*****registration required. Registration will close at 8 AM day of event****

This space will be facilitated by Stronghold, an organization working at the intersection of restorative justice and racial justice. 

We recognize that racism and white supremacy are forms of historical and ongoing harm that compound and contribute to the ruptures we experience internally, interpersonally and collectively. Our pedagogy and practice centers healing; draws on folks’ lived experience; invites real-time self-reflection and interpersonal practice with regards to harm and accountability; and emphasizes relationships rather than self-reliance amidst racialized conflict.

Our affinity group spaces are designed to bring our attention to our cultural inheritances and the ways our racial conditioning both lives inside us and expresses itself through us. Our affinity group work centers personal and community accountability, shame resilience, and truth-telling.

Together we engage in practices that allow us to show up rooted in our wholeness and dignity.

In our BIPOC affinity group spaces we intentionally center our own lived experiences and decenter whiteness. Our time together emphasises and prioritizes relationship, allows presence for self and others, enables deep listening, and offers mutual support. BIPOC affinity space allows us to drop in with one another, recognize our shared, complex, and multi-faceted experiences, and build upon and fortify our inherent dignity and resilience.

For accommodations related to a disability, please email nicole.hindes@oregonstate.edu.