Join the White Labor Collective!
Done for DiDi will be able to expand the Done For DiDi - White Labor Collective (WLC) to become a collaborative, leaderful radical community-arts-activism platform for antiracism education over the next 3 years. Through the WLC, The D4D team takes on an influx of non-Black people on social media who want to learn about anti-racism and anti-oppression, and leverages their labor and money to work and provide monthly micro-funding, stipends, and seed funding for projects led by Black MaGes (Marginalized Genders). Black administrators and educators curate content, art, and programming. Most of all, they hold non-Black members accountable via reflection and guided response so that they can effectively practice the radical thought and action processes necessary to disrupt institutions of oppression. Learning is through the informed perspectives of people with lived intersectional identities (Black, Femme, non-men, LGBTQIA, GNC, and people living with chronic illness).
The WLC creates anti-racist and anti-oppressive learning spaces through a set of Community Agreements that provide a framework by which all community members and leaders are accountable to.
Regardless of position within the organization or as a part of the constituency, community members and leaders are given the support to address harm when it happens and provide the space for learning and accountability. The expectation of imperfection allows for people to learn and grow in community with each other and within their anti-racist practice. In addition, one of the community agreements is titled “Progressive Stack”, which asks folks to routinely do power analyses of their own and apply it to how they choose to participate and center/decenter themselves as necessary.
D4D works from understanding racism as a marriage of racist ideas and policies that produces and normalizes racial inequities.
We also operate from an understanding of the Four I’s of Oppression: Ideological, Institutional, Interpersonal, and Internalized. Ideological oppression refers to collective ideas in a society about what is “right” and “good” that perpetuate oppression. Institutional oppression refers to how institutions like the legal system, education system, public policy, representation, hiring and workplace policies, etc. perpetuate oppression. Interpersonal oppression refers to the actions, language, and behaviors shared between people that perpetuate oppression. Internalized oppression refers to a person’s internalized beliefs and biases that work to perpetuate oppression, like conscious/unconscious bias, and belief in “bootstrap” theory.
The WLC supports three main areas of programming:
Hands-On Anti-racism Learning, such as Processing Groups, Classes, Organizing Opportunities, and Accountability Structures.
Direct Reparative Giving and Community Building: Payments from the WLC participants support direct payments to Black women and non-men facing crises or organizing in their communities.
Arts and Cultural Programming: Poetry Slams and Workshops, Book Clubs, and Books and Breakfast programs.