Let’s Talk About Race | Part 1
Saturday, May 29, 2021 | 11:30 - 4:00 PM MST
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
The link will be given to confirmed participants 24 hours before the workshop.
Description:
Join Sunlight Vida for an afternoon of vulnerability and growth as we touch on white supremacy and how it affects everyone’s lives and ability to authentically show up for birthing people of color.
Let’s Talk About Race is a hands-on, interactive workshop. Come prepared to listen, speak, and learn from collective experiences. Space for this workshop is limited in order to foster a space that is safe for everyone to be vulnerable.
Part one will focus on two major components of white supremacy: white fragility and systemic racism. White supremacy hurts communities of color in more ways than you can imagine- including in the realm of reproductive health. Let's actively work on ourselves so that our words and actions as birth workers aren't adding to that pain.
Our healthcare system puts birthing people of color at higher risks for death and complications in childbirth. It is our duty, as birth workers, to be aware of how we can either be inflicting more harm or helping challenge these disparities.
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be antiracist” - Angela Davis