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SUMMARY:Monthly Volunteer Mobilizing Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at our first volunteer meeting of the new year! WRJI has many volunteer opportunities for those committed to anti-racism activism. You can serve in developing and delivering programs – or help energize the operations that make them possible. We value your input\, expertise\, and your passion for racial justice. \nWhether you have a few hours a month to serve on a team – or several hours each week to lead one – please join us at our monthly Volunteer Mobilizing Meeting to meet other volunteers and learn more about specific opportunities.
URL:https://wrji.org/event/monthly-volunteer-mobilizing-meeting/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Understanding Microaggressions
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this 90-minute workshop on recognizing and working through microaggressions. If you want to cause less harm in your interactions with People of the Global Majority (PGM)\,  this workshop might be just the next right step in your anti-racism journey. This workshop will be led by Polly Talen ’77 from the WRJI team.  \nThrough interactive learning we will: \n\nDefine microaggressions and key related terms\nCreate better awareness of a range of common microaggressions and their impact on PGM\nInterrupt and address microaggressions\nProbe factors that prevent us from talking about and addressing microaggressions\nDevelop skills and tools we can use when the initiator or bystander of a microaggression\n\n  \nWhile all Wellesley alums are welcome\, those who have participated in a WRJI “Conversations on Race” session and identify as having white privilege are most likely to benefit.  \nUnderstanding Microaggressions is one of WRJI’s several sessions focused on anti-racism skill-building for white alums. Others include How to be a Better Ally and Interrupting Racism. \nAdvance registration is required. Please register by Wednesday\, November 29. \n 
URL:https://wrji.org/event/understanding-microaggressions/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disrupting Racism
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SUMMARY:How to be a Better Ally
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special Giving Tuesday program focusing on being a better ally. Created and facilitated by Fiona Oliphant\, Esq\, ’93\, this popular workshop is intended to help alums to grow and deepen their understanding of effective allyship in anti-racism work. 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.  \nThrough presentation and discussion\, white alums will have the opportunity to challenge themselves: what is your motivation?\, what are you willing to give\, and give up\, to dismantle white supremacy? BIPOC alums are invited to grow stronger allyship with one another and to share their experiences\, positive and challenging\, of working in alliance with well-meaning white folks.
URL:https://wrji.org/event/how-to-be-a-better-ally-2/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Effective and Respectful Allyship
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SUMMARY:Movie Night - Nappily Every After
DESCRIPTION:A woman’s identification with her hair can be a powerful thing\, but for a Black woman\, it is a tangled identity fraught with the ongoing effects of racism\, respectability politics and beauty standards that have historically marginalized our hair along with everything else. \nBased on the bestselling book by Trisha R. Thomas\, Nappily Ever After is the story of one woman’s breakthrough—and the hair that might be holding her back. \nSanaa Lathan plays Venus Johnson\, a beautiful and highly successful woman who seems to have everything except the ring she so deeply desires. When her longtime boyfriend refuses to commit\, she cuts him off—and her hair soon follows. Forced to find out who she really is behind the curtain\, Venus must face her insecurities and dismantle everything she thought she knew about herself\, hopefully growing into her truth in the process.       \n                                                                                          Summary: TheRoot.com \nThe discussion\, led by Tyree Oredein ‘98 will be centered around beauty\, heritage and identity defined by Black hair. Conversation will include the Crown Act and how hair discrimination is rooted in systematic racism. While the conversation will be centered around Black hair\, alums of all identities are welcome to attend and participate in the discussion. \nAdvance registration is required. Please register by Monday\, November 13. \n 
URL:https://wrji.org/event/movie-night-nappily-every-after/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Movie Nights
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