MEDIA
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
HEALING CONVERSATIONS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF ACTIVISM​
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David and Liza Rankow discuss the core elements of David's work and the intersection of healing and social change.
THE TAKING OFF THE MASK PODCAST
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What Whiteness Takes Away From White People
David Dean and Ashanti Branch discuss whiteness, masculinity, and what it means to "take off your mask."
THE SHIFT NETWORK​
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An Interview at the 2023 Ancestral Healing Summit
David shares a framework for anti-racist ancestral recovery for Euro-descendant people.
AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION
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A Virtual Fireside Chat with AHA
David Dean and Jasmine Banks discuss a model of anti-racism that prioritizes coalition building and class struggle.
FRACTAL FRIENDS PODCAST
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Understanding Our Shared Liberation​
David and Duncan Autrey talk about solidarity based organizing and finding one's "roots deeper than whiteness."
FUTURE PRIMITIVE PODCAST
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David speaks on the connections between white supremacy and capitalism and how to show white folks their stake in cross-racial organizing.
THE RE-ROOTED PODCAST
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An Interview hosted by Francesca Maximé on the Be Here Now Network
David Dean and Eleanor Hancock discuss their upcoming online course.
WHITE AWAKE
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Healing the Dominant Group, Breaking the Cycle of Violence​
What kinds of healing might we need to confront the systems of harm our ancestors put in place?
SELECTED WRITING
TOWARD SOLIDARITY​
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The Set-Up of Settler Colonialism​
From the U.S. to Ireland to Palestine ​
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How the rich and powerful have used settler colonialism to divide and rule over the global 99%.
BOOK CHAPTER IN LISTENING TO THE MOVEMENT
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Bringing a Racial Justice Lens to the Restorative Justice Movement
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How we can use the power of restorative processes to cultivate racial justice.
NASPA MEN & MASCULINITIES KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY
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Healing Men and Restoring Community​
Reflections on a collegiate project for men's transformation.
SELECTED TOWARD SOLIDARITY ESSAYS
WHITE AWAKE​
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Roots Deeper than Whiteness ​
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When we understand this story, we can more easily divest ourselves of the dysfunctional role we have been manipulated to play and join in the creation of a life-sustaining society.
The banner photo above, taken by Jack Rottier, is from the 1968 Poor People's Campaign, Martin Luther King Jr.'s final cause that sought to unite the multiracial working class to stand against the interlocking evils of poverty, racism, and militarism.
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