[OPLINLIST] Join us for From Being to Doing: Anti-racism as Action at Work

[ALAO Public Relations Coordinator]

Continue the Discussion "From Being to Doing: Anti-racism as Action at Work"

Based upon feedback from participants at the recent 2020 ALAO Preconference
session, "From Being to Doing: Anti-racism as Action at Work," ALAO is
pleased to offer an additional opportunity for the library community to
come together and strategize ways we can develop specific anti-racist
actions that we can implement, particularly around professional culture in
library workspaces. The presenter, Ione T. Damasco, will be facilitating
two online discussion sessions as follow-up programs to the original
preconference event.

These sessions will be structured around a racial caucus/affinity group
model. When it comes to anti-racist work, white people and Black,
Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) have work that they need to do
separately, and work that must be done together in solidarity. Caucuses
provide spaces for people to do some work within their own racial groups.

>From Racial Equity Tools
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"White people and people of color each have work to do separately and
together. Caucuses provide spaces for people to work within their own
racial/ethnic groups. For white people, a caucus provides time and space to
work explicitly and intentionally on understanding white culture and white
privilege and to increase one’s critical analysis around these concepts. A
white caucus also puts the onus on white people to teach each other about
these ideas, rather than constantly relying on people of color to teach
them. For people of color, a caucus is a place to work with their peers on
their experiences of internalized racism, for healing and to work on
liberation."

Before you attend the session for your caucus group, please be sure you
have watched the recorded presentation: https://youtu.be/xTXlNHmScbQ
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Also, please be mindful when you register to be sure you have signed up for
the caucus group appropriate to your racial identity. We look forward to
continuing the conversation from ALAO, and hope to see you in one of the
sessions in December.

   - Register to participate in the Anti-racism as Action at Work Live
   Discussion (BIPOC caucus)
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   December 4, 12-12:45pm
   - Register to participate in Anti-racism as Action at Work Live
   Discussion (white/Caucasian caucus)
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   December 7, 12-12:45pm
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