Addressing Anti-Blackness Thread Gathering

Addressing Anti-Blackness in and Beyond Monthly Meetings

Saturday, January 23rd, 2021, 9:00am – 2:30pm, VIRTUAL

Co-hosted with Chestnut Hill Meeting

This thread gathering calls us to unlearn and be accountable to our past and present anti-Black ideologies, institutions, and behaviors. Knowing that this journey has no finish line, we bravely and humbly come together to move forward in our journeys with intention to continue to learn and unlearn, through interrogation, conversation and understanding in ourselves, our faith community, and with each other.

Disengaging from Comfort or Decentering Comfort

As Friends, we lean on our understanding that we need discomfort to learn to be present during silence, and this discomfort is a growing relationship with spirit. This discomfort is the same discomfort we are growing with and building a relationship with when we are uprooting oppressive thoughts and behaviors. Racism and white supremacy means some of us are more accustomed to discomfort than others, as well as that what is comfortable for some is dangerous and violent to others. We invite participants to acknowledge and address that tension and imbalance with us.

Schedule:

9:00am Optional worship – led by Chestnut Hill Meeting

10:00am Introductions & tech review

10:15am Walking with Anti-Blackness – Oskar Castro

12:00pm Optional communal lunch

12:45pm Interrogating and Weeding out Anti-Blackness – Tenaja Henson and Sarah Willie-LeBreton

2:00pm Resources and Closing

To register and read the facilitator bios – click here