Are you a person who holds white privilege (see definition below) who wants to unpack the role of white supremacy in your daily life, and explore ways that you can leverage this privilege to dismantle it? Please read on, and fill out the survey link below! THE WHAT: “Part education, part activation, the Me And White Supremacy Workbook is a first-of-its-kind personal anti-racism tool for people holding white privilege to begin to examine and dismantle their complicity in the oppressive system of white supremacy.” THE WHO: “This workbook is for any person* who holds white privilege.** *Any person: Meaning persons of any gender-identity, including gender non-conforming persons. **Who holds white privilege: Meaning persons who are visually identifiable as white, white-passing or holding white privilege. Therefore this includes persons who may be biracial, mixed race, or white-passing people of color, who benefit under systems of white supremacy from having lighter skin color than visibly Brown, Black or Indigenous people.” For the purposes of avoiding hierarchical relationships impacting the group, this is meant for students only at this time. THE WHEN: The Anti-Oppression Work Group and The Alliance for Anti-Racist Social Work Practitioners are working together to host weekly meetings in March and April where a group can meet to reflect upon this journey and this work. These meeting will be held in Room TBD at the School of Social Work on the following dates: Monday, March 23 at 5pm Monday, March 30 at 5pm Monday, April 6 at 5pm HOW DO I JOIN? Please fill out the survey at THIS LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczZQouvzOx2vdrCJlN9yDk2zuHeezgZ7X_Ur4bcOI4NdKiWw/viewform
We ask that you complete this survey only if you can make it to at least 2 out of the 3 dates. Due to the demand for copies of the book, we are trying to limit participants to those who are dedicated to doing this hard internal work. We are hoping that most of you will be able to make it to all three groups. Once you complete the survey, you will be contacted so that a member of AOWG can give you a copy of "Me & White Supremacy." Please contact sswantioppressionworkgroup@gmail.com if you have any questions!