Being stuck at home is no excuse for remaining stationary in your ally journey. Quarantine is the prime environment to focus on allying inward. 5 quick tips below:

Provoke your privileges: Checking your privilege is so 2000 and late. Don’t just mark your advantages; investigate them like you’re Angela Lansbury./1

What are aspects of your identity that you rarely consider? Examine what it means to be & have all the things that you are & own. Your privileges are not voids. They have critically influenced your lens on the world. You have months to figure out how./2

Unlearn history: Most of what we were taught in school — especially in the US — is revisionist nonsense. Take time to learn what really went down in your own backyard. Check out works by Ellen Wu, Ta-Nehisi Coates & Howard Zinn./3

Audit your Trusted Ten: Our versions of truth are highly informed by the messengers we follow. Audit the 10 people you follow most closely on social, the 10 podcasts you’re listening to, the 10 books on your nightstand./4

If the creators are all similar to you or to each other, shake up the rotation to diversify your truths. We can’t challenge our points of view if we exist in an echo chamber./5

Mail an apology letter: We’ve all harmed someone at some point with our ignorance & the USPS needs our patronage. Why not kill two birds with one stone by mailing an apology letter? Use this app for help crafting./6: https://lifehacker.com/this-interactive-tool-helps-you-craft-better-apologies-1820886516?eminfo=%257b%2522EMAIL%2522%253a%2522Q27XE9GZmNTJXoxQTxNHFcEFAz5azrR8%2522%252c%2522BRAND%2522%253a%2522FO%2522%252c%2522CONTENT%2522%253a%2522Newsletter%2522%252c%2522UID%2522%253a%2522FO_RCE_36B98D01-9A43-4962-B93F-B656354E5070%2522%252c%2522SUBID%2522%253a%2522106632226%2522%252c%2522JOBID%2522%253a%2522928600%2522%252c%2522NEWSLETTER%2522%253a%2522RACEAHEAD%2522%252c%2522ZIP%2522%253a%2522%2522%252c%2522COUNTRY%2522%253a%2522USA%2522%257d

Be still: I don’t know about you but this travesty has me extremely introspective. I’m examining who I am, who I want to be & how I want to serve. What a blessing to be still enough to reflect./7

Lean into this pause to reaffirm your values, articulate how practicing allyship enables you to live them and to double down on your commitment and plans to live a life that’s bigger than you./8

If you’re fortunate enough to have down time right now or are experiencing the luxury of being bored(!), consider expanding your self-care repertoire to include identity work. There’s no better time to build stamina, minimize blind spots and limit defensiveness./9

Our communities will show up stronger, more resilient and better connected once we’re physically together again./10