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Week 1: Voting
Today's Challenge: How to be an Anti-Racist
Today is Day 1 of the YWCA 21 Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge. Thank you for joining us! You can also join our Facebook group where participants can continue the conversation in a safe space. We also encourage you to refer to the Aspen Institute's structural racism glossary as we go through the next 21 days. 

Participating with a group? Check out this toolkit for further engagement ideas throughout the challenge.

We want to thank Food Solutions New England for inspiring this challenge. They were the first to adapt an exercise from Dr. Eddie Moore and Debby Irving’s book into the interactive 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge, which they launched in 2014. We also want to thank our sisters at YWCA of Cleveland for sharing the 21 Day Challenge with us! 

We Challenge You To Take...
Watch this video that explains that, while race and racism have a real and significant impact on our lives, race is a social construct and one that has changed over time. None of the broad categories that come to mind when we talk about race can capture an individual’s unique story. For more information, read this article on how science and genetics are reshaping our understanding of race.
WATCH
Read this article defining Anti Racism and why the term is so powerful. If you are ready for a deep dive, you can listen to the podcast featuring historian Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be An Antiracist.
READ
Watch this video about the difference between being non-racist and anti-racist. YWCA's 21 Day Challenge will encourage you and give you tools to be an anti-racist because it doesn't require that you always know the right thing to say or do in any given situation. It asks that you take action and work against racism wherever you find it including, and perhaps most especially, in yourself.
WATCH

Other Action Items

  • Have you completed the 2020 Census yet? If not, you can by clicking HERE.
  • Register to vote in the 2020 election or assist someone else in registering by clicking HERE.
  • The League of Women Voters Knoxville/Knox County has put together a fact sheet for absentee voting. Click HERE to see if you qualify. 
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