Antiracism Affinity Groups

What is an Affinity Group?

To advance racial equity, there is work for white people and people of color to do separately and together. Affinity groups (sometimes referred to as “caucus”) provide spaces for people to work within their own racial/ethnic groups. The roots of white body supremacy run deep and are implicit to our experience. It’s from our embodied experience, therefore, that our work begins.

We will meet communally once a month, and in our affinity groups once a month to work toward dismantling our culture of racism and create a culture of love, justice and liberation.

• The White Affinity Group and the Bodies of Culture Affinity Group meet at the same time on Zoom, in separate groups.
• Each person decides for themselves how they identify, White or Bodies of Culture (also known as BIPOC or People of Color). You can attend one or the other affinity group, but not both.

Antiracism Communal Group
1st Wednesday of the month • 7:30-9:00pm ET

Antiracism Affinity Groups
3rd Wednesday of the month • 7:30-9:00pm ET

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

You must register for the Communal Group meeting as well as the Affinity Group meeting if you want to attend. We request you commit to attending at least 4 consecutive groups, both communal and affinity group.

Through establishing a communal container we will tend to the ways white body supremacy moves through us individually and collectively. We will work together to dismantle and heal the impact of white body supremacy on all people. We will learn what it means to stay together, through the fire of trigger and when the impulse towards separation surfaces. This will be a collective learning space where we will lean into building culture through engaging embodied practices, together.

The “reparative” nature of these communal consultations for white bodies has meaning on multiple levels. First, a percentage of the income from these groups will go to returning land back to Indigenous and Black communities. Second, the healing of white body supremacy, within white bodies and white community spaces, is a reparative act that is our collective responsibility.

These reparations move forwards and backwards in time, repairing the impact our ancestors had on passing white body supremacy to our generation.

Simultaneously, in healing white body supremacy within this generation we break the chain and it is stopped from being passed down to future generations.