We carry within us the knowledge necessary to determine our practice of recovery. As a collective, as a community, we can support each other in our individual practices of recovery.
If women from all backgrounds are to heal, if diverse women are to be empowered to build the recovery practices that are right for them, then all women need to participate in the project of healing racism within recovery communities. Racism is trauma and has everything to do with recovery.
In the same manner that none of us is free until we are all free, can we really say that anyone has found recovery before we're all empowered to recover in our own way? It's impossible for real recovery to take root if we're perpetuating trauma for others.
Within our recovery work, we need to do our own personal antiracism work, which for white women starts with becoming aware of and dismantling the role of white privilege and other systems of privilege in our lives. We can heal individually, one woman at a time, but the overarching goal is to heal the collective.