The Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative and the East Side Freedom Library in the Twin Cities invite you to a shared learning community circle.
Thursday, April 20 from 4:30 - 6pm Central / 5:30 - 7pm Eastern
Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands, writes that “White activists can deliberately reclaim whiteness. They can first call it out as the sleight of hand and the swindle it has always been. Then they can publicly redefine it as something caring, open, and grown up.”
What does it look like for white activists to reclaim whiteness as “caring, open and grown up”? As our society looks at the ways we all must heal from racialized trauma, how can white people who are committed to racial justice find an authentic path to liberation? Weave member Kate Towle’s novel, Sweet Burden of Crossing, is uncommon for its perspective of a white woman humbling herself to learn about the impact of white supremacy on her Black friend--and in her own life. Kate will share how white people must do their own work for racial healing to do less harm in a society that has prioritized white dominance. She will help us all reflect about building muscle for white agility over white fragility and our unique place in history to play an important role in dismantling personal and systemic racism.
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