For White Accomplices

This space centers melanated people.

Our work is rooted in reclamation, ancestral memory, and the right to heal loudly in a world that often demands our silence.

If you’ve made it here and you’re not part of the melanated community — welcome. Your presence matters. Your accountability matters more.

 What We Ask of You

Being an accomplice isn't about charity—it's about redistributing power, unlearning supremacy, and supporting without centering yourself.

Here’s how you can show up:

Listen deeply.

Not just to understand—but to unlearn and witness. Our stories are sacred. Honor them without extracting from them.

 Respect the space.

This is not a place for saviorism, spiritual tourism, or passive observation. If you’re here, be here with us, not instead of us.

 Don’t offer psychedelic medicine.

EMC does not provide substances. Please do not offer or push medicine on our community. We are focused on education, integration, and healing—not underground distribution.

Support the work materially.

That means donations, sharing resources, amplifying melanated voices, and paying for the emotional, spiritual, and physical labor often extracted from our communities.

Be brave and speak up.
Sometimes allyship means being the only one in the room who says something. Educate those who look like you. Defend what’s right — especially when it’s hard or uncomfortable.

How You Can Support EMC

• Donate to help us fund free programming for melanated communities

• Buy merch: Bonfire Store

• Amplify our work on IG: @EMCMA and Facebook

• Volunteer your skills only if invited or requested (graphic design, logistics, setup, etc.)

• Attend our public events respectfully—with awareness and humility. When in doubt, ask.

Our Commitment

We will always protect the integrity of this space.
We will always center melanated healing.
And we will always call in those who are willing to do the uncomfortable, transformative work of dismantling the systems they benefit from.

This is not just about psychedelics.
It’s about restoring right relationship — to land, to lineage, and to each other.

 EMC’s Slightly Spicy Guide to Psychedelic Ethics + Safety

(For White Accomplices Who Mean Well)

So... you found yourself in the land of plant medicine, shadow work, and Spotify playlists with flutes. Welcome! Let’s make sure you’re not unintentionally microdosing on privilege while you're at it.

1. Am I entering sacred space — or trying to spiritually Airbnb someone else’s ancestral practices?

Pro tip: sage isn’t a universal passport, and good intentions don’t cancel out cultural theft.
Before you bring a drum, ask if you’re supposed to bring ears. Reverence starts with respect, not remixing.

2. Have I unpacked how my privilege might shape the vibe — or am I just vibing unchecked?

Spoiler: the medicine won’t do your anti-racism work for you.
Psychedelics amplify what’s already inside — including privilege, projections, and power dynamics. Show up aware, not oblivious.

3. Is this space designed with equity in mind — or am I just assuming it’s safe because I feel safe?

True safety isn’t about comfort. It’s about who has to shrink, translate, or disappear to stay in the room. If the space feels inclusive but only you are speaking freely, it’s time to reevaluate the design — not the discomfort.

4. Am I healing with integrity — or using plant medicine as a hall pass from accountability?

Your trauma is valid, but it’s not a get-out-of-responsibility-free card.
Healing is sacred — but not at the expense of others. The deeper the work, the more courage it takes to sit with the hard truths.

EMC’s Safety Checklist

(For White Accomplices Who Don’t Want to Fumble the Ceremony)

AKA: How to Show Up Without Taking Up All the Space

• ✅ Be a grounded presence — not a performative one
  If your vibe check turns into a monologue about your spiritual awakening, pause. Listening is a love language. Use it generously.

• ✅ Know your intention — and make sure it isn’t “to be the good white person”
  This isn’t allyship cosplay. Set an intention rooted in humility, healing, and collective care — not self-image maintenance.

• ✅ Leave your savior complex at the door (and your conch shell too)
  We don’t need rescuing. We need respect, space, and support. Be helpful without being heroic.

• ✅ Have an emergency plan that isn’t asking the nearest melanated person what to do
  Come prepared. Do your own prep. Know how to regulate yourself before asking others to carry your chaos.

• ✅ Keep your grounding tools decolonized
  Skip the Etsy sage bundles and “tribal” drums. Choose grounding practices that don’t rely on stolen culture.

• ✅ Respect consent and energetic boundaries
  Don’t assume touch, trauma-sharing, or “joining the circle” is always appropriate. Ask. Then accept the answer.

• ✅ Get support for integration — without turning BIPOC into your unpaid therapists
  You’re responsible for your unpacking. Talk to your people. Process elsewhere. Reflect, don’t redirect.

• ✅ Don’t mix substances unless your facilitator okays it — and you’re not trying to trauma-speedrun
  This is healing, not a biohacking challenge. Slow is sacred. Honor the pace.

Build Your Accomplice Toolkit

A curated reading list to help you unlearn supremacy, deepen awareness, and support without centering yourself.

(For When You Realize “Being Nice” Isn’t Liberation)

Understanding Whiteness & Unlearning Supremacy

• Me and White Supremacy – Layla F. Saad

• White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo

• Nice Racism – Robin DiAngelo

• Waking Up White – Debby Irving

• White Like Me – Tim Wise

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? – Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Uprooting Racism – Paul Kivel

 Decolonizing Wellness

• My Grandmother’s Hands – Resmaa Menakem

• Decolonizing Trauma Work – Renee Linklater

• Sacred Instructions – Sherri Mitchell

• Belonging – Toko-pa Turner

• The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk

Psychedelics, Justice & Not Hijacking the Ceremony

• Whitewashed Hope – Amandine Roche

• Psychedelic Justice – Kile Ortigo & Alex Belser

• The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized – Erna Hackett

Practice-Oriented Tools

• Do the Work! – W. Kamau Bell & Kate Schatz

• So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo

• A Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys – Michael, Moore Jr., Penick-Parks

• A Class Divided – Jane Elliott (technically a doc, but required viewing)

White Accomplices to Learn From

True accomplices don’t just talk about justice—they live it, risk for it, and show up even when it’s uncomfortable.

These white-bodied folks understood that liberation is a shared struggle. They didn’t ask for cookies. They didn’t center themselves. They acted. Learn from them.

Accomplices in Action

• John Brown – A radical abolitionist who believed in armed resistance to slavery and gave his life fighting for Black freedom. Not performative. Not passive. Just righteous.

• Anne Braden – A Southern white woman who was arrested and shunned for trying to desegregate housing in Kentucky. She dedicated her life to civil rights and anti-racism organizing.

• Viola Liuzzo – A Detroit mother of five who joined the Selma civil rights marches. She was murdered by the KKK for standing in solidarity with Black freedom fighters. Her courage lives on.

• Heather Heyer – A young paralegal who was killed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 while standing against white supremacists during the “Unite the Right” rally. Her last Facebook post read: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.”

• Jane Elliott – An educator who used the “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” experiment to expose white privilege and spark critical conversations about systemic racism in classrooms around the world.

• Chris Crass – A modern-day anti-racist organizer and writer who helps white people move from guilt into action rooted in collective liberation and feminist values.

• Tim Wise – A leading anti-racism educator and author of White Like Me, who speaks boldly about white privilege, structural racism, and the need for white folks to do the internal and external work.
  
  

The Work Continues

If you're white and here, this is your cue:
Don’t just learn from them—become one of them.

Show up, speak up, and back it up with real action.

 Presentation: "The Ceremony Isn’t About You — And That’s the Point"

White allies, this is your guide to showing up without showing out.
It’s about moving from allyship to radical integrity—learning how to hold space for melanated healing, not take it.

👉🏽 View the full presentation below to explore what it truly means to support without centering, honor without extracting, and participate without performing.

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