Reparative
Communal Consultations
for White & white passing Bodies:
Year ONE

Countering white body supremacy and the restoration of wholeness for Black, indigenous and all other bodies of culture requires white bodies take an embodied approach to consciousness and healing. Cognition is ineffective in dealing with white body supremacy because it shows up in the way we move through space and time. Any project, strategy, scheme or idea that is not embodied will be tossed into the cultural bonfire of “Curing Race-ism.” 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.

The “reparative” nature of these communal consultations for white bodies has meaning on multiple levels. First, 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.

Second, ERE is committed to the redirection of financial resources back to those whose communities were most impacted by white supremacy and colonialism. Part of our financial living practice is that a majority of the income from this event will go to Indigenous and Black led land based community projects across the globe, which focus on the preservation and restoration of their culture and communities.