BUILDING FEARLESS FUTURES

MISSION

WE ARE

The mission of Building Fearless Futures is to mitigate racial stress in our schools and communities. We are mentors, educators, healers, advocates, interventionists, coaches and activists promoting racial literacy and justice. We are dedicated to dismantling white supremacy culture and the patriarchy, in service to building an equitable, sustainable and joyful future for all.

Thank you to all who support,

BUILDING FEARLESS FUTURES 2020

Pushing into a paradigm shift and it’s important for us to model what we hope to see in the world. We are excited to support you, your institutional and cultural genius and your skill sets, to collaborate toward better practices, policies and happier lives. We build fearless futures by being personally invested lifelong learners. BFF doesn’t have an equity rubber stamp and is not sitting in the front of the room to pour finite solutions into passive vessels. The change we need in the world is as dynamic as we all/each are. Our best practices and best selves are built in community with each other.

WE BELIEVE

Every bit of human cultural expression that is not harmful to, or exploitative of others is inherently beautiful, valuable and honorable.

White supremacy culture is harmful to all living beings, limiting our chances of full self actualization and of building non-hierarchical, directly democratic relations and institutions.

Racist ideas and institutions are not natural but were built over time to benefit the wealthiest few, which means they can and must be purposefully deconstructed with work and practice.

Working and poor people of all identities, the world over, have the power and brilliance needed to build a sustainable future together.

WE WORK TO

Create and facilitate spaces that encourage deeper consideration of ourselves, each other, our history and current predicament. We strive to respect, support and empower every person, meeting them right where they're at, understanding that none of them picked their social location and none of them was around to build hundreds of years of oppressive conditions that have led to this point.

WE RECOGNIZE

Hate is a learned experience rooted in fear and misunderstanding.

It's nearly impossible to fear someone whose story you know.

Harm does not have to be intended in order to be felt.

Race is a social construct that affects our lived experience but has no basis in biology/physical science

White supremacy culture separates euro-american folks from history and our own ethnicities, grooming us to be insecure and insensitive.

Cultural/societal obsession with whiteness makes the experiences of folks of color invisible, while endangering our bodies and spirits.

In schools, students of color are harmed daily in interpersonal microaggressions and non-representation in curriculum and school staff, so we connect these students with mentors of color, resources and students in other schools. White skin privileged students are harmed by a lack of diversity in school curriculum, historical narratives and school staff as well. White skin privileged students also frequently harm folks of color directly, so we connect these students with white ally/accomplice mentors to help work through challenging conversations, models of accountability, resources and more representative historical narratives.