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Opening Conversation About Race
Opening Conversation About Race
Opening Conversation About Race
Offered monthly, the Opening Conversation About Race, created by WRJI and facilitated by trained professionals, provides a brave and supported space for self-reflection and learning with other Wellesley Alums.
Anti-racism is a lifelong journey: this is an invitation to begin or to re-ignite your anti-racism work. Whether you are a BIPOC or a white Alum, we welcome your participation - to enter the dialogue, to advance your learning process, to form community, to enhance the struggle for racial justice. Then try a Next-Step Program to continue your journey.
White Caller Crimes
Opening Conversation About Race
Opening Conversation About Race
A bi-monthly Next-Step Program, created and led by Tyree Oredein, '98, this workshop is an exploration of ways in which white folks harm BIPOC. Beyond blatant overt racism - slurs, defacing property, hate groups, and racially motivated assaults - do white folks understand how they regularly, unwittingly, or even quite intentionally, harm and endanger BIPOC folx? From dismissing the lived experience of BIPOC and “playing devil’s advocate," to involving police unnecessarily, learn about micro-aggressions and other dangerous acts, and how to counteract them.
How to be a Better Ally
Opening Conversation About Race
Anti-Racism Book Club: A monthly conversation
A Next-Step Program, created and led by Fiona Oliphant, '93.
Back by popular demand!
Intended for Alums to become more familiar with what it means to be an ally. We will explore in depth the most effective ways to offer support, to intervene, to plan and execute action with and in solidarity with BIPOC folx. Through presentation and discussion, white alums will have the opportunity to challenge themselves: what are you willing to give, and give up, to dismantle white supremacy? BIPOC are invited to grow stronger allyship with one another.
Anti-Racism Book Club: A monthly conversation
Anti-Racism Book Club: A monthly conversation
Anti-Racism Book Club: A monthly conversation
Join other Wellesley Alums each month to discuss an explosion of books being published on the history and experiences of racism. Deepen your understanding of the power of racism in America, its roots, prevalence, and ways to fight it - receiving professional guidance for your racial justice work. Professionally led by avid reader and skilled facilitator, Fiona Oliphant, '93, third Sunday of every month. Each month we will explore themes and learn from one another's viewpoints.
We recommend but do not require, that participants join a WRJI Opening Conversation, especially if you have not previously participated in frank conversations about racism and its impact on BIPOC.
Movie Nights! A bi-monthly Next-Step program
Anti-Racism Book Club: A monthly conversation
Movie Nights! A bi-monthly Next-Step program
Have you missed out on important movie experiences - or watched them and wished for a place to discuss and look more deeply into their messages? WRJI Movie Nights are designed to provide Wellesley Alums with a brave and supportive space to do just that. We will watch the selected movie together on Zoom (some humorous, some serious; some documentary, some fiction), then discuss its themes and portrayals for an hour. Anyone who has recently seen the film is welcome to join us for the discussion only, in the final hour. We recommend but do not require, that participants join a WRJI Opening Conversation, if you have not previously participated in race-focused conversations.
White Alum Anti-racism Training (WAAT)
Anti-Racism Book Club: A monthly conversation
Movie Nights! A bi-monthly Next-Step program
The WAAT program is an intensive study group, developed by a group of WRJI leaders over a 2-year period of intensive study and facilitated by them. WAAT consists of seven 3-hour sessions, scheduled 2 weeks apart, with reading and writing assignments in between. WAAT "graduates" develop a personal anti-racism action plan, identifying ways in which they can impact racial justice and continue their own journey.
WAAT is intended for those who have participated in the Opening Conversation or another anti-racism experience. Interested alums will be contacted as future cohorts are formed.