We begin with the spaces we’ve entered whether educational, religious or therapeutic and what it took to be there. Who were we allowed to be? What parts were left at the door? What does it mean to be “welcomed” into whiteness?
We turn toward the cumulative toll of microaggressions, code-switching, dislocation, and erasure. We explore internalised compliance and the rage or exhaustion it masks. Our concept of ethical trauma comes into focus here.
We experiment with re-storying and who we are outside the gaze. Drawing from intersectional and decolonial thought, we look at creative refusal, dignified boundaries, and unapologetic self-insistence. We affirm voice without performance.
We explore what it means to move forward differently: in our work, our relationships, our institutions. We close with practices of re-alignment, where solidarity is not tokenistic but co-struggled, and agency is not conditional on assimilation.
This four-week course brings critical race theory into embodied practice. Using dialogical methods, narrative reflection, and group witnessing, we move between structural critique and personal reclaiming. Readings may include Sara Ahmed, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa, and our own work on transraciality, hybridity, and epistemic misrecognition.
Each session includes:
