We’re Working On This Section
Our aim is to share what helped us get here, our misteps, & the ones we see most commonly among the diaspora
While we’re making this section and laying out what got us here, below are a few articles, blogs, and books we’d recomend as a starting place. They were really central to our work and conversations:
Glen Coulthard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson “Grounded Normativity / Place-Based Solidarity”
Aedan Alderson, “Decolonizing the Irish: The International Resistance and Entrenchment of the Global Irish Diaspora”
James Baldwin, “On Being White and Other Lies”, Black on White: Black Writers On What It Means to Be White
“Beyond Guilt & Privilege: Abolishing the White Race” Assembled by Viewpoint Magazine · 2020. See in particular Noel Ignatiev, “Without a Science of Navigation We Cannot Sail in Stormy Seas” (1969)
Noel Ignative’s blog and book “How the Irish Became White”
“Debunking the Irish Slave Myth” by Liam Hogan
Currently we’re working together on a project called SpitFire Press, for us unlearning whiteness and looking at how we replicate, embody, and support white supremacy culture is an essential part of cultural reconnection