AHUS Book Club with Author | Do Better

MEET THE AUTHOR, DISCUSS THE BOOK, and a Q&A: This AHUS community event will include a Q&A with the author Rachel Ricketts, surrounding her bestselling book Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy.

Space for this event is limited so make sure you reserve your spot today! At AHUS we encourage dialogue about and expression of needs that should be addressed. We look forward to a powerful discourse in community with you.

When: Monday, March 31st

Discussion led by an AHUS facilitator: 7:30PM-9:00PM EST

Where: Zoom

Event is free for AHUS Patreons in paid tiers and is sliding scale for all others. We will have select sponsored tickets for those who cannot afford to pay - please reach out to our team at teamahus.ny@gmail.com for support with this.

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DO BETTER is a revolutionary offering that addresses anti-racism from a comprehensive, intersectional, and spiritually-aligned perspective. This actionable guidebook illustrates how to engage in the heart-centered and mindfulness-based practices that racial justice educator and healer Rachel Ricketts has developed to fight white supremacy from the inside out, in our personal lives and communities alike. It is a loving and assertive call to do the deep—and often uncomfortable—inner work that precipitates much-needed external and global change.

Radical racial justice includes daily, intentional, and informed action. It demands addressing the emotional violence we have perpetuated on ourselves and others (most notably toward Black and Indigenous women and femmes), both as individuals and as a society.

Do Better provides the missing pieces to manifest practicable, sustainable solutions such as identifying where we most get stuck, mitigating the harm we inflict on others, and mending our hearts from our most painful race and gender-based experiences, plus much more.

This inspirational and eye-opening handbook is filled with carefully curated soulcare activities for getting into our bodies and better withstanding the grief, rage, and conflicting emotions that naturally arise when we fight against injustice. Culturally informed, secular spiritual exercises, such as guided meditations, transformative breathwork, and journaling prompt unpack our privilege, and take up the ongoing fight against oppression, while transforming our own lives along the way.

PRAISE FOR DO BETTER

“Holy Healing! What Rachel Ricketts offers the world in Do Better is a healing balm for a society that has long needed a new perspective and approach to an ancient problem that has been ignored, denied, un-addressed, and unhealed. Do Better answers prayers that many have prayed. Do Better offers a bold possibility for change and healing. Do Better offers a deeply sacred choice that we must all make at such a time as this.” -- Iyanla Vanzant, New York Times bestselling author and host of Iyanla, Fix My Life

“Rachel [has shared] a magnificent offering y’all…we ALL need this book. Yesterday, tomorrow. We’re gonna need this motherfucker as long as somebody’s breathing.” --Kiese Laymon, NAACP Image Award Winning + Bestselling Author

“Do Better, like Rachel Ricketts, is a true gift to this earth. Rachel’s devotion, wisdom, and guidance towards collective liberation is truly powerful and unmatched. To know her work is to know integrity, growth and elevated consciousness. Do Better offers not just that, but a path forward where we can personally and collectively dismantle systems of oppression, and do so in a way that is rooted in divine love. Because of this book and Rachel's mentorship I truly can say that I push myself to do better.” -- Maryam Ajayi, CEO and founder of Dive in Well

“Do Better is a clear, powerful, direct, wise, and extremely helpful treatise on how to combat and heal from the ubiquitous violence of white supremacy.” -- Elizabeth Gilbert, NYT bestselling author of Eat Pray Love

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachel Ricketts (she/they) is a queer, disabled, neurofabulous & multiracial Black woman. She is a spiritual abolitionist, alchemist & author of the international instant bestseller DO BETTER and the mindfulness picture book ALL I NEED TO BE for kids and inner kids alike.

As an intersectional social justice leader, collective mirror and healer, she envisions a world where queer, trans, mad, sick, crip, neurospicy and/or disabled Black and Indigenous folx are and feel deeply cared for.

Rachel is a 2025 NAACP Image Award & 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Nominee. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Today, the New York Times, Essence, The Root, People, Forbes, The Atlantic, Elle, Glamour UK & more.

She loves donuts, dancing, divinity & disruption (ideally all at once). Learn more at www.rachelricketts.com and @iamrachelricketts.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

🐦‍🔥(they/she) is a queer, disabled, non-binary femme of color who has survived multiple forms of abuse and violence. They live with AuDHD, C-PTSD, chronic pain, and other chronic illnesses.🐦‍🔥 believes in the power of community and sharing our stories to create change.

They are a creator, storyteller, writer, survivor leader, and yogi as well as space holder and facilitator. 🐦‍🔥is a fierce mental health & social justice advocate who focuses on topics spanning reproductive health, disrupting rape culture, healing & trauma, identity, and dismantling oppressive systems - all thru an intersectional and trauma-informed lens.

🐦‍🔥’s hope is that each of us goes on the journey to decolonize our minds and our spaces so we can truly fight for collective liberation for all of us. You can find them @mxmetamorph.