Conscious Anti-Racism

What is reproductive justice?

What is community care and how is it essential for social change?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Ukwuoma Ukairo from ARC Southeast, a reproductive justice organization that serves the southeast. Ukwuoma talked about the origins and evolution of reproductive justice, the importance of community care, and how Roe was *never* enough to protect reproductive rights. She also shared some incredible ways to support the movement and how to stay hopeful in these difficult times.

Bio: Ukwuoma Ukairo (she/they) is a Maryland native occupying space in the Muscogee land known as Atlanta, Georgia. She joined the Access Reproductive Care- Southeast team in July 2021 as a Programs Associate and recently transitioned into her current role of Caller Engagement Coordinator. She also leads Plan B: Southeast, the organization's rapid-response emergency contraception program. While she's not working, she's a yoga instructor and an avid reader.

LINKS

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab

National Network of Abortion Funds

Plan C Pills

Center for Third World Organizing 

Donate to ARC-Southeast

Twitter & Instagram: @ukwuomaukairo

Facebook: Ukwuoma Ukairo

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

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What is toxic positivity? How does it show up (and cause harm) in spiritual and wellness spaces?

Jill’s website tapping page: www.jillwener.com/tapping

Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive by Dr. Kristin Neff

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

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What are the culture, challenges, and contributions of Asian Americans? Why is the model minority myth a tool of anti-blackness?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Terry Park PhD, the founder and CEO of Maum Consulting, LLC, an Asian American Studies-based educational consulting business offering JEDHI (justice, equity, diversity, healing, inclusion)-minded online courses, curriculum assistance, and professionalization engagements. They discuss the importance of integrating mind, body, and spirit and how those are disintegrated in the process of assimilation, which causes people to lose access to their ancestral wisdoms. Park expresses how whiteness was a door that he kept hitting but couldn’t open; he realized this when he was a kid and thus avoided everything Asian. Listen as they make the connection between racism and intergenerational trauma.

Dr. Terry Park previously served as a faculty member at seven higher education institutions, including Harvard University, Wellesley College, the University of Maryland, College Park, Miami University, and San Quentin State Prison. Included on the list, “Inspiring Activists: Trailblazers and leaders in the community and in the struggle for social justice” by former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, Terry has participated in several national and community-based Asian American organizations across the U.S., including a stint as Executive Director of Hyphen magazine, an award-winning national print- and web-based publication on Asian American culture, politics, and arts. Raised in San Jose, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Seoul, Korea, Terry's free time includes getting to know his new home of Columbus, OH, scaling gym walls and pub menus, learning to make ice cream, and enjoying walks with his spirited mixed-breed rescue puppy, Miles.

LINKS:

You can learn more about Terry at terrykpark.com

Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Instagram: @maumliberation

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

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**This is an encore episode originally released in December 2020**

What does it mean to practice radical self-love? What are the downfalls of the term “anti-racism”? What is the importance of community in the fight for social justice?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Ruby Sales, a human-rights activist, public theologian, and social critic. This conversation addresses the interpersonal conflict of minorities hating everything about themselves that isn’t white and actively running away from their ethnic identities in order to claim whiteness. They dive into ways for other marginalized and oppressed cultures to claim their own identities without minimizing the realities of Black and indigenous peoples in America.

BIO:

Ruby Nell Sales is a nationally-recognized human-rights activist, public theologian, and social critic, whose articles and work appear in many journals, online sites, and books. Under the tutelage of Professor Jean Wiley, Sales joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960’s as a teenager at Tuskegee University and went to work as a student freedom fighter in Lowndes County, Alabama. Sales serves as the founder and director of the SpiritHouse Project. SpiritHouse roots its work today in exposing the extrajudicial murders of African-Americans by White vigilantes and police.

LINKS:

Visit her website: www.spirithouseproject.org

Facebook Group: Breaking the Silence Again Modern Day Lynching 

Email: [email protected]

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

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Why are minoritized groups not monoliths? How can growing up in multiracial environments shape one’s perspective on society?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Jay McAllister, an active participant and board member of CollaborAction, a theater company designed to use art as a medium to raise awareness and evoke change in the world around issues such as systemic racism, gender inequality and other difficult to discuss topics.

They discuss his journey to finding his voice about race related issues and his unique challenges to use his platform for change.

Jay McAllister is an extremely driven and intentional entrepreneur. At the age of 19, he cracked the code and founded Paragon Tech, a technology firm that for the last decade has enabled law firms and professional service organizations to eliminate an average of 10 hours from their staff's workweek, while increasing their revenue by 60%. Simplifying technology creates teams that are highly effective.

LINKS

Collaboraction:  www.collaboraction.org

Paragon: Paragonus.com

LinkedIn: @jaymcallisterit

Instagram: @jay2094

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/307196473283408

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LinkedIn at @jill-wener-md-682746125

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism.

LINKS

Conscious Anti-Racism Online Course: www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

Episode 31: Tema Okun

Dr. Tema Okun’s website on the Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/

The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

Fierce Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/307196473283408

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What does it take to be a good ally? What habits need to be unlearned and replaced with better approaches to racism?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Sunny Nakae, the Senior Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Partnership, and Associate Professor of Medical Education at the California University of Science and Medicine.

Dr. Nakae works with national organizations to increase access and equity in higher education for students and trainees from historically excluded groups that are undocumented, minoritized, underrepresented, and marginalized. She is known for her expertise in mission-driven, intersectional, holistic review processes. Dr. Nakae is dedicated to improving inclusive institutional excellence through co-liberatory equity practice. Her scholarship centers on access, equity, diversity, and outcomes across the spectrum of premedical preparation through faculty development in medical education.

LINKS

Genderbread Person

Her book: Pre-Med Prep

The Thin Book of Trust by Charles Feltman

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/307196473283408

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What does it mean to ‘hold space? How can you honor your own lived experience without getting into an ‘oppression competition’? What is the importance of “both/and” in justice and equity work?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill discusses the concept of intersectionality and how it relates to power and privilege in our society. She discusses what it means to hold space not only for one’s own lived experience, but also for the lived experience of people with different identities from our own, and that honoring one’s own experience should not take away from the lived experience of other people with marginalized identities. Jill talks about the importance of bringing one’s full self into any interaction, while at the same time being aware of how the dynamics of power and privilege come with us everywhere we go and how ‘centering oneself’ can cause harm.

LINKS

Episode 55: Internalized Antisemitism, Privilege, and White Supremacy

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/307196473283408

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What benefits can a company gain from DEI training?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews the founder of Empowered Leadership Cultivation, Trisha Daho. They discuss the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training and how bringing everyone to the table in an organization is necessary in order to make real change. Trisha also highlights her story of converting to Islam and addresses several misconceptions and assumptions about Islam.

With a law degree from Case Western Reserve University and a business degree from Miami University, Trisha brings practical results-driven insights as well as leadership acumen. She regularly writes and speaks on a variety of topics, including authenticity in leadership, high impact teams, creating growth cultures, diversity and inclusion, and many more.

Trisha is married to a Frenchman named Bachir, whom she met while on vacation in Paris. They plan to travel the world together as soon as he is permanently stateside. In her spare time, Trisha fosters Labrador Retrievers, travels to faraway places, and watches lots of foreign films.

LINKS

Empowered Leadership Cultivation website: https://empoweredlc.com/

Connect with Trisha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishadaho/

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/307196473283408

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What is internalized anti-semitism? What is the difference between white supremacy culture and white nationalism? How can white Jewish people hold space for both their own marginalization and their privilege in our society (which is at the cost of the marginalization of others)? What is the impact of sacrificing aspects of our own culture and identity to get closer to whiteness?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill discusses her awareness of her own internalized anti-semitism and how it has intersected with her anti-racism journey. She discusses how white American Jewish people can both benefit from white privilege and also be the target of anti-semitism and white nationalism, and how anti-semitism and racism are used by the Christian right in an attempt to hinder partnership between Black and Jewish communities.

LINKS

Podcast episode with Ruby Sales

Jill’s blog post about Israel and Palestine from May 2021: https://www.jillwener.com/blog/thethingimstillreallyscaredtotalkabout

Jewish Justice Circle: Awakening to Whiteness course https://ameliaparadise.com/jjc-a2w/

Resource for mapping and understanding Jewish trauma and internalized anti-semitism: https://www.transcendingjewishtrauma.com/

Article by Eric Ward about white nationalism and anti-semitism: https://politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism

This panel on Anti-Semitism in America is long, and it’s well worth the time: “Antisemitism in America” with Derek Black, Dove Kent, and Eric Ward. Moderated by Ilana Kaufman, Director, Jews of Color Field Building Initiative, December 2019

https://vimeo.com/463982121

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Our website www.consciousantiracism.com

You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.

If you're a healthcare worker looking for a CME-accredited course, check out Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare at www.theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism-healthcare

Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/307196473283408

Follow her on:

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Twitter at @jillwenerMD

Facebook at @jillwenerMDmeditation

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