24 The Art of Allyship: Coming Alongside -- Jacoby Ballard

We’re talking with Jacoby Ballard about all things allyship, accompliceship, and solidarity. You’ll hear some captivating stories about navigating layers of identity, privilege, and oppression... a word about pronouns… how practice can help us ground the charge we feel when triggered... and whether we should we even be using the word ally, accomplice, or whose role it is to name those things anyway.

You can download the corresponding practice (24 Practice: Forgiveness Meditation) to join Jacoby in a guided meditation for forgiving ourselves and others.

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REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE:

Third Root Community Health Center www.thirdroot.org
The Icarus Project (and their Mad Maps model) https://theicarusproject.net/
Off the Mat Into the World http://www.offthematintotheworld.org/
Hala Khouri http://halakhouri.com/
Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) http://www.blackyogateachersalliance.org/

 

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Jacoby Ballard is a white trans queer person living in Amherst, MA until moving to Salt Lake City, UT this summer. He is a co-founder of worker owned cooperative Third Root Community Health Center in Brooklyn, and co-founder of Bending Towards Justice ( bendingtowardsjustice.org ), an organization that leads anti-oppression workshops and consultations for yoga communities, and leading teacher at Adhikara Yoga School ( Adhikarayogaschool.com ) in Western Massachusetts. Jacoby speaks on college and high school campuses, leading collective care, transformative leadership, and resilience workshops for campus activists, leaders, and queer communities and consults with organizations looking to either build more justice or more spiritual practice into their organization. Find his writing and workshops at www.jacobyballard.com
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THANK YOU:

This episode was edited by Jacob White

Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM

Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien

All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning