PICD is committed to facing and challenging racism in the contra dance community. If we’re to be a truly welcoming, inclusive and diverse community, we must first strive to be an anti-racist community. Each month, PICD will host a discussion based on sections from a book and supplemental materials that help us examine how racism is perpetuated through the living traditions in which we engage and cultivate antiracist world views and actions.

Join us

To participate in PICD’s Reading Group, simply buy or borrow the book, read the assigned sections while using the reading guide, engage with the supplemental materials, and participate in the Zoom discussion.

Prior registration is required.

We’ll be reading Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi from January through May 2021.

IN JANUARY

READ: Stamped From the Beginning: Prologue and Part I Cotton Mather (Chapters 1-6)
LISTEN: Humanity Archive: Episode #9 Sundiata An Epic of the Mali Empire and Episode #10 Mansa Musa Master of Gold

We’ll meet on Zoom Tuesday, January 19 from 7-9pm.