Stumbling Towards Wholeness: A Workshop for White Jewish Women with Facilitators Evangeline and Shira (Feb 2024)
A Jewish caucus space for all white Jewish women and genderqueer people who want to explore antiracism and Jewish identity. Facilitated by Shira Concool and Evangeline Weiss on Mondays Feb. 12 and 26 from 12:00-2:30pm ET.
**This workshop is online.**
The need for this space is palpable. We know that as white Jews our identities are complex--holding identity both as targets of white supremacy and as perpetrators of it. We know that avowed white supremacists don’t see us as white and spend a lot of time creating doctrine about us; we also know that these same people might see us on the street and murder a Black person in our names.
Increase the chutzpah - Increase Accountability
Whiteness is an exclusionary category. We are not supposed to be white and something else-- and yet, here we are holding the both/and, showing up in justice spaces with all of ourselves. We may be seen by others (and perhaps ourselves) as both the oppressed and the oppressor, holding both power and vulnerability.
In social justice spaces, we may want to minimize our Jewish identity. But that marginalization exists, and it’s directly related to white supremacy. We may feel we need to choose between our Jewish identity and our white anti-racist identity. Let’s not.
As white Jewish people in racial justice circles, we’ve created the space we have longed for, to unpack our concerns and questions about:
Our own identities and values as white Jewish genderqueer people and women
The impact of antisemitism and our ancestors’ stories of becoming American and white
How to confront, as Jews, the racism of Israel toward Palestinians
Experiences of antisemitism in racial justice/anti-racist spaces and ways to resist the pressure to choose between our Jewish identity and our anti-racist identity
How we feel these tensions in our bodies and how we can get even more brave in the work of showing up whole everywhere we are
This workshop opens up a space for us to identify the emotional, interpersonal, and political barriers in our own hearts and communities so we can move forward with our full identity in the fight for racial justice.
Ticket prices
As you're deciding what ticket to purchase, please check out this Ticket Guidance.
Redistribution Rate Tickets $425: We invite middle and upper-middle-class participants to purchase tickets at this level as an act of cross-class solidarity that enables more poor and working-class people to participate. Building together as white women across class is crucial to ending white supremacy.
Full Rate Tickets $225: These tickets are “at cost.” They enable us to cover the expenses related to putting on this workshop.
Working-Class Rate Tickets $125: We invite working-class people and students to purchase a ticket at our subsidized rate.
Free Tickets $0: If $125 is a true barrier to your participation, we invite you to register using a free ticket.
A Jewish caucus space for all white Jewish women and genderqueer people who want to explore antiracism and Jewish identity. Facilitated by Shira Concool and Evangeline Weiss on Mondays Feb. 12 and 26 from 12:00-2:30pm ET.
**This workshop is online.**
The need for this space is palpable. We know that as white Jews our identities are complex--holding identity both as targets of white supremacy and as perpetrators of it. We know that avowed white supremacists don’t see us as white and spend a lot of time creating doctrine about us; we also know that these same people might see us on the street and murder a Black person in our names.
Increase the chutzpah - Increase Accountability
Whiteness is an exclusionary category. We are not supposed to be white and something else-- and yet, here we are holding the both/and, showing up in justice spaces with all of ourselves. We may be seen by others (and perhaps ourselves) as both the oppressed and the oppressor, holding both power and vulnerability.
In social justice spaces, we may want to minimize our Jewish identity. But that marginalization exists, and it’s directly related to white supremacy. We may feel we need to choose between our Jewish identity and our white anti-racist identity. Let’s not.
As white Jewish people in racial justice circles, we’ve created the space we have longed for, to unpack our concerns and questions about:
Our own identities and values as white Jewish genderqueer people and women
The impact of antisemitism and our ancestors’ stories of becoming American and white
How to confront, as Jews, the racism of Israel toward Palestinians
Experiences of antisemitism in racial justice/anti-racist spaces and ways to resist the pressure to choose between our Jewish identity and our anti-racist identity
How we feel these tensions in our bodies and how we can get even more brave in the work of showing up whole everywhere we are
This workshop opens up a space for us to identify the emotional, interpersonal, and political barriers in our own hearts and communities so we can move forward with our full identity in the fight for racial justice.
Ticket prices
As you're deciding what ticket to purchase, please check out this Ticket Guidance.
Redistribution Rate Tickets $425: We invite middle and upper-middle-class participants to purchase tickets at this level as an act of cross-class solidarity that enables more poor and working-class people to participate. Building together as white women across class is crucial to ending white supremacy.
Full Rate Tickets $225: These tickets are “at cost.” They enable us to cover the expenses related to putting on this workshop.
Working-Class Rate Tickets $125: We invite working-class people and students to purchase a ticket at our subsidized rate.
Free Tickets $0: If $125 is a true barrier to your participation, we invite you to register using a free ticket.