End-of-Summer Greetings, VTRID!
VTRID’s Social Justice Monthly Musings are starting up again this fall.
We will gather together on Zoom the first Monday of each month from 6-7pm.
Save the Dates for 2022:
September 5
October 3
November 7
December 5
Dates for 2023 TBD.
These gatherings are FREE and open to VTRID members.
If you know of any colleagues who might be interested in joining these meetings – all they need to do is become Vermont RID members! https://vermontrid.org/join-renew/
Gatherings will be held in ASL.
For our first session after the summer pause, we will take time to reconnect, co-create session agreements, and center ourselves with the following 2 prompts:
[Image Description 1: PDF with light blue background and black lettering in bullet point format – “15 Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture: Perfectionism, Sense of Urgency, Defensiveness, Quantity over Quality, Worship of the Written Word, Only One Right Way, Paternalism, Either/Or Thinking, Power Hoarding, Fear of Open Conflict, Individualism, I’m the Only One, Progress is Bigger, Right to Comfort. Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones, Dismantling Racism Workbook, 2001.”]
Link to Website Where This Image Was Found
Link to the full PDF by Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones
[Image Description 2: Light grey rectangular background with the phrase “disrupting white supremacy culture” at the center in black and white lettering. Surrounding this phrase are 13 imperfect circles of various colors with antidote actions in white lettering. Clockwise from the top-left: ORANGE-responsibility to discomcomfort; GREEN-open plurality; YELLOW-transparency; BLUE-flexible sharing; ORANGE-progress is multifaceted; GREEN-collectivism; BLUE-powerful sharing; ORANGE-both/and; GREEN-inviting courage; YELLOW-quality and quantity; ORANGE-embracing the new; BLUE-appreciative learning; YELLOW-go slow in order to grow]
Link to Lydia’s Website Where This Image Was Found
Also, if you haven’t already checked out this incredible anti-racism resource list from Vermont Network, please do.
Reach out if you have questions or curiosities you wish to discuss ahead of time.
See you Monday, September 5th!
~rae & elizabeth