Some of our guiding questions
- How do experiences of cisheterosexism, patriarchy, rape culture and trans and/or cis misogyny impact the work to challenge race privilege and systems of white supremacy?
- How do these two factors — the intersection of gendered oppression and white or white-passing privilege — interact, and what patterns and responsibilities are involved?
- How can we support each other to overcome our unconscious blocks in order to become more effective in our work?
- What effective, strategic actions can we take that can disrupt the interdependent systems of white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism & capitalism?
- How can we learn from our political and biological ancestors to become more aware of what has been passed down to us in order to heal from and transform how it impacts us today?
What Are We About?
Through writing, workshops, dialogues, and in coalition with other individuals and organizations, our work aims to:
Encourage exploration of what it means to navigate white supremacy and other oppressive ideologies through the experience of both gendered oppression and white or white-passing privilege, as these two identities/experiences often hold contradictory messages, expectations, and antidotes.
Deepen awareness of our unique relationships, individually and collectively, to the various dominant stereotypes, images, narratives and roles that are used to structurally uphold systems of oppression.
Collectively investigate patterns and struggles common among people at the intersections of white or white-passing privilege and gendered oppression that influence or limit the potential intersectionality of our anti-racist work.
Develop greater self-awareness, literacy, and accountability in order to show up with more integrity to the social justice movement work in which each of us is involved.
Our Accountability Process
Foregrounding the analysis of POC writers, organizers and scholars within our own analysis; taking action within POC-led coalitions; and responding to requests from POC organizers for strategic interventions.
We send out surveys annually through our listserv, facebook and website; we also send out surveys after workshops and specific projects.
Our core has formal advisors, and informal relationships with elders and others with whom we check in about our work and when challenges arise.
We openly accept and integrate any feedback we receive from community members who are aware of our work.
We strive to stay aware of current and historical analysis about the themes we explore; we also try to remain in a state of constantly questioning the work we do, the assumptions we make and the ways we function in the world.
We are an all-volunteer collective and do not profit financially from the work we do. We give a portion of our workshop proceeds to POC-led organizations doing frontline work or research related to the themes we are exploring. We focus on making these offerings to the organizations that we partner with in our work as well as to those from whom we draw our resources as part of a deeper process of relationship and movement building.
Funds we raise have been used to support
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who are we
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history
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