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the case for black community midwives
*This event will be in English with ASL/English interpreters provided. This space is for Black folks only. There will be spaces reserved for Black Deaf participants*
Join The Womanist Reader and Efe Osaren of Doula Chronicles on Thursday, September 16th (5pm-7pm EST) for a conversation on Black community midwives.
building black ecology futures
building black ecology futures" is an interactive, 2-part introductory communal study of what black ecology is and its liberatory potential.
• in part one (thursday, january 21, 2021, 6 pm-8 pm ET) dive into the ideological universe of Black ecological thought and learn how the tenets of black ecology undergird and appear in Black life.
• in part two (thursday, january 28, 2021, 6 pm-8 pm ET), join a community-based exercise to create Black ecology manifestos and consider the role of Black ecology in the project of black liberation.
this workshop series is facilitated by freweyni asress (zero waste habesha) and amirio freeman (being green while black), featuring JT roane.
decolonizing the imagination: the black artist & the black gaze
what is the work black artists must engage in towards decolonizing our imagination and our creative practices? join as they lay and the womanist reader for an evening of poetry, film, music and conversation as we question what it means to reconfigure our reality in the pursuit of a world that holds space for all life