Assigning White Homework with Tori Williams Douglass

Note: This episode with Tori was recorded at the end of 2019. She is in full swing with her White Homework project mentioned in this episode.

Tori is a writer, speaker, and educator. She is the host and creator of White Homework, a course on race, racism, and restorative justice. She is also active on Twitter and Instagram.

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Episode Questions:

• What comes up for you when you hear the words “reparations”?

• What has inspired and influenced your view?

• How have you experienced the impact of colonization in your life?

• How have you upheld colonized thought or practice in your own life?

• How can you work to learn about and prioritize decolonization?

• What did you come up knowing about indigenous history and life?

• What do you now know about indigenous history and life?

• What can you do to keep learning?

• What messages about Blackness did you receive growing up? Where did that come from?

• How have you seen religious communities or actors perpetuate antiblackness and white supremacy?

• How have you seen religious communities or actors commit to antiracism?

• How can the religious communities around you more fully commit to the work of justice?

• What moral responsibilities do you have?

• How is this the same or different from the responsibilities you felt in the past?


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