Date: Sunday October 20th, 2pm – 4pm
Cost: Free
Event Description:
The Radical Liberation Project is an anti-oppression book club collective that seeks to dismantle generations of internalized oppression and white supremacy through engaging with the written word of bipoc, the lgbtqia+ community, and our allies. We celebrate literature that radically challenges the power status quo. Discussions will center our voices as we reclaim our identities in a safe and inclusive space. Join us and decolonize your mind! Because the revolution will be well-read, and in community.
This month’s dialogue circle is in collaboration with Frances Cathryn of wip projects. We are centering the text The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk – you are, of course, welcome to read/listen to the text in its entirety. But it’s a long one – so we are also providing scans of specific chapters. Keep an eye out for them here, or email us RadicalLiberationProject@gmail.com
Little ones are welcome! They are the next revolutionaries after all.
For more info about the Radical Liberation Project and to RSVP for this event please visit their website.
About Frances Cathryn
Frances Cathryn is an editor and community organizer who collaborates with others to shift how we define what it means to create valuable work in the world. Her work is about helping people build equitable, inclusive, and anti-oppressive spaces (both digitally and in-person) for creating, healing, and being. Through wip projects, Frances helps arts-based organizations celebrate creative expression and dismantle systems of institutional racism and patriarchy that exclude the voices of marginalized folks from the cultural conversation around art making.
“Language is one of the most effective ways to express ourselves, and maybe the most complex. It can uplift excluded voices or be a tool to keep them quiet. So what does justice look like for those who have been silenced? As someone who lives with a mental illness complicated by trauma, it means reclaiming my voice to empower others. I also benefit from ways I am included in the conversation, so I use my place to help folks overcome traditional barriers to access and express themselves without shame.”