Examining Whiteness – Exploring our Racialised Selves | ShantiWorks

Exposing, challenging and resisting white supremacy is not a new experience for People of Colour and Aboriginal, Indigenous and First Nations peoples – it is a daily reality in a world that is built and centred around whiteness. Without individual and collective activism there are limits to social justice practices and community building.
We invite you to join us, to talk about race – your racialised selves, practices and systemic racism. This workshop series will create a space to dialogue. To respectfully, and rigourously explore and challenge racism in our every day.
This workshop will use caucusing, as a dialogical process, to facilitate honest, robust, respectful collective conversations about race, whiteness, power and privilege.
Caucusing creates deliberate separate spaces for participants along racial identity lines to enable deeper reflection and dialogue. People of Colour will have space to speak openly about their experiences politically, personally and freely, without being under the gaze of white participants. White participants will work together to critically examine whiteness and its personal, professional and political impacts in a white-centric racist world. ShantiWorks’ process moves from caucuses to collective spaces for learning.
In the words of Grace Lee Boggs:
“Transform yourself to transform the world”
We hope you choose to join us in this anti-racist workshop series.

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