I am Kokayi Nosakere
A black man living in Oregon's Rogue Valley. Teaching pathways to greater humanity. Community organizer, Author, Speaker, and Workshop facilitator.
Since relocating to Southern Oregon in 2018, lifelong activist, Kokayi Nosakhere, has chosen to go on his healing journey, addressing the “on-going trauma of being Black in America.” At the 12th Annual Beloved Music Festival, four young geniuses invited Nosakhere to participate in the Black Indigenous Persons of Color (BIPoC) Sanctuary. It was a place where BIPoC attendees could recover from being surrounded by white people. It was the first of its kind in the festival environment.
The experience was so moving, Nosakhere documented it. When and Where We Feel Safe is the story of Beloved XII, centered from the BIPoC viewpoint. He returned to the Rogue Valley. Connecting to the Unitarian Universalists in Ashland, Nosakhere founded The Ashland BIPoC Sanctuary. The purpose is to do in Oregonian communities what was done at Beloved XII: provide a place to recover from being around white people.
Intergenerational trauma is happening to all those involved. Native people have their pain. Black people have our pain. White people deny their pain. We can change this.
Hopefully, your presence here is because you have heard the echo of my word in the world.
PERHAPS,
you received a physical, handwritten Love Letter from me? Or, you took an "End Child Hunger" pic? Or, you read one of my award-winning articles?
MOST LIKELY,
you encountered me personally from a social media message. However the method,
KARIBU!
You are in a special place where all are invited to go on the healing journey to walk out of white supremacy towards the next horizon of our collective humanity.
What can you expect?
This is a school of sorts, for those wishing to overcome the barriers to an accurate telling of American history currently flowing across the country's landscape.
Here, the (so-called) taboo subjects of race, racism, and whiteness are plainly spoken to.
You will learn, document by document.
- How the American Racial Caste System was crafted and maintained.
- How marginalized groups have resisted this caste system.
Intergenerational Racial Trauma
(Video Lecture)
33-minute video presentation with Kokayi Nosakhere delivering an interactive lecture on intergenerational racial trauma.
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Audiobooks, read by the Author :
- Processing Our Collective Trauma: Police Crimes Against Black Folk
- Emotional Labor: The Message of an Organic Black Intellectual
- Surviving Springfield: Seven Insights into Anti-Racism Work
- When and Where We Feel Safe, read by the Author.
