Interrupting Anti-Blackness in the Movement to End Gender-Based Violence

As a follow-up to our Plenary at the 2022 National Sexual Assault Conference, we are facilitating a workshop where we will go deeper into how anti-Black racism shows up in the Movement to End Gender-Based Violence and how movement workers and organizations can interrupt it.

Five Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will increase their capacity to recognize how white supremacy, whiteness, and anti-Blackness show up in organizational practice, policy, and culture.

2. Participants will increase their understanding of how white supremacy, whiteness, and anti-Blackness impact Black workers and survivors.

3. Participants will increase their capacity to demonstrate how these individual and relational impacts translate to and reinforce harmful community and societal level norms and practices.

4. Participants will devise strategies to interrupt harmful impacts of whiteness, white supremacy, and anti-Blackness in the movement to end gender based violence.

5. Participants will learn how to be mindful of fostering an environment that is conscious of interrupting anti-Black oppression while leaning towards practices that call in folks to be support and center with Black liberatory practices.

In the event that you would like to register more than 15 participants to attend, please email Darin J. Dorsey: darin@rootingmovements.org

As pre-homework for attendees, they are encouraged to read this article and listen to this NSVRC podcast, facilitated by Darin J. Dorsey with Valeriana Chikoti-Bandua.

We will be sending a link to access the workshop to all registered attendees on February 8th at 5 PM. We will likely reach capacity by then, but if we do not, any registrations that come in after 5 PM on 2/8 will be sent the link by 9 AM on Friday, February 10th.

This event will have ASL interpretation. Please contact us if there is anything we can do to meet your access needs for this event.

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We are seeking sponsorship from individuals and organizations that are interested in supporting this event. Sponsorships will create opportunities for scholarships and discounted rates. Please contact darin@rootingmovements.org or valeriana@necessaryinterruptions.org if you are interested in sponsoring this event or if you have any questions or feedback.

For more specific information about Valeriana Chikoti-Bandua | Founder of Necessary Interruptions LLC please check out: https://necessaryinterruptionsllc.com

For more specific information about Darin J. Dorsey | Co-Founder of rooting movements please check out: https://www.rootingmovements.org