CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE AND OPPRESSION 

Talk to your loved ones, your co-workers, and even yourself 

Conversing and processing 

We can cultivate interpersonal conversations about our socialization into oppressor and  oppressed roles using Listening Partnerships from Youth on Board (ListeningWorks Videos).  Listening Partnerships are a powerful way to practice self reflection in a relationship with one  another. They help prevent burnout and encourage mindfulness around our responses to  interpersonal and systemic harm.  

In addition, an important byproduct of listening partnerships is that they build stronger bonds  between partners and communities. A Listening Partnership is a simple conversational tool  where one partner speaks in response to a prompt for a given time while the other partner  listens with loving intent, and then partners switch roles.  

(Listening Partnerships document for more explanation and sample prompts) Imagining 

Create space in your own life and in your relationships with your family, friends, and loved ones  to ‘freedom dream’ https://freedomdreaming.commons.gc.cuny.edu/about/ a practice which calls  us to envision not what we are fighting against, but what we are fighting for.