Identifying & Uprooting Internalized Racism - Student Workshop

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Tuesday, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:00 PM  - 4:00 PM EST 

{ "name":"Identifying & Uprooting Internalized Racism - Student Workshop", "description": "https://ticketfi.com/event/4418/identifying-uprooting-internalized-racism-student-workshop\n\n\"\\u202f\\u202fIdentifying and Uprooting Internalized Racism\\n\\nA closed workshop for students who are Indigenous, Black, racialized\\n\\nFacilitator: Janice Jo Lee\\nLevel: Intermediate\\nThe participant:\\n\\n\\n\\tHas a basic understanding of the history of global colonialism and systemic oppression\\n\\tHas begun their learning about equity and anti-oppression frameworks\\n\\tWould like to further their knowledge and investigate their personal relationship to anti-oppression \\n\\n\\nWorkshop Description:\\nWho is Canadian? Why are racialized individuals constantly othered and made to feel we don’t belong? This workshop is for racialized students who are grieving the racism in the world while investigating our own internalized racism.\\nWe will detail our personal relationship to global colonialism, anti-Blackness and Indigenous colonization. We will question how mainstream Western culture assimilates us, socializes us into anti-immigrant sentiment, self-hate and losing connection to our heritages.\\n \\nWe will outline what kinds of power, privilege and barriers we have, and the Western ways of knowing we have subscribed to via the University. We will strategize on how we can engage in an ongoing process of decolonizing ourselves.\\n\\nWe will close by sharing ways we can work through our anger, pain and grief, and how we can be accountable to taking care of ourselves while fighting for our dignity and rights in the world.\\n\\nLearning Outcomes:\\n\\n\\n\\tDeepen our personal understanding of lived experiences of systemic racism\\n\\tIncreased self-knowledge, and skills to take care of ourselves\\n\\tIncreased confidence in speaking about racism\\n\\tAbility to better identify anti-Black and anti-Indigenous actions and ideas\\n\\tValue and understand the emotional experience of racist harm and grief\\n\\tUnderstanding when and how I can set boundaries according to my needs\\n\\n Participant Expectations:\\n\\n\\n\\tParticipants can expect to engage with fellow participants through discussion, with portions of the workshop provided in a lecture-style format.\\n\\tCameras and mics are are encouraged to be turned on for group discussions\\n\\tThis workshop is interactive. The workshop asks participants to write anonymously on a group chalk board (optional), or their personal computer\\/notebook. \\n\\n\\n \\nNote on accessibility: During this workshop, closed captioning will be available and any pre-workshop material will be sent via email to you closer to the date of the workshop. Should you need live captioning (CART services) and\\/or ASL interpretation, please let us know as soon as possible by emailing our workshop team. Because of increased demands for these services, we cannot guarantee them for participants outside of 7 days from the workshop, but will always do our best to secure them, even inside of 7 days. \\n\"", "startDate":"2022-02-08", "endDate":"2022-02-08", "startTime":"13:00", "endTime":"16:00", "location":"", "label":"Add to Calendar", "options":[ "Apple", "Google", "iCal", "Microsoft365", "Outlook.com", "Yahoo" ], "timeZone":"US/Eastern", "trigger":"click", "inline":true, "listStyle":"modal", "iCalFileName":"invite.ics" }