The Co-Conspirator’s Guide to an Antiracist Future
Make mistakes, fail forward, and build a restorative future.
Heal Your Way Forward is a guide for all those curious about healing their collusion with systemic harm. It looks at activism as a lifelong commitment rooted in intergenerational healing.
I ask you what do you want the world to look like in seven generations? If you’re here, I imagine the future you see is one where there is room for all of us—where no race, indigeneity, gender, or sexuality makes people the target of systemic harm. Building this future for our babies and our babies’ babies is the ultimate reason to engage in activism.
It’s been six years since I started Check Your Privilege, my online community for co-conspirators who hold white privilege. Like many of my fellow Black activists, I saw engagement drop after the end of the Great White Awakening of 2020. But I don’t believe in throwaway culture and I haven’t given up on white and white-identifying co-conspirators.
Healing is a practice that we can all learn. And being a lifelong co-conspirator means embracing your own shortcomings and finding your own reasons to learn (and unlearn), heal (and feel your way through the hurt), and commit (and recommit) to real change.
What’s in Heal Your Way Forward?
This book offers a strategy for healing your way towards restorative and transformative justice by:
Finding the sweet spot between shame and vulnerability.
Making room for white tears during healing.
Developing radical listening and lifelong learning.
Practicing the great act of recommitment.
Building a reparative future.