OUR UNLEARNING
white settler people unlearning our whiteness imperfectly & collectively
Our Unlearning is a response to the local and global calls to action for white settler people to be actively anti-racist.
We are here to call other white people into relationships, accountability and community for collective unlearning, undoing, recovery and repatterning.
This work is necessary, uncomfortable, ongoing and life giving.
You are welcome and needed here.
The violence of Indigenous specific racism and settler colonialism continues to harm Indigenous peoples and the entire global majority as well as all of the lands and waters that sustain us. This truth is unsettling.
We have experienced the discomfort, purpose and depth of being that comes with this unsettling and we want you to join us.
Our Unlearning is a space in which to continue this necessary work.
Being a part of Our Unlearning has shifted how I see myself and the world around me… but this group has given me the confidence to disrupt the harm and embrace the healing”
— Julie, Our Unlearning Network (year 2 member)
Together we can deepen our unlearning and anti-racism practices.
The systems we work in are built to maintain the status quo and resist change. These systems make us feel like we are alone, and can only rely on ourselves.
We need relationships and collective action.
We need to stay uncomfortable and have a place to bring that discomfort.
We need to do the work and hold each other to account.
….that is the space we hold together in Our Unlearning.
Our Unlearning is a collective of white people who come together to regularly reflect on and interrupt their patterns of whiteness.
This is about rehumanizing through collective effort and care.
Our aim is to grow our collective stamina for dismantling systems and structures of oppression in ourselves, our communities and our organizations.
We support each other as white settler people to develop the self - awareness, knowledge, practices and care needed to interrupt whiteness and settler colonialism in ourselves, each other and society.
What we are grounded in.
the courage, vision, and tenacity of generation of people who have created the conditions for Our Unlearning to be here are countless.
Myisha T Hill
Audre Lorde
Kimberlé Crenshaw
adrienne maree brown
Sonya Renee Taylor
Tema Okun Kenneth Jones
Eve Tuck
Cheryl Ward
Vanessa Andreotti
Linda Thai
Resmaa Menakem
Barry Lavallee
Chelsea Vowel
ALOK
Myisha T Hill Audre Lorde Kimberlé Crenshaw adrienne maree brown Sonya Renee Taylor Tema Okun Kenneth Jones Eve Tuck Cheryl Ward Vanessa Andreotti Linda Thai Resmaa Menakem Barry Lavallee Chelsea Vowel ALOK
and so so so. many more Indigenous people, Black people, Peoples of colour and peoples of the global majority and their communities. Please click here for a page full of of references of who has come before us and made this work possible