Unlearning a Harmful Phrase— 'I Don't See Color'

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Johanny finds that unlearning is harder than learning.  She reflects on the time she spent digesting content while quarantining and what she learned from it. She also shares how she put that information to use.

Here are the resources she talks about in this episode:

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Cultish by Amanda Montell

Here are the Instagram activist and historians she continues to learn from:

@sincerely.Lettie
@rachel.cargie
@theghettoactivist
@mvmnt4blklives
@blairimani
@officialblackwallstreet
@inculturedco
@theblackhistorylesson
@blackwomenradicals
@blackpowercollective

The article Johanny wrote, encapsulating what she learned:
I Don't Believe You When You Say You Don't See Color

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