4-part series for white Jewish women & genderqueer people to deepen ourselves, build community, and strengthen our anti-racism.
Join us to ...
Begin to build community of white Jewish anti-racists
Explore our family, cultural, and political context
Dialogue about how antisemitism and anti-racism work connect
Recognize some of the opportunities in our spaces and places for building awareness, compassion, and action for ending antisemitism and racism.
We aim for a compassionate dialogue that supports each of us to reflect, share and grow.
→ Understanding more about how Jews became white and sharing what our families’ experiences of assimilation have meant for us.
→ Connecting white supremacy and antisemitism in order to work from a whole person place - wanting anti-racism work to be accountable when antisemitism shows up and wanting Jewish space to be accountable when white supremacy shows up.
→ Navigating the difficulty of talking openly with other Jews about zionism.
→ Engaging with intersections of anti-blackness in the USA with Palestinian rights and perspectives.
→ Reuniting with Jewish identity through social justice and building community with other white Jews doing this work.
6:00-8:30 PM EST Thursdays
Session 1: June 9
Session 2: June 16
Session 3: June 23
Session 4: June 30
7:00-8:00 PM EST Tuesdays (optional, casual)
Debrief meet-up: June 14
Debrief meet-up: June 21
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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 this thoughtful guidance put together from the organization Both/And.
Redistribution Rate Tickets $360: 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 $180: These tickets are “at cost.” They enable us to cover the expenses related to putting on this workshop.
Solidarity Rate Tickets $54: We invite working-class people and students to purchase a ticket at our subsidized rate.
Free Tickets $0: If $54 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 in the FAQ, please email info@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.