Courageous Discomfort: How To Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations About Race and Racism

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About Courageous Discomfort

Hi! Welcome to our book, Courageous Discomfort!

We work in communities all over the country, from the most conservative to the most liberal, having candid conversations that bring people together and inspire a sense of hope.

We wrote Courageous Discomfort to help bring common sense and dignity to how we talk about race and racism. We do this by answering the 20 most common, uncomfortable, but critical questions we get asked about race and racism, including:

• Should I see color?

• What if I say something wrong?

• How racist does someone have to be for me to say something?

There is no perfect solution or script for every maybe-racist, sort-of-racist, or blatantly-racist situation we can find ourselves in. And that’s ok! Courageous Discomfort shows you how to handle whatever situation you find yourself in with skill, confidence, and dignity.

Thank you for being here,

Shanterra and Rosalind

Reflect, Write, Act: A Journal of 52 Purposeful Weeks of Allyship and Anti-racism Diary

by Shanterra McBride (Author), Rosalind Wiseman (Author)

A journal with a year’s worth of reflection and ways to empower yourself to become a better advocate, based on Courageous Discomfort, a book that asks and answers twenty common, uncomfortable-but-critical questions about racism.

In these pages, authors (and best friends) Shanterra McBride, who is Black, and Rosalind Wiseman, who is white, discuss their own friendship and tap into their decades of anti-racism work to provide a year’s worth of journaling prompts and space to reflect on your journey. The authors provide personal stories, invitations to think more deeply on one engaging theme each week, and lists of action items to take your anti-racism work further.

TIMELY BUT PERENNIAL TOPIC: Social justice is a longstanding, perennial issue but has entered the vanguard of national discourse in recent years. For anyone hungry for resources related to being an advocate for diversity and inclusion, Reflect, Write, Act provides an accessible, empowering place to cultivate growth and learning.

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