Candid Conversations Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey APR 27 3-5pm
-Redefining Wellness OPEN ENROLLMENT
Candid Conversations Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey APR 27 3-5pm -Redefining Wellness OPEN ENROLLMENT
Saturday April 27
3-5pm
Candid Conversations
Discussion:
Dream. Resist!
Part 2+ 3
Rest is a call to resist the grind.
Do you have 30 minutes?
Rest Is Resistance is a call to action, a battle cry, a field guide, and a manifesto for all of us who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture.
Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy.
In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice.
What’s worse than racism?
Talking about it.
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Join like-minded individuals who seek to
listen, understand and take action.
It starts with self and
spreads to our social sphere of influence.
Humanity= Compassionate behavior toward all people.
Anti Racist= Encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups.
Assimilationist= One who expresses the racist idea that a racial group is culturally and behaviorally inferior, believing that a racial group can be changed for the better by acting like another racial group.
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Humanity= Compassionate behavior toward all people. Anti Racist= Encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups. Assimilationist= One who expresses the racist idea that a racial group is culturally and behaviorally inferior, believing that a racial group can be changed for the better by acting like another racial group. 〰️
What does racism mean?
Accepting a Latino man who deputized himself
to protect a White neighborhood
against
an unarmed young Black boy
walking and talking
on his cell phone with skittles and a soda.
LISTEN TO
Ava DuVernay on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Vulture Review
Ava DuVernay’s Origin
White Americans participate in and witness social and racial injustices every day. It plays on mass, social and the main stream media: Internet, TV, radio, and the movies. Yet most of White Americans refuse to recognize it. Why?
It does not impact them.
It is not relevant.
Rinse and repeat.
Why do most Americans have little interest in dismantling a system that benefits so few at the expense of so many? Read review