Resources for SiS participants to explore and share
Read, listen, explore
Here are just a few of our favorite resources from BIPOC leaders, including those that hold other marginalized identities, that redefine “outdoorsy,” defy colonial and racist structures in outdoor spaces/activities, and reconnect us with the earth as a place of healing and liberation.
LISTEN:
Reflections on the Black Experience Outdoors: A BBC interview with several black outdoorswomen from Boston during a hike in the Blue Hills.
Outside Voices Podcast: Features people with any intersection of identities that isn’t traditionally represented in the outdoors.
Guides Gone Wild: Cyntya Uriegas Latino Outdoors Interview with a volunteer leader from Latino Outdoors - Boston, one of the 2023 fundraiser recipients!
READ:
Melanin Base Camp Guide to Outdoor Allyship - Guide by Danielle Williams
If We Want Skiing to Be More Diverse, Let’s Stop Celebrating the “Ski Bum” - Article by Mardi Fuller
A Place of Freedom and Belonging in the Great Outdoors - Article by Mardi Fuller
We Can All Belong: A Transgender Thru-Hiker’s Reflections on the Long Trail - Article by Aubri Drake
Black Faces, White Spaces: Classic book on why African Americans are so underrepresented outside by Carolyn Finney
UnlikelyHikers.org - For adventurers who are plus-size and fat, BIPOC, queer, trans and non-binary, disabled, neurodivergent, and beyond.
DisabledHikers.com: Resource for disabled hikers
A conversation between Unlikely and the queer, African creator of Wild Diversity
MAP:
Find out who’s land you live/recreate on with this Indigenous mapping tool
FOLLOW:
@IndigenousWomenHike @LatinxHikers @MelaninBaseCamp @OutdoorAsian @UnlikelyHikers @OutdoorAfro @AntiRacismDaily @HikingProdigy @BrownPeopleCamping @BrownGirlsClimb @ChristenaCleveland @GreenGirlLeah @nativein_la
Kareemah Batts- Black paraclimber, cancer survivor, and amputee.
Field Mag: 125 BIPOC Outdoor Athletes, Adventurers & Photographers to Support
WATCH:
Mardi and the Whites: A peek into a Black hiker’s relationship with the White Mountains of New Hampshire
Wood Hood: An award winning short documentary film featuring a 15 year old kid participating in Camping to Connect a BIPOC-led mentorship program that teaches leadership, brotherhood, and inclusion in the outdoors
SUPPORT:
Field Mag: 65 Black, Indigenous & POC Outdoor Organizations to Support
Image: Mardi Fuller, author of “A Place of Freedom and Belonging in the Great Outdoors”
Go Deeper.
If you are ready to take your anti-racism work to the next level, there are many fabulous courses that can aid you in your journey. Here are two:
Liberating the Mind-Body-Spirit from White Supremacy by Christena Cleveland
For BIPOC and white folks. An e-course. “Dr. Cleveland presents 5 stages of BIPOC racial identity liberation and 6 stages of white racial identity liberation. For each stage, she shares research that uncovers what’s going on beneath the surface, a primary fear that keeps people trapped in that stage, a new intention toward which to pivot, and a spiritual practice to support the new intention.”
Healing from Internalized Whiteness by Sandra Kim
For white folks. A 10-week online training for white allies committed
to racial justice and collective liberation. Led by Sandra Kim, founder of Everyday Feminism and Re-Becoming Human. “This 10-week online training gives you the framework with concrete healing and co-creation practices necessary for you to stop being an unconscious pawn of white supremacy. While you'll always be racially white, you don't have to be culturally white and unconsciously perpetuate racism. You can learn how to re-become human - so you can be in authentic solidarity with other white people and people of color for our collective liberation.”
Image: Sandra Kim, creator of Healing from Internalized Whiteness
Note: These e-courses are for-profit. Summits in Solidarity does not receive any financial benefit from listing these courses, nor do the owners of these courses receive any benefit from Summits in Solidarity.