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Breaking White Silence Northwest is an all-volunteer project that aims to help white people gain white racial literacy, which we believe to be a keystone step–one of countless steps—in the lifelong process of building personal and collective capacity to take effective action toward racial justice. Our project plays a modest part in a vast network of activists, projects and organizations collectively working toward dismantling white supremacy.

We support the formation of free, facilitated groups of white people studying the writing of whiteness scholar Robin DiAngelo (primary text: What Does It Mean To Be White? [Revised Edition]). Each group functions as an incubator and springboard, providing brave space for white people to begin to understand their own positioning within white supremacy and to gain key resources to sustain meaningful antiracist action.

We also provide training and support for study group facilitators, helping them to build skills for personal and collective inquiry into systemic racism and white peoples’ complicity with and responsibility to dismantle white supremacy.

The Breaking White Silence Northwest Leadership Team is committed to holding an affinity space for each other to address our whiteness: to bolster both our individual capacities, and that of Breaking White Silence Northwest to address white supremacy.  

Finally, we strive to prepare study group participants to self-organize into long-term affinity groups in order to continue growing individual and group capacity to understand and address white supremacy; to engage in ongoing learning about systems of oppression; to build authentic cross-racial relationships; and to sustain a practice of learning from and taking action with BIPOC leaders to advance racial justice.