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Calling out the 'Wizard Behind the Curtain': the role of Whiteness in fomenting climate disruption and of racial justice as a guide through
This workshop is designed as a follow-up to the "Introductory" workshop addressing the essential relationship between racial justice, climate justice and sustainability. The focus of this day-long session is the deeper investigation of the role that Race, Racism and particularly Whiteness (White privilege and White supremacy) plays in how we got to this climate moment, how we understand this current climate reality, and how we work through this climate moment toward a fully human and racially just sustainability.
More specifically, the workshop dives more deeply into the elements of Whiteness by first exploring the general dynamics of biospheric interconnection and how Whiteness conversely thrives on disconnection and the illusion of rugged individuality.
We will then engage with more complex concepts regarding Whiteness through 1) personal interrogation of the impact of Whiteness on Native communities, Communities of Color and White communities, and 2) an exploration of the impact of Whiteness on organizational work regarding climate justice, environmental justice, and sustainability.
The workshop then specifically connects a critical race lens to our climate justice work through case studies, small group dialogue and analysis, and the examination of how whiteness has often misled the climate justice movement
and thwarted our efforts. The session then concludes with the offering of some concrete steps to take (in an ongoing way) to call out whiteness in our climate work and engage in climate justice, environmental justice, and sustainability work in more racially just ways.
While the focus of this workshop is largely on Whiteness, it is definitely not exclusively for White folks. Whiteness, via its corrosive, dominating, and dehumanizing social ideology and systemic framework, has impacted everyone in this society and thus this workshop is designed for a multi-racial community of voices and experiences.
To be sure this is not about White guilt or blaming White folks, and instead is about speaking truth to power in an effort to develop a more critical race lens. The session is open to those who have attended any one of the "introductory" workshops presented over the last year (including another introductory workshop on September 12th) and invites folks to bring materials from their climate work as fodder for examination while also coming with a willingness to engage.
This workshop will be facilitated by Heather Hackman. Heather received her doctorate in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2000.
For the next 12 years she served first as an Assistant and then an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Relations and Multicultural Education at St. Cloud State University. While at SCSU she taught courses on social justice and multicultural education, heterosexism and homophobia in the US, race and racism in the US, social justice education, and oppression and social change.
In 2005 she founded Hackman Consulting Group and began to regularly consult, both regionally and nationally, on issues of deep diversity, equity and social justice with an emphasis on issues of racism and whiteness, gender oppression, heterosexism / homophobia, and classism.
In 2012 she resigned from SCSU in order to consult and
train full time.Her most recent research and writing focus on issues of race, class and gender and their relationship to our understanding and response to global climate change.
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LocationThe Church Council of Greater Seattle (View)
4820 S Morgan St
Seattle, WA 98118
United States
Categories
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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Contact
| Owner: EquitableGreen |
| On BPT Since: Jul 21, 2015 |
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| Race and Climate Justice |
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