Below we share a few resources that are supporting us in co-creating an ecosystem of love, hope, care, and liberation during this powerful uprising in defense and celebration of Black lives in the midst of a global pandemic. We started this page to gather care resources during COVID-19, and we are expanding to include resources to support us in our work toward racial equity and liberation—as individuals, organizations, and movements—in this moment of grief, rage, hope, and possibility.
While there are resources of many kinds, we call out a focus on the arts and inner work because artists, culture workers, and inner work practitioners are so often at the forefront of imagining and bringing to life the world we want to live in, while simultaneously creating space to grieve, heal, rest, and understand our pain. We have compiled these resources from emails, texts, and calls we have had with partners as well as from social media. If there is a resource you’d like to see added, please send us a note.
Arts, Culture, and Inner Work Resources
- Envisioning Abolition Through Art by Monica Trinidad
- Nikkolas Smith’s art on instagram
- Keedron Bryant’s rally cry
- Pandemic – a song by Aisha Fukushima / RAPtivism
- Rest Supports Grieving: Grief Rituals by The Nap Ministry
- Meditation by Rev. angel Kyodo williams // Ten Percent Happier
- Tara-Nicholle Nelson’s piece on taking a sacred pause
- Social Spaciousness by Maura Bairley
- Wash Your Hands by Dori Midnight
- JUSTICE. DEFUND. ABOLISH: For Black Lives. Downloadable art from Just Seeds.
- Just Seeds Pandemic Care Package #1 and #2 of free graphics
- #songsofcomfort started by Yo-Yo Ma on Twitter
- We Are Each Other’s Guardians by Ashley Lukashevsky // Amplifier
- adrienne maree brown singing about handwashing
- Videos of folks around the world singing and playing instruments in community while physical distancing // Common Dreams
- #WashTheHate on Instagram
- Sweet Land opera is now live streaming (Aja Couchois Duncan, Change Elemental team member, is a co-librettist)
- Message from White Eagle, Hopi indigenous on 03/16/2020 via adrienne maree brown
- Resources for Artists // Springboard for the Arts
- Care Package: Poems, meditations, films, and other cultural nutrients for times like this by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
- Memos and Medicine for the End of the World as We Know it #1 by Cherise Morris
- Collective Love on Ur Desktop by By Us For Us and China Residencies
Additional Resources We Are Reading, Watching, and Listening To
- How to Support Black Leaders, Capacity Builders, Facilitators and Racial Equity Practitioners, ie. stop adding to their motherf&^%$ing burden baskets by Aja Couchois Duncan
- How to Manage When Things Are Not Okay (And Haven’t Been For Centuries) by the Management Center
- Racial Equity Tools’ COVID-19 resource list (an amazing compilation of resources divided up by topic)
- Digital Resilience in the Time of Coronavirus // Equality Labs
- Social justice in a time of social distancing by Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine
- Women of Color Will Save Us All by Erin Trent Johnson
- Decolonizing Community Care in Response to COVID-19 by Jade Begay of NDN Collective
- Demands from Grassroots Organizers Concerning COVID-19
- Five Demands for Emergency COVID-19 Survival (a poster to share)
- Now Is the Time for Philanthropy to Give More, Not Less by Aaron Dorfman and Ellen Dorsey
- Community Care During COVID-19: A Message To and From AAPIs by AAPI FORCE-EF
- Treating “Yellow Peril:” Resources to Address Coronavirus Racism by Jason Oliver Chang
- Leading Groups Online by Jeanne Rewa and Daniel Hunter
- Tools and Training for Online Facilitation // Tools for Change
- COVID-19 Community Resource Map
- Black Girl Magik COVID-19 Global Resource Guide
- Online Resources and Capabilities in Native Communities
- COVID-19 Resources for Immigrants
- COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now to Transform Our Future by Lori Villarosa
- Black Womxn For Mutual Aid Thread
- White Supremacy Culture, But Make it Remote! blog post and Instagram post by Joanna Gattuso
Messages from Change Elemental to Our Community
With Care, March 14, 2020
Holding the Simultaneity, April 6, 2020
The Time is Now, May 29, 2020
Photo credit: Pendarvis Harshaw