Resourcing Racial Justice
Resourcing Racial Justice
FUNDED by:
2020-2021
YEAR
TAGS
Funded Project: Rest, Radical Leadership
LED BY
Roseanna Dias
Euella Jackson
Reflection, rest and community building to make social justice work more sustainable
Resourcing Racial Justice (RRJ) was a chance for us to honour the work we and people in our community are consistently doing to resource each other, often without being recognised.
Giving time and space to Roseanna as a Critical Researcher/Agitator to interrogate our approach to social justice work, as well as resource people of colour (POC) in our community to reflect on their own experiences. As well as take some time out to recover from them.
THE PODCAST
Listen to a conversation facilitated by Dawn Cameron between Roseanna Dias and Euella Jackson about their Resourcing Racial Justice work, recorded and edited by Prince Taylor.
Euella is the Co-director of Rising and Roseanna was the Executive Producer for our radical leadership programme, BE IT and the Critical Researcher and Agitator for Rising’s Resourcing Justice work.
As the funding comes to an end, Roseanna and Euella reflect on some of the learnings, challenges and opportunities presented in the work of resourcing racial justice in Rising’s community.
See this as a window to the work and part of an on-going conversation.
Reflection is a big part of our practice so we encourage you to explore how you can build reflection into your life and your practice.
Here are some prompts to get you started:
What radical actions could you take to support POC communities where you live and work?
How can you meaningfully and sustainably resource rest for yourself and for others?
What is one thing you’re taking away from what you’ve heard today and how can you share that with your community?
EVENT: THIS IS THE WORK WHOSE CULTURE?
Visual notes of the event by Jae Tallawah
OUTCOMES
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
We now regularly reflect - individually and as a team on our priorities, values, processes. We do this through booked out calendar time for reflection, August of Rest and quarterly team Action Learning Sets.
Paying POC to rest
We invited POC members of our community to ‘get paid to rest’ and randomly selected 10 people to receive £100 towards their rest. We also paid POC team members for reflection days together.
Reparative rest fees
We paid reparative rest fees to all community participants throughout the project and have embedded this across our work when individuals are asked to participate partly because of their lived experience.
CommissionING artWORK OF care
We commissioned artists to think about care and to help us understand how we can better care for them during campaigns (and work). This included our 2021 WhoseFuture campaign.
“It’s been a ridiculous year and a half for everyone, with work, feeling lost and massive blows to those we care about. I’ve personally been so engrossed in constantly working and keeping the ol’ nogging ticking just to keep myself busy and frankly…distracted. But this opportunity reminded me to take a break, it reminded me to have some well-deserved me-time. I deserve good health. I deserve to not have to work myself to the bone, and I deserve to be able to just stop, not do anything, and not feel guilty about it.”
– Recipient of Get Paid To Rest