Please join us on zoom, March 11, from 10am-12:00 for our Unlearning Circle Analyzing Power. As we move back into unlearning circles this year, we wanted to lean into our roots as a group committed to organizing to undo racism with grounding in organizing principles from both...
Join us for our November 12 Unlearning Circle: Building Skills to Talk About Race! Sat. 11/12/22 from 10am-noon CST Please join us on zoom November 12th from 10am-12:00 for our Unlearning Circle Building Skills to Talk about Race. The Unlearning Circles for October through December will help us build our...
Undoing White Supremacy Austin is hosting an online orientation meeting next Tuesday, October, 4th 6-7 pm. Come join us to learn more about UWSA and how you can get involved. There are many different ways you can contribute your skills and interests to undo white supremacy...
“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.” - bell hooks We seek to have conversations about institutional racism, unjust systems of oppression, and our accountability to...
We invite you to join us for our upcoming Unlearning Circle on Sat, August 13, 2022, where we will continue to explore our role in building accountable communities. In previous Unlearning Circles we have explored safety and policing, the policing that is (or is not) happening in...
Anne Braden (July 28, 1924 – March 6, 2006) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator dedicated to the cause of racial equality. In celebration of her birthday, UWSA is hosting an online, two-hour workshop, “White Antiracist History; White Antiracist Mobilization: Lessons From...
We hope you will join us for May’s Unlearning Circle where we will explore our role in building accountable communities. Historically, white folks relied heavily on police for everyday problems. But thanks to leadership and guidance from communities of color, the tides are turning: every...
Join us as we wrap up our three-part series on Transformative Justice. We have explored what transformative justice is, the movement away from punishment as a solution to harm and a focus on the socialization of shame and blame which are embedded in us as...
Shifting the systems that address harm requires us to understand that our current legal system is rooted in the multi-generational and ancestral socialization of racism. As white people, we have been socialized to believe that violent legal, criminal, and carceral systems–systems rooted in punishment and...
Unlearning racism is necessarily vulnerable. It requires us to take accountability for the ways in which our behavior can cause harm. Yet many of us struggle to be vulnerable and take accountability out of fear that we will be punished and shamed if we get it “wrong.” So...