Community care · Anti-Racist Book Club
A monthly reading group for white-identifying folks doing the work of unlearning.
A long-running, structured book club for white people who want to engage with anti-racist scholarship and practice — without leaning on Black, Indigenous, and racialised people to teach them. Pay-what-you-can.
Why this group exists
Anti-racist work has often been outsourced to the people most harmed by racism. We started this book club because we kept watching white folks ask Black, Indigenous, and racialised people to do the labour of explaining their own experience — and we wanted to model a different default.
This is a study group for white-identifying folks: a place to read together, sit with discomfort together, push each other's thinking, and not require the room to centre our learning curve.
How it runs
- One book per quarter, with one 90-minute discussion per month.
- Hosted at the studio (the Sky Studio when group size requires) and online.
- Pay-what-you-can. Suggested $0–$15 per session; the suggested rate funds an annual donation to a Black or Indigenous-led organisation we choose collectively.
- Authors and selected texts are predominantly Black, Indigenous, and racialised — but the discussion is for white-identifying folks doing the work.
How to join
Email us at info@thebranchesyoga.comwith the subject “ARBC.” We'll add you to the cohort email list and send the upcoming reading.
Join us
A reading practice you'll keep up because the room shows up.
Most book clubs die in week three. This one's been going since 2018.