White Awareness 2021

Study Group

True North Insight offers a study and exchange program on racism for white people in our community in French and English.

Stay tuned for the 2022 release of this program, more information coming up soon!

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome and General Orientation

    • Introduction

    • Schedule and Zoom Link
  • 2

    Session One - April

    • Resources

    • Les ressources françaises
  • 3

    Session Two - May

    • Core Resources

    • Core Exercise

    • Optional Resources

    • Les ressources françaises
  • 4

    Session Three - June

    • Core Resources

    • Optional Resources

    • Les ressources françaises
  • 5

    Session Four - July

    • Core Resources

    • Optional Resources
  • 6

    Session Five - August

    • Core Exercises

    • Core Resources

    • Optional Resources

    • Les ressources françaises
  • 7

    Session Six - September

    • Core Resources

    • Core Exercise

    • Optional Resources

    • Ressource en français

    • Introduction to this session
  • 8

    Session Seven - October

    • Core Exercise

    • Core Resource

    • Optional Resource
  • 9

    Session Eight - November

    • Core Resources

    • Core Exercises

Facilitators

Co-facilitators

Coral and twinkle Shacker

Coral Short and Ryan “twinkle” Backer are both white settlers living in the unceded gathering place of the Kanien'kehá:ka, Anishinabe and Haudenosaunee - the island called Tiohtià:ke in Turtle Island, colonially known as Montréal, Québec, Canada. Part of both their ancestries comes from County Mayo in Ireland, and they like to reflect on how their ancestors may have known each other. Although they’ve identified as Irish most of our lives, they’ve been exploring their ancestry. They are actively unlearning their racism by attending workshops, organizing anti-racist book groups and engaging in anti-racist activism.