Speaking Down Barriers Healing Us: Power & Privilege

Join us Friday April 1st for Healing Us: A Black Autonomous Space! You can use the following link and choose “April 1st @6:00 PM: Healing Us” to register for this FREE virtual event:

https://linktr.ee/SpeakingDownBarriers

Our month long theme for our gatherings in April is ‘End Oppression’. Our discussion this Friday will center on power and privilege and how (or even if) the two can be used to end oppression.

We are constantly seeing how power and privilege are abused and often lead to the oppression of marginalized folx. Even when we see minorities rise to positions of power (i.e. Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson) that power is challenged and often minimized by those in the majority with seemingly more authority. When we talk about the power dynamic, it is usually in the sense of the powerful versus the powerless. Privilege then becomes the vehicle of oppressive power, since those with it use it to pick and choose how their power is utilized to benefit themselves, their agenda and those who share their beliefs.

But what if we could flip the script or change that narrative?

Healing Us is a racial affinity space for Black folx to work together to heal internalized oppression and engage in wholeness, affirmation and liberation.

We look forward to having this discussion with you all on Friday starting at 6pm!