Course curriculum

  • 01

    Orientation Pre-Work

    • 3 Big Ideas

    • Weaving is a way living into your values

    • Frameworks are useful

    • Reflective journaling is important

    • Weaver Work #1: Invitation to a Brave Space

    • Weaver Work #2: Getting to Know You & Personal Artifact

    • Zoom Link

    • Before the orientation, we have a two requests from you:
  • 02

    Weaver Work: Preparing for Session 1 on March 27th

    • Tool: Liberatory Mindsets Part 1.pdf

    • Optional: Local Data on Inequities

    • Optional: Primer on White Supremacy Culture.pdf
  • 03

    Session 1 Materials

    • Session 1: Racism (March 27, 2021)

    • The Compass and Dialogue Cheat Sheet
  • 04

    Weaver Work: Preparing for Session 2 on April 10th

    • #1) Discussion

    • #2) What is intersectionality? (3 min)

    • #3) Intro to "Be, Block, Build"
  • 05

    Session 2: "BE" Materials

    • Session 2: "Be" (April 10, 2021)

    • Video: Connecting to Self & Interconnectedness

    • Definitions Internalized Oppression and Superiority.pdf

    • BE Characteristics and Examples

    • Book Recommendations for "Be"
  • 06

    Weaver Work: Preparing for Session 3 on April 24th

    • 1) Privilege Survey

    • #2) Discussion on intersectionality

    • 3) Journal Reflection on White Supremacy Culture
  • 07

    Session 3: "Block" Materials

    • Session 3: "Block" (April 24, 2021)

    • Video: Can Women’s Anger Save America?

    • Video: Audre Lorde Lesson-Uses of Anger

    • Blocking Characteristics and Examples

    • Tool: Responding to Microaggressions and Bias

    • Tool: Affirm, Counter, Transform

    • Tool: Six Steps to Speak Up

    • Tool: Detour-Spotting by Jona Olsson

    • A Troublemakers’ Guide: Principles for Racial Justice Activists In the Face of State Repression

    • Book: So You Want to Talk About Race by by Ijeoma Oluo

    • Podcast Episode: Love & Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger
  • 08

    Weaver Work: Preparing for Session 4 on May 8th

    • 1) Discussion on Blocking

    • 2) Video and Discussion
  • 09

    Supplemental Resources: History of Racism

    • Reading: Origins and Early History of Racism

    • Video: How America Invented Race

    • Website: Historical Foundations Of Race

    • Podcast: 1619 Series

    • Book: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds (2019)
  • 10

    Supplemental Resources: White Supremacy Culture & Oppression

    • Primer on White Supremacy Culture

    • Video: Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Privilege

    • White Dominant Culture and Something Different

    • Racism Defined

    • How Oppression Operates

    • Distancing Behaviors

    • Video: What a White Savior is and Why it's a Problem

    • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race

    • Video: The Cost of Code Switching
  • 11

    Session 4: "Build" Materials

    • Session 4 on Build_May 8th.pdf

    • Calling Out vs. Calling Forward with Justin Michael Williams

    • Characteristics of Build

    • A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair

    • Transformative Relationships