Upcoming Dates:
Offered through Common Ground Healing Arts. Register for the 6 week online course with them.
Goal: For people with Racial Privilege to identify their own anti-racist work based upon individual risk assumption and access to resources.
Please read these posts and the three following exercises before attending the workshop in order for you to get the most out of the discussion. To be added to my email list: Register here.
RISK: Read the Calculating Risks post, and reflect on what risks you feel most ready to take on.
RESOURCES: Read the Identifying Non-Monetary Resources post, and begin your own resource list
SMART Goal: Read what a SMART goal is and be ready to apply those lessons to your own indvidual goals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
Toni Barskile has been Black for 58 years in which she has attended prep schools in New Jersey, mastered White-approved “standard” English, figured out how to be perceived as “non-threatening” to members of the White establishment and teaching survival/ computer/ critical-thinking skills to Westhaven residents. Toni also works with the dialogue on race subcommittee on media relations, attends White Feather presentations sponsored by Trinity Episcopal Church, and provides web development/design assistance to the Truth Commission Ad Hoc Planning Group of the University and Community Action for Racial Equality.
Dolly Joseph has been White and lived in Central VA all of her life. Her ancestors colonized lands of the Moneton and Cherokee peoples in the Appalachian Mountains; her family’s generational wealth comes from the exploitation of Enslaved People of African descendants near Calypso, North Carolina. Dolly is an educator and community builder and was once named one of the “4 under 40” women leaders in Charlottesville. Now that she’s no longer under 40, she’s petitioning for a new honor of “5 under 50” to be started.
Toni’s superpowers include being able to call White people out on their ish without making them cry and the ability to identify structural racism in everyday situations and ways to dismantle it. Dolly’s superpowers include slicing to the heart of the problem, finding order and pattern in chaos, and getting people to do the thing they didn’t even know they wanted to do. Together, they will facilitate so that we will collectively be more ready to smash white supremacy.
