For White Allies
Thank you so much for wanting to support BIPOC youth in our community. We’ve had a lot of questions about how White Allies can be involved in anti-racism work, so we gathered some resources from the allyship community. We encourage you to look into local opportunities for allies and to educate yourself on anti-racism.
Resources:
Local Opportunities
- Volunteer with YWCA Alaska
- Email Native Movement for Volunteer Opportunities
- Become an Ally of the Alaska Black Caucus
Articles
- How You Can Become an Ally to the Black Lives Matter Movement (Great Big Story)
- The Guide to Becoming a Black Lives Matter Ally (Southern Utah University)
- 10 Ways to Be an Ally to Indigenous Communities (Amnesty International)
- For white supporters of an anti-racist movement, being an ally isn’t always what you think (Alaska Daily News)
Reading
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
- How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
- Yuuyuraq: The Way of the Human Being, by Harold Napoleon
- Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
- A White Paper in the Spirit of a Red Paper: How to be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples