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 Thursdays Aug. 3, 10, 17 and 24 from 6:30-8:30pm ET.
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.
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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.
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All women and gender nonconforming, nonbinary and trans people, and all mixed-race and white-presenting people of color, 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.
As a mixed-class facilitation team, 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 $525: 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 $325: These tickets are “at cost.” They enable us to cover the expenses related to putting on this workshop.
Solidarity 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.
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Please visit our frequently asked questions.
For additional questions not covered the FAQ, please email evangeline@wearefindingfreedom.org and shira@wearefindingfreedom.org.
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I am a white, Queer Jew, raised upper class in the suburbs of PA, NJ and FL. As a relationship-builder, healer, spouse, and mama, I now call Georgia home.
I am grateful to the many communities who organized me into movement and called me in to work with my people. These include the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Atlanta Anti-Racist Organizing Committee, European Dissent, Southerners on New Ground-Atlanta, Showing Up for Racial Justice-Baltimore and Atlanta, and so many without formal names.
Trained as a mental health counselor (and working to decolonize that training) I bring an emotion-focused lens to all spaces that I facilitate, with a spirit-deep understanding that we are so much stronger when we are in authentic relationship with one another. I am a lover of all things oceanic and happy to provide dolphin facts at a moment’s notice.
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I am a white Jewish queer and anti-racist social change instigator with a twinkle in my eye. Raised in Scarsdale and the South of France, I have lived in DC and Maine, I presently call Greensboro, NC home.
With over 22 years of organizational development experience, I facilitate values-based capacity building to sustain leaders and organizations on a path towards greater wholeness, intentionality and purpose. After earning a Masters’ degree in educational policy studies, I have facilitated change in a range of settings – from social service organizations to non-profits and institutions of higher education. I am an artist and a poet, a community builder and a justice worker.