Location:
Gold Conference Room
Dean's Suite, 2242
The School of Public Health
Women's* interactions across race, even for those with a commitment to racial justice, have historical and currently fraught dynamics that uphold systems of oppression. We often bring those dynamics into the workplace, the classroom, the hallway, the parking lot, the grocery store, the playground, our families, our meetings, our work for social justice, our board rooms. In honor of Women's History Month, this conversation between a multiracial group of women explores the common struggles and dynamics across race for women and femme-identifying people, focused on: How can we show up with and for each other at this historical moment? The dynamics of protecting power, colorism, whiteness, white supremacy, internalized sexism, and the patriarchy plays out in our relationships and erodes trust and compromises genuine cross-racial solidarity. This conversation will talk about what dynamics we see as common struggles, how we grapple with the tensions, and how we make decisions to sustain our commitment to and relationships with one another in the midst of these dynamics. When has it been hard to stay in relationship with one another and when has it cost us? Come explore this with us!
Everyone is welcome. Co-sponsored by the School of Public Health and the College of Education.
Conversation includes: Dr. Rossina Zamora Liu (COE), Jazmin Pichardo (COE), Dr. Nicole Cousin-Gossett (SPH), and Dr. Beth Douthirt-Cohen (SPH). Light snacks will be served, bring your own water.
*This conversation is for everyone across all gender identities and races. If you identify or sometimes identify or have identified as a woman, trans woman, or as femme, this conversation is for you. If you identify as non-binary or as a man, this conversation is for you. This conversation is for everyone and about everyone across all gender identities and expressions and across all races. Like all programming at UMD, today and historically back as far as at least the 1980s, everyone is welcome to this session.