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As a reminder, we are developing discussion resources for our 2024-2025 Inquiry Series on a quarterly basis. The text for this fall is the eighth chapter of Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly E. Hayes and Mariame Kaba, “Hope and Grief Can Coexist.” We encourage groups to spend the fall developing a practice of care to buoy the folks you are struggling alongside.
If this is your first year with BARWE, consider using our Inquiry Series 3 material. Alternatively, host an orientation meeting using our September material before moving on to the current month.
Don't forget to give us feedback!
BARWE Returns with a Virtual Event in January
It has been more than a year since our last event with Ann Russo and Carla Shalaby in July 2023, and we feel that it is time to gather again for another event.
As we enter another Trump presidency, we are preparing to push back against attacks on the communities and work we center: immigrants, trans people, and the critical and antiracist study of history.
For our event on January 15th, from 7:30-9:00 PM EST, we will create an opportunity to connect with folks from across the country in order to build community and consider our path forward. We will use our year’s theme (from grief to hope to action) to guide our conversations.
We hope you will join us. You can register here!
Primary Resource: This quarter’s discussions drew from Chapter 8: Hope and Grief Can Coexist in the book Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly E. Hayes and Mariame Kaba. If you have not already done so, we encourage all readers to purchase Let This Radicalize You from Haymarket books. The paperback book is currently part of a 40% off promotion and the e-book is currently FREE to download! The authors have also made the following supplementary resources available: Printable workbook and Discussion Guide.
Discussion Prompt: Thank you for exploring our collective grief and community potential deeply this fall. As we look ahead to our next quarterly topic of moving from grief towards hope, spend this month’s meeting imagining the world we are working together to create in the future.. (We adapted this prompt from the Let This Radicalize you Reading and Discussion Guide and Let the Radicalize You Workbook, which we have linked above)
Facilitation Reference Guide:
Feedback Form:
We have made edits to our feedback form, with the hopes that you find it faster and more straightforward to fill out. Please have one person in your group take a few minutes to fill out our feedback form to let us know how it went. It is very helpful to hear from you, and helps build our connection to you!
Thank you all for your feedback so far, please keep it coming!
Pass The Hat:
In addition to being accountable to our colleagues and students of color, we believe it is important to be financially accountable to people of color who are doing this work on a daily basis. Each month, we will recommend an organization led by people of color, in education and beyond, doing the work of pushing for justice.
At the end of each monthly discussion, pass a hat (or a box) and collect donations for the designated organization. You can then have one group member go online and donate in the name of your school. If you want, you can add “Building Anti-Racist White Educators” after your school name.
Over this three month cycle, we are encouraging you to donate to the organizations spotlighted in chapter eight of Let This Radicalize You. This month we suggest you donate to Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO). “The mission of LVEJO is to organize with our community to accomplish environmental justice in Little Village and achieve the self-determination of immigrant, low-income, and working-class families.Our vision is to build a sustainable community that promotes the healthy development of youth and families, provides economic justice, and practices participatory democracy and self-determination.”
If this is your first year with BARWE, consider using our Inquiry Series 3 material. Alternatively, host an orientation meeting using our September material before moving on to the current month.
Don't forget to give us feedback!
BARWE Returns with a Virtual Event in January
It has been more than a year since our last event with Ann Russo and Carla Shalaby in July 2023, and we feel that it is time to gather again for another event.
As we enter another Trump presidency, we are preparing to push back against attacks on the communities and work we center: immigrants, trans people, and the critical and antiracist study of history.
For our event on January 15th, from 7:30-9:00 PM EST, we will create an opportunity to connect with folks from across the country in order to build community and consider our path forward. We will use our year’s theme (from grief to hope to action) to guide our conversations.
We hope you will join us. You can register here!
Primary Resource: This quarter’s discussions drew from Chapter 8: Hope and Grief Can Coexist in the book Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly E. Hayes and Mariame Kaba. If you have not already done so, we encourage all readers to purchase Let This Radicalize You from Haymarket books. The paperback book is currently part of a 40% off promotion and the e-book is currently FREE to download! The authors have also made the following supplementary resources available: Printable workbook and Discussion Guide.
Discussion Prompt: Thank you for exploring our collective grief and community potential deeply this fall. As we look ahead to our next quarterly topic of moving from grief towards hope, spend this month’s meeting imagining the world we are working together to create in the future.. (We adapted this prompt from the Let This Radicalize you Reading and Discussion Guide and Let the Radicalize You Workbook, which we have linked above)
- Journal Prompt: Spend 5-10 quiet minutes sketching or writing about the world you are working toward for the children seven generations after you. After five minutes, reflect and share: What was that like? Hard? Surprising? Enlightening?
Facilitation Reference Guide:
- Set a day and time for your group to meet - Make sure to send reminders. If you’re meeting in person, snacks are always a good idea!
- Send this month’s journal prompt to your group. Look through the additional readings to see if there is another reading that might be better suited to your group and its interests.
- Prepare yourself to facilitate by reading through our Norms and Discussion Protocol.
Feedback Form:
We have made edits to our feedback form, with the hopes that you find it faster and more straightforward to fill out. Please have one person in your group take a few minutes to fill out our feedback form to let us know how it went. It is very helpful to hear from you, and helps build our connection to you!
Thank you all for your feedback so far, please keep it coming!
Pass The Hat:
In addition to being accountable to our colleagues and students of color, we believe it is important to be financially accountable to people of color who are doing this work on a daily basis. Each month, we will recommend an organization led by people of color, in education and beyond, doing the work of pushing for justice.
At the end of each monthly discussion, pass a hat (or a box) and collect donations for the designated organization. You can then have one group member go online and donate in the name of your school. If you want, you can add “Building Anti-Racist White Educators” after your school name.
Over this three month cycle, we are encouraging you to donate to the organizations spotlighted in chapter eight of Let This Radicalize You. This month we suggest you donate to Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO). “The mission of LVEJO is to organize with our community to accomplish environmental justice in Little Village and achieve the self-determination of immigrant, low-income, and working-class families.Our vision is to build a sustainable community that promotes the healthy development of youth and families, provides economic justice, and practices participatory democracy and self-determination.”