How to be an Ally: Anti-Oppression 102

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Sat, October 1, 2016

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT

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Meeting Room 1, Centre for Social Innovation - Regent Park

585 Dundas Street East

Toronto, ON M5A 2B7

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How to be an Ally: Anti-Oppression 102

Anti-Oppression 102 is a deeper dive and it is a follow-up to Anti-Oppression 101, which is a prerequisite for enrolling in 102. It's a more intimate session where we're capping the number of attendees at 20 people. If you attend both workshops (101 and 102), you can use discount "itsuptous" to get 15% off Anti-Oppression 102.

Anti-Oppression 102 is an interactive workshop focuses on exploring and identifying bias, oppressive behavior and inequity in personal, professional and community dynamics. Participants will engage with exercises and discussion rooted in lived experience to reflect on our beliefs and internalized behaviors as well as gain valuable tools for addressing inequity. The workshop will demystify the language of anti-oppression and explore social media and art as tools for knowledge generation and transmission. Participants will engage with the content through the context of their work and organizing as well as their personal relationships. Building on the previous workshop, the content will further dive into understanding internalized, interpersonal and institutionalized oppression.

Speaker: Rania El Mugammar

Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese Canadian Artist, Arts Educator, Equity and Anti-oppression Educator & Consultant, performer, speaker and published writer. Her work interrogates notions of home, belonging, womxnhood, blackness, migration/exile as they intersect with the identities and places she identities with. Rania is an advocate for womxn's rights, racial justice/black liberation and youth. Social justice anchors Rania's work as she is deeply committed to anti-oppressive practices and inclusion. She is the current co-chair of the Outburst Advisory Committee at the Barbara Schlifer Clinic, former curator of D’bi Young’s Watah School “Art(is)t Shaman” Series and a member of the Kandake Performance Collective. Rania is deeply passionate about gender/race justice and organizing locally and globally. She is the editor of SpeakSudan’s youth arts magazine and a contributor to a variety of blogs and publications.

What is "How to be an Ally" series?

As more and more of us confront the fact that the world is not equitable for all, it is crucial for us to understand what our role is in supporting one another and together, figure out the systems and society that work for everybody.

One step that we’re taking at the Centre for Social Innovation is partnering with educators who create safe spaces for us to ask questions, challenge assumptions, learn about what makes each individual unique and complex, and what makes us one. The kinds of questions we hope to ask include, but are not limited to: How do I check my privilege? How can we engage in a conversation around identity, oppression, and colonialism? How do we learn from each other? How do we work together?

How can I be an ally?

We have asked leaders from the CSI community to speak about their lived experiences, their professional practice building bridges among communities and to share their thoughts on how someone could be their ally. This will be followed by a facilitated Q&A.

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About the cost and accessibility

The cost was a hard piece for us because we want this to be accessible to everybody, but we also wanted to honour the time of our facilitators and attach fair value to their work and ours. The cost of tickets is still reflecting a discount from both parties, but we’re comfortable with this if it means more people can attend.

If you find the cost prohibitive, we are offering 5 bursaries for each session on a first come, first serve basis. You do not need to a provide an explanation and we trust that these bursaries will go to people who really require them. For bursaries or other accomodations required to attend the workshop (i.e., tokens, child minding, etc), please email Shilbee (shilbee@socialinnovation.ca).

We’re constantly learning and exploring different ways to live up to our value of creating healthy cultures and we’re always open to feedback!

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Will there be more “How to be an Ally” events?

We piloted How to be an Ally series in the summer with Rania (Anti-Oppression 101) and Rocky (Indigenous Awareness) and we were thrilled to see the overwhelming response from people wanting to attend the workshop. So we decided to roll out more How to be an Ally series repeating their workshops and covering other topics based on people's feedback on what they want to learn about. To get on the mailing list for future How to be an Ally series, submit your contact information by clicking here.

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