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Grapple Lab: Imagine This

This month's episode: culture of supremacy

A place of reflection and conversation hosted by People of Design to share practices and learnings and take them into our own communities. It is also a space of support, co-design and coalition building where we spark each other’s imaginations to grapple with emergent issues.

People of Design (POD), the project guide for this resource, is a co-design company founded by Queer and Trans people with disabilities to innovate inclusive practices of community co-design and to share research findings publicly and transparently.

This is not an academic exercise. We are coming together as community to grapple with what is going on in the here and now and how to support each other in the real time real actions of change. This is a space that values interdependence recognizing that we can all learn from each other. We can all help each other.

In this week’s lab we will grapple with the Culture of Supremacy. Defined as-"Characteristics that play out in organizations and are reinforced by culture. They are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being proactively named or chosen by the group. They promote white supremacy thinking that compromises relationships and collective action. Because of how culture functions, these characteristics impact everyone."

Kerri Kelly-Activist/Author-American Detox.

White Bodied participants will learn to play with the tool of taking on-going inventories of White Culture internalized beliefs. We will exchange ideas and practices around how to recognize behaviours and assumptions that continue to oppress other bodies of Culture (BIPOC) and how to change our perspectives and become more accountable to the harm we can cause.

BIPOC participants will form a separate caucus with Cesar Cala to discuss anything that came up with the sharing of internalized beliefs of White Supremacy Culture and any current community needs.

Imagine This is a creative commons resource that emerged from Calgary Art’s Developments (CADA) efforts to document, learn and instigate real actions of change in their Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and +Accessibility Journey. We are grateful for their willingness to make the findings and recommendations public and available to all.

The 2023 Grapple Lab series will happen on the last Monday of each month.

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JD Derbyshire

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