This online 5-part series of Finding Freedom will run January 23, 30, February 6, 13 and 20 in 2024 from 4-6:30p ET.
Participants must attend Session 1 in order to participate in future sessions.
It's time to bring our full selves as white women into the struggle to end structural racism. The stakes could never be higher. Are you in?
How are we as white women contributing to white supremacy?
What keeps us from bringing our full selves to ending structural racism?
How can we move into action and convince other white women in our lives to do the same in our communities and at the ballot box?
Finding Freedom is a workshop that aims to deepen our individual and collective understanding of how we as white women are complicit with white supremacy, how we can make changes to live more deeply and consistently into our racial justice commitments, and how we can move ourselves and other people in our networks to join the fight for racial, economic and gender justice right now.
We use the tools of embodiment to bring our full selves--our bodies, minds and spirits--to the task of creating a new collective identity for ourselves as racial justice workers.
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All women and gender-queer, nonbinary and trans people, and all white and mixed-race folks, who are interested in exploring the intersection of white womanhood and white supremacy are welcome to join us. The categories of “white” or “woman” might not be exactly how you define yourself. This workshop may still be useful to you if you were socialized as a white female and/or you are perceived as one today.
We warmly welcome people of all class backgrounds. And we do not turn people away due to cost. We offer a sliding scale and also have limited scholarships available for people who need them.
This workshop focuses on United States history, context and current reality. Women from outside the US are welcome to join us, as long as you understand we will be using a US-based frame.
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As you're deciding what ticket to purchase, please check out our Workshop Pricing Options page.
Redistribution Rate Tickets $345: 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 $192: For currently middle-class participants. These tickets are “at cost.” They enable us to cover the expenses related to putting on this workshop.
Working-Class Rate Tickets $50: For currently working-class participants only. Your perspective and life experience are invaluable.
Free Tickets $0: If $50 is a true barrier to your participation, we invite you to register using a free ticket. Your perspective and life experience are invaluable. Limited availability.
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Please visit our frequently asked questions.
For additional questions not covered in our FAQ, please email meg@wearefindingfreedom.org.
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I first learned about the power of organizing for racial justice during backyard potlucks on warm Southern spring nights, and later around kitchen tables when the weather turned cool. What at first seemed to me to be informal gatherings later revealed themselves to be the well-organized and powerful engine of queer and radical change-making, fueled by visionaries who were associated with groups like UBUNTU, SONG, Critical Resistance, SpiritHouse, Generative Somatics, dRworks, the Stone House, and other communities striving for collective liberation. I learned that the structure of sharing meals, childcare, and other resources reflects a liberatory praxis, and that community thrives in a context of collective care and mutual aid. I learned the value of an intersectional approach to organizing and that this approach necessitated that any white folx involved remain committed to the ongoing unlearning and resisting of our deep conditioning into a whiteness borne out of white supremacy culture. During those years, I also trained as a clinical social worker, earned a doctorate, built a clinical practice, and learned to teach.
After 17 years in my first chosen home of Durham, NC, I embarked on another journey and found my way to the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts, where I now live in the woods with my family. I am still grateful for, and guided by, those honeysuckle-scented Durham nights spent strategizing and laughing in equal measure. As a white, queer, mostly able-bodied, and middle class cis-being, I am deeply committed to a lifetime of unlearning and resisting whiteness, and I strive to center this commitment in my work as a social work clinician and educator.
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As a white, cis-female facilitator and trainer working in racial equity, I work often with fellow white women and within the arts. I am also a visual artist, working primarily in sculpture and social practice, as well as a lover and supporter of artists everywhere.
As a member of Art Ain’t Innocent, a Durham, NC-based multiracial cross-class Southern arts visioning collective, I help generate productive conversations about how structures and assumptions within the arts sector perpetuate racial inequities. Through my community project Dirty White Matter, I invite others to examine whiteness and femininity while engaging in art-making, discussion and story-sharing. I have been a consultant in equity work with NC arts and social justice organizations and also as a trainer in my work with a national racial equity organization.
With a background in mindfulness, I incorporate an embodied approach into my work, creating conversations and experiences that allow internal reflection and body-based awareness of how these racial inequities are living in our bodies.
I greatly enjoy being in nature and spend as much time as I can hiking, backpacking, canoeing, camping and being out amongst the trees. I am proud to call Durham and North Carolina my home and am excited to invite more white women into this work.