Women and Whiteness
Facilitated by Mary Ann Gallo and Mary Stancavage
A Monthly Group – Next Meeting – June 16
5:00 – 6:15pm PT via Zoom
A group for those who identify as women and White to explore how racial conditioning has impacted us and those around us.
We’re continuing to examine our whiteness and the subtlety of it privileged place in our society
. We will see how we have been shaped by societal and economic systems that are in place and which have formed our views and experience of race. We will work towards freeing ourselves from these ideas and for the collective liberation of all beings.
Following are topics and resources that we have been discussing over the past several months.
- June 16: We’re reading the next few chapters of White Feminism, and we invite you to watch this Angela Davis video on Bourgeois Feminism
- May 12: White Feminism – We’ll begin reading the book, White Feminism (Ch 1&2 if you have the book). You can also look at these videos, What is White Feminism, and The Problem with White Feminism. You might look at this article as well: Rafia Zakaria.
- Apr 21: The Work Continues
- Mar 24: Deconstructing White Supremacy – The Three Pillars of White Supremacy
- Feb 10: The way forward – seeds planted and jumping off points. Spiritual practice as a support for compassionate action.
- Jan 13: Our own history and relationship to race. Who are we? You can read the following articles if you have time: Reclaiming Our Indigenous European Roots and Embracing Rootedness and Radical Genealogy
- Nov 25: The continuation of this idea with further colonization, land theft, Jim Crow, redlining, etc. Watch the short video of Haunani-Kay Trask
- Oct 28: The invention of race and how it’s written into our constitution. For this session, please check out the following video: Birth of a White Nation, and article: Fellow White People, Let’s Unpack This
This group is drop in with no reservation required. No prior experience is necessary. Bring your willingness and an open heart.
Meeting ID 827 329 747
PW 005666