This online 5-part series of Finding Freedom will run September 6, 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2023 from 6:00-8:30pm EST.
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 free ticktes 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: For currently poor participants only. 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 info@wearefindingfreedom.org.
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As a high school student in the early 90s, I became an HIV/AIDS peer educator to combat harmful misinformation we were receiving from parents, schools, the media, and the government. That experience led me to the social work profession, where I have contributed to change efforts in youth programs, community development, education, mental health, anti-gentrification, and more.
I am now the director of a network focused on environmental justice and creating a society that values healthy communities above profit. I also strive to cultivate connections and curiosity as a Warm Data host with the International Bateson Institute. I grew up in a working-class household in Iowa with Western European settler ancestry. I am a cisgender white woman living near Pittsburgh – home to many Indigenous peoples, including the Monongahela culture – where I learn, hike, parent, practice letting go, notice what emerges, write, befriend trees, and strive to heal racialized trauma in myself, my family, and my community.
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For me, racial justice work is about showing up for my friends, family and loved ones while I answer a deeper call to deal with the legacy of white feminism. I’m fascinated by the hard, good work of breaking our habits to create new cultures and practices as white women & genderqueers. I’ve been shaped by leftist Christianity, queer and Black feminist and womanist scholarship and praxis, anti-fascist and anti-war organizing, embodiment work, and multiracial family relationships. My life experiences in Pennsylvania & the Rust Belt, the upper Midwest and the Bible Belt Mid-South, have all shaped how I see racial justice work and white supremacy. After several years in academia, I was fired for supporting a student mural of Assata Shakur and have spent time since 2015 as an AmeriCorps volunteer, a social worker, a home improvement store worker, an organizational consultant, and a project manager. I’ve made big mistakes, formed deep relationships and had big lessons everywhere I’ve been and I bring that curiosity and experimental energy to my facilitation. I also operate with deep listening, love of context and history, body awareness, music and humor in this work. I’m middle-aged and queer, with Western European settler ancestry and middle/ruling class family history. I live in Minneapolis on Dakota and Ojibwe land, where I enjoy domestic crafts like knitting & sewing, outdoor activities, studying astrology & tarot, and spoiling my five nephews near and far.