Building a Revolution Ain't Easy: Disrupting and Re-Grounding Our Activism
with Tomee Sojourner

TUESDAY evenings in MARCH and APRIL
March 4, 11, 18, 25 and April 1 and 8, from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $69 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required. **Please call to register.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants.
Limited sliding scale spots available.
Partially wheelchair accessible.

This introductory course will critically explore the complexities of what it means to be an 'engaged' activist, as you strive to challenge and change systems of oppression.   As activists, educators, workers, and community members with intersecting identities, we will also look at how competing interests and fractured solidarities create conflicts within systems of resistance. Using an interactive and participatory format, participants will draw on their lived experiences and course materials to deepen their self-awareness, and to disrupt and reflect on their roles as activists.

Course Objectives:
- To encourage participants to disrupt their understanding of what it means to be an 'engaged' activist, especially in their roles as allies to folks moving in marginalized spaces.
- To encourage participants to integrate an intersectional analysis into their everyday lives as activists, as they move through systems of resistance and oppression.
- Participants will be encouraged to use their passion and creative expressions in the course, in order to open up space to address topics such as self-care, the roles of allies, and handling difficult conversations.

Day 1- Unwrapping Our Activism
Day 2- Being an Ally-Where are you located? What is your 'role'?
Day 3- Integrating an Intersectional Analysis to Navigate Systems of Resistance and Oppression
Day 4- Handling Difficult Conversations: Competing Interests & Fractured Solidarities
Day 5- Taking Care of Self: Laying the Foundation for the Revolution
Day 6-  Re-Rooting Our Revolution: Moving Forward
* All participants will receive a course package with the required materials. No additional texts are required.

Participants are encouraged to self-identify any invisible and/or visible disabilities prior to the start date in order for the instructor to
incorporate accommodations into the course, so that there is open and engaged participation. Large print course materials will be available.

Instructor's Bio:
Tomee Sojourner is a Black diasporic, masculinized butch-identified lesbian with a learning disability.  Tomee moves in the work world as a community/labour educator, part-time College Professor, activist, visual artist, writer, and Principal Consultant for Sojourner Diversity Consultants. She has an M.A in Social Justice and Equity Studies from Brock University, and a B.A. Honours in Directed Interdisciplinary Studies, specializing in Discrimination and Resistance in Canadian Society, from Carleton University. Tomee grounds her work in an integrated feminist/womanist, queer, intersectional, transformative perspective.

TUESDAY evenings in MARCH and APRIL
March 4, 11, 18, 25 and April 1 and 8, from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $69 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required. **Please call
to register.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants. Limited sliding scale spots available.
Partially wheelchair accessible.

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