International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA) 2025 - Black Indigenous and People of Colour

Saturday, September 20th, 2025, this year's virtual 2025 ICSAA Zoom conference Black, Indigenous and People of Colour panel featured  Sri, Ramsey, and Hellena as panellists, joining Tracy (moderator).

Our panel discusses their experiences with BIPOC-centered and BIPOC-only meetings: why they feel the need for these gatherings and who should be included. Q&A and shares following the panellists' shares. 

BIPOC is one of many affinity spaces for AA groups/meetings where members, sometimes marginalized, can feel safe to discuss their whole experience of both addiction and recovery without fear - discrimination is not an outside issue. 

While some BIPOC meetings are closed to people who self-identify, this ICSAA panel was open; allies and others could attend.  

For future International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous events and other resources, visit https://aasecular.org 

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org