As educators, we promise to nurture and protect our students. This sacred promise proves impossible to uphold when our Black students and their parents come under fire unjustly and without consequence time and again. It has never been more important for educators to speak up and defend the...
UWSA’s Unlearning Circles provide an opportunity for primarily white identifying people to come and explore white supremacy culture and our role and responsibilities in undoing racism. We rely heavily on the principles and steps of undoing racism promulgated by The People’s Institute for Survival and...
(en español abajo) SAVE THE DATE! On Saturday, June 13 starting at 10 a.m., everyone is invited to join the City of Austin and Travis County public health officials in a VIRTUAL conversation to discuss ways to improve health outcomes among our most vulnerable populations....
2020 is a challenging year. We’ve been grappling with some urgent and complicated challenges as a country. Later this year, we’ll have a presidential election. Meanwhile, urgent problems like climate change remain high in public awareness—but sometimes it feels like polarization is higher than ever,...
Join Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir as we explore questions concerning election security for the July 14 runoff (and special election) and the November 3 general election. How have vote-by-mail ballots been processed in the past? What problems, if any, have arisen and what has...
On June 16th, Bill McKibben will be joining Solar Austin to talk about his work fighting the most pressing environmental issues of our times. Bill McKibben is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around...
Youth + Adult Conversation| Three dominant paradigms of Black femininity that originated in the South during the period of slavery have persisted into present-day culture, which “paint Black females as hypersexual, boisterous, aggressive, and unscrupulous”: • Sapphire (e.g., emasculating, loud, aggressive, angry, stubborn, and unfeminine);...
Have you attended a protest or webinar recently about police violence and been moved by calls from Black leaders to get involved? Do you want to learn how you can plug into efforts to defund the police and work to undo white supremacy in a...
We are in a time that has invited to reflect on the type of world we are willing to create for ourselves and future generations. You are invited to join us for an opportunity to reflect on the impacts of institutional racism, heal with others...
Join textile artist Niku Arbabi and Austin Creative Reuse in a virtual community workshop and meetup exploring hand stitching and embroidery. We’ll share techniques for stitching on different materials, transferring designs, and share work. You may add an ACR embroidery kit to your class fee...
