Anti-Racism Dialog I with Tarah Fleming

This workshop introduces the art of dialog which guides and invites respectful and productive conversations about gender, race, class and sexual orientation to build our equity literacy. Equity literacy refers to the knowledge and skills that enable us to recognize and redress conditions that deny some people access to opportunities based on identity. Participants will practice identifying and responding to the subtle and not-so-subtle biases we encounter in the workplace and gain clarity on how racism lives at the ideological, interpersonal and structural level. Through the sharing of our own stories, participants will focus on building allied behavior, understanding the nuances of intersectionality and reflecting on how the “Privilege of Oblivion” impacts us all. Together we will practice disrupting behaviors that perpetuate racism, sexism, classism, while committing to the empathetic and consistent practices of conscious allied living in a professional setting.