upcoming workshops.
Working with Difficult Ancestors
How do we learn from ancestors in a way that makes us able to be good ancestors for folks who come after? Some of the aspects of our various ancestries may feel difficult: ancestors who engaged in oppressive, violent, harmful behavior, for instance, tend to not be ones we want to identify with. Some of the aspects of our ancestries are exciting, nourishing, life-giving. And if we take seriously the idea, the evidence that ancestors’ experiences are passed down to all of us in the form of physical realities—bodily trauma, bodily capability—we have to take both the beautiful and the difficult in our ancestries into account. This is the move towards healing.
accountability: not so scary, after all
In this workshop, we generate a collective understanding of what accountability in practice looks like. We offer teachings from our own experience and learning from others in activist communities (including adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy and We Will Not Cancel Us, Mariame Kaba, and Shira Hassan’s Fumbling Towards Repair). In addition, we offer a set of guidelines for how to identify and frame accountability buddy relationships--the grounding practice that adrienne maree brown identifies as relationships for“working on excellence” (WOEs) together. We request participants purchase the three books listed above before the workshop and follow the authors’ own teaching and writing on social media. When confirming your registration, we will suggest reading a few selections from these texts before the workshop!
Register at the Google Form linked here!
accountability: not so scary, after all
In this workshop, we generate a collective understanding of what accountability in practice looks like. We offer teachings from our own experience, and learning from others in activist communities (including adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy and We Will Not Cancel Us, Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan’s Fumbling Towards Repair). We offer a set of guidelines for how to identify and frame accountability buddy relationships--the grounding practice that adrienne maree brown identifies as relationships for“working on excellence” (WOEs) together. We request participants purchase the three books listed above prior to the workshop, and follow the authors’ own teaching and writing on social media. When confirming your registration, we will send out a suggestion to read a few selections from these texts prior to the workshop!
Register at the Google Form linked here!
from charity to solidarity: building relationships
This workshop gives us an opportunity to deepen our consideration of power and privilege, and to connect that work with a conversation about models of social support. Particularly, we focus on the difference between a “charity” model of organizing support and a “solidarity” or “mutuality” model. Participants will have opportunities to reflect on their own practices and consider, together, what it looks like to move towards active practices of solidarity and mutual aid.
For sliding scale information and registration, click through to the Google form at this link.
thinking intersectionally about asylum and migration
Thinking Intersectionally about Migration and Asylum Work
In this workshop, we guide participants through the beginning stages of thinking intersectionally about the work of supporting asylum-seekers and refugees and, most importantly, about their own participation in that work. We will provide a Handbook of readings, diagrams, and worksheet exercises. Prior to the workshop we ask that participants watch Dr Kimberlé Crenshaw’s short video, "The Urgency of Intersectionality," available for free on YouTube.
For sliding scale information and registration, click through to the Google Form available here.