Unpacking Anti-Blackness in our Non-Black Families & Communities

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS CLOSED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST, PLEASE EMAIL MEHAK@VIGILANTLOVE.ORG

We are calling on our non-Black community members to join us over Zoom for a three-part community workshop series to deeper understand, unpack, and undo anti-Blackness in ourselves, our families, and our communities. This 3-part workshop is organized by Vigilant Love, in partnership with the Palestinian Youth Movement LA-OC-IE, American Friends Service Committee LA – Roots 4 Peace, Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation – LA, and Nikkei Progressives.

This community workshop series is a supportive strategy and practice space which will feature rare teach-ins, small group reflection spaces, practices, and resources for ongoing resistance. The workshops will center non-Black people of color, but white people are welcome as well.

Participants can join with groups (or "pods") of 3-4 friends, family members, colleagues, or community members. Participants who join as individuals will be paired with the same working group throughout the workshop series. Individual registrants will be separated by affinity groups ("white," "non-Black POC," or "mixed race.")

Part 1: September 4th, 7-9 pm

Part 2: September 18th, 7-9 pm

Part 3: October 2nd, 7-9 pm

*This is a three-part workshop where each session builds off the last. Please ensure you can commit to all three dates.*

For the cost of attendance, participants will receive:

• teach-ins from longtime, non-Black community organizers and leaders around anti-blackness & white supremacy, joint struggles for liberation, first-hand accounts of the impacts of Black power movements on other movements, and more.
• coaching on going deeper to notice and unpack our own internalized anti-Blackness, and that of our family and communities.
• supportive and open large and small-group spaces to reflect, strategize, and develop a plan to resist anti-Blackness on an ongoing basis in their own lives – both with the pods developed through the workshop and in their own larger communities.
• resource guides with recommended readings, practices, action items, glossaries, and more.

Proceeds from this workshop series will be donated to Students Deserve - LA and Haitian Bridge Alliance. A portion of proceeds go back to support the organization’s efforts to challenge anti-Black racism, xenophobia, and our campaigns for healing justice.

No one turned away for lack of funds. Please use the sliding scale ticketing option to pay as you can. If you are able, please consider donating more than the minimum cost of attendance to help someone else attend.