This is why we must, must, must get ourselves together, white women in #globaldev, #philanthropy, #aid, #NGOs, #nonprofits, and #socent. /1

If you're resting in your privilege, not actively & continuously interrogating your own sources of privilege & power, then how in the hell do you expect to show up for other people facing even more struggles & oppressions, with entirely different lived experiences than you?! /2

White women, let's learn how to interrupt harm rather than create it. There are direct and immediate actions we can take as individuals and in our foundations, organizations, and agencies:

- We can make different hiring and promotional decisions within our organizations. /3

- We can get money to people closer to the issues and get out of the way.
- We can do that with unrestricted core funding.
- We can stop defining results in such WEIRD ways - Western, educated, and from industrialized, rich, and democratic countries. /4

- We can build clear lines of accountability within our organizations no longer just to our donors or boards, but to our partners "on the ground" and to the larger movements pushing for systemic change, led by people of color around the world. /5

- We can do our personal work, our healing work, all the while not centering the trauma and lived experiences of white people, nor the mental models of dominant white culture. /6

- We can ask other white people to learn how we recreate the systems created by colonialism and imperialism in our organizations.

We simply have to be more courageous. /7

White women, we cannot wait for recognition or praise to show up on behalf of anti-racism. Perfectionism is not more important than Black & brown lives.

Keep dislodging guilt & shame, and take action.

It’s not easy, and it’s possible, and it’s what we must do - right now. /8