Workshop- Exploring Spaces to Be: 'Mixed Race' Identities and Activism

Exploring Spaces to Be: ‘Mixed Race’ Identities and Activism
facilitated by Tomee Sojourner

TUESDAY evenings in OCTOBER and NOVEMBER
OCT 20 & 27, NOV 3 & 10 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB

Fee: $52 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants. Limited sliding scale spots available.
We regret our bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.
**PLEASE call to register**

This exploratory course will focus on how 'mixed race' folks navigate through everyday spaces, including activist spaces. Using a series of interactive activities and discussions, folks will engage in an exploration of the following topics: Intersectional identities; Interracial connections, dating and relationships; Building links to allies; and Working through oppression using tools of creative resistance.

Please note that the course content is shaped around the lived experiences of participants.
This course is open to everyone. Folks who have lived experiences and move in the world as ‘mixed’ race people are strongly encouraged to take this course.

Course Objectives:
* To offer a space for participants to reflect on being ‘mixed’ race and the complexities that arise as folks move in the world.
* To explore the visibility and invisibility of being ‘mixed’ race and the impact on interpersonal relationships, including dating.
* To look at the role of ‘allies’ and building links to those folks.
*To create innovative ways to work/move through oppression using creative actions.
* Participants will be encouraged to integrate their passion and creative expressions in the course in order to deepen their self-awareness

All participants will receive a course package with the required materials. No additional texts are required.

Participants are encouraged to self-identify any invisible and/or visible disabilities prior to the start date in order for the instructor to incorporate accommodations into the course, so that there is open and engaged participation. Large print course materials will be available.

TOMEE SOJOURNER is an innovative, forward thinking, dynamic, engaging, and results-driven Educator, Motivational Speaker, Artist and Emerging Film Maker. She has an M.A. in Social Justice and Equity Studies. Tomee brings over 13 years experience as a Trainer, Facilitator, Consultant, and Organizational Change Maker. Tomee is Managing Director and Diversity and Inclusion Strategies Expert for Sojourner Diversity Consultants. Tomee draws strength and grounding from her lived experiences, as a mixed-race, Black identified, masculine-identified, queer, feminist academic, moving in the world with a learning disability. Throughout her personal and professional life, Tomee has moved through adversity to create life-changing opportunities for herself and others.