After taking last summer to rest and reflect, BARWE is back with another Summer Event on July 29. This year’s event will feature two panel discussions and ample opportunities to connect to folks doing antiracist work in schools and organizations across the country.
This year, BARWE's inquiry series focused on accountability as an integral part of dismantling white supremacy within ourselves, our relationships, and our communities. Our summer event will provide opportunities to hear stories of challenge and success, including the messy pieces of accountability, while amplifying the work and voices of people doing this work in their school and communities. This will be a space to bring people together from different parts of the country to make connections, learn from one another, and continue to reframe our personal and collective meaning of accountability.
As a Core team, we are envisioning ways to expand BARWE’s work beyond the inquiry series and into deeper alignment with our values of collective action. This event will be a chance to hear more about those shifts, the reasons behind them, and the work we hope to be part of in the future.
Read more below on the sessions we have planned for our July 29 event.
This year, BARWE's inquiry series focused on accountability as an integral part of dismantling white supremacy within ourselves, our relationships, and our communities. Our summer event will provide opportunities to hear stories of challenge and success, including the messy pieces of accountability, while amplifying the work and voices of people doing this work in their school and communities. This will be a space to bring people together from different parts of the country to make connections, learn from one another, and continue to reframe our personal and collective meaning of accountability.
As a Core team, we are envisioning ways to expand BARWE’s work beyond the inquiry series and into deeper alignment with our values of collective action. This event will be a chance to hear more about those shifts, the reasons behind them, and the work we hope to be part of in the future.
Read more below on the sessions we have planned for our July 29 event.
Our opening panel will feature a conversation with Ann Russo and Carla Shalaby, two authors who have inspired BARWE's work in recent years. Within their books Feminist Accountability and Troublemakers, Ann and Carla make it clear that we cannot just enter classrooms or organizing spaces with the hope of doing antiracism work. In this conversation, Carla and Ann will will explore ways that oppressive systems manifest in schools and organizations, and how re-envisioning our responses to harm can help build more equitable and just classrooms and communities.
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We are inspired by the Teach Truth movement, and the fight it is putting up in support of the type of education our young people deserve. We will be joined by Jesse Hagopian, Lisa Covington, Greg Wickenkamp, and Jane Cramer on a panel moderated by Tamara Anderson. Our panel includes educators from K-12 & higher ed, as well as parents, from Washington, Iowa, Arizona, and Pennsylvania who are working as part of the Teach Truth movement. They will discuss the attacks on the teaching of true and critical history taking place across the country, and how folks are and can fight back.
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You'll meet fellow educators from across the country, working in schools and beyond. We will have breakout groups throughout the session that will allow you to make connections, reflect on what was discussed in the panels, and envision how it can impact your work. This has been one of the most popular parts of our Summer Events in the past, and we will continue to emphasize it with this year's event.
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This event, like BARWE’s work in general, is designed to encourage white folks to take a more active and accountable role in antiracist work. We welcome educators of all races to participate. We acknowledge that we (as a group of white educators) don’t see it as our role to facilitate sessions on how to do antiracist work for Black, Brown, Indigenous, or Asian Folx.
While we have a free option to make this event as accessible as possible, we ask that you purchase your ticket, and even add an additional donation, if you are able. Summer Events are the only way that we financially sustain our work, and we appreciate your support. The money we raise goes to paying for our website and MailChimp, compensating panelists and invited guests, and financially supporting Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous-led organizations doing antiracist work.
While we have a free option to make this event as accessible as possible, we ask that you purchase your ticket, and even add an additional donation, if you are able. Summer Events are the only way that we financially sustain our work, and we appreciate your support. The money we raise goes to paying for our website and MailChimp, compensating panelists and invited guests, and financially supporting Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous-led organizations doing antiracist work.