Anti-Racist on The Internet: How To Write About Race and Anti-Racism on Social Media [REPLAY] ($49)
“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn’t say them, couldn’t sort out my feelings about them, couldn’t keep them bottled inside me.”
-Octavia Butler, Kindred
Social media is not just a place to share photos of our food and families anymore. It is a classroom, a community center, a church, a rally. As our collective consciousness of race and anti-racism continues to evolve in this country, we have to take the time to understand not only what it means to speak out against white supremacy in our everyday lives; but also what it means to write about it on social media. Anti-Racist on The Internet: How To Write About Race and Anti-Racism on Social Media is a 75 minute online intensive dedicated to helping you create and improve your strategies for challenging whiteness and white supremacy on the internet.
We’ll cover:
Strategies for naming our emotional capacity in the face of white fragility.
Learning contemporary vocabularies of race, white supremacy, and anti-racism on the internet.
Leveraging our writing to challenge perfectionism mentality in the face of whiteness and white supremacy.
Identifying liberatory frameworks for addressing conflict and embracing vulnerability.
Mobilizing writing/blogging communities around race and anti-racism work.