Sunday, March 10 – Exploring the Intersection of White Privilege and Gender Oppression in the Work for Racial Justice.

10am-12:30pm, Near 12th St BART in Oakland. $35-50 sliding scale.

To apply for registration, click here.

How have our experiences of gender oppression impacted our work in challenging white supremacy? What patterns are common among people socialized as both white and female? How do they show up or limit our anti-racist work?

In this highly interactive workshop, led by members of the White Noise Collective, we will explore how internalized sexism and heterosexism influences our work for racial justice. Through dialogue, presentation, Theater of the Oppressed, analysis of media images and other experiential activities, we will collectively investigate these intersections and the frequently raised themes of cultural appropriation, passive aggressive behavior, helping professions, and the ‘white women tears’ phenomenon. We will also look at the historic and current mythologies of white women as virtuous victims that are used to justify violence against people of color and co-create creative strateges for countering them.

The workshop is designed for people who at some point in their lives have identified as experiencing both gender oppression and white skin privilege, but participation is open to everyone. We welcome participants from a broad spectrum of racial and gender identities who gather to explore the intersections of whiteness and femaleness from their unique relationship to it.

This is an intermediate-level workshop; we expect participants to have some working knowledge of systems of privilege and oppression in order to participate.

Email with questions to whitenoisecollective [at] gmail  [dot] com