked off a to-do list. We seek to move beyond the binary thinking that suggests there is an “end” or that some people are “on top” or “more successful” when it comes to racial equity.
Just Say Black
I work in circles where we talk a lot about “people of color” (POC). We discuss what POC need to thrive economically, how to support POC with resources, and of course we interrogate how racism affects POC in the public…
Ending White Supremacy Culture: Honoring the Labor that Got Us Here
Living Cities has learned that to do racial equity work with authenticity, we have to embrace a new way of working. It has to start with us, at the level of individual staff and project teams. As we set about…
Ending White Supremacy Culture: A Resource for Naming What We Mean When We Say Community
Living Cities has learned that to do racial equity work with authenticity, we have to embrace a new way of working. It has to start with us, at the level of individual staff and project teams. As we set about…
Ending White Supremacy Culture: A Resource for Cultivating Abundance Mindset
Living Cities has learned that to do racial equity work with authenticity, we have to embrace a new way of working. It has to start with us, at the level of individual staff and project teams. As we set about…
Ending White Supremacy Culture: A Resource for Reckoning with History
Living Cities has learned that to do racial equity work with authenticity, we have to embrace a new way of working. It has to start with us, at the level of individual staff and project teams. As we set about…
All in This Together: Ending White Supremacy Culture Starts With Us
Living Cities has learned that to do racial equity work with authenticity, we have to embrace a new way of working. It has to start with us, at the level of individual staff and project teams. As we set about…
Finding Myself Beyond White Institutional Culture
As a white woman, my anti-racist work is two-fold: supporting people of color, particularly Black organizers, who are working towards new, equitable systems, and doing the internal work required of white people to break down how we have internalized racial…
White Women: It’s Time to Rewrite Our Narrative as Anti-Racists
As a white woman from a conservative Pennsylvania town, I was disappointed but not shocked to learn that 53% of white women voters chose to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. My hope at the time…