Our book club has been meeting for five years and we've somehow never read a book by anyone who isn't white and when I brought it up people got defensive and said they 'just want to focus on good books.' Now every meeting feels tense and I don't know if we can get past this or if some conversations just break groups apart.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group's unstated norms are being challenged by someone who cares about the relationships but can't pretend the patterns don't matter.
“Where Are You with Indigenous identity and land?”
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