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SUMMARY:Racializing Black Women: Equity\, Exceptionalism\, and Sustaining Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Black women are often praised for strength\, resilience\, and endurance\, but rarely given space to name the cost. This workshop examines how racism functions as a system of power rather than individual bias\, and how Black women\, including Black trans and queer women\, experience its impacts in work\, leadership\, relationships\, and movement. \nTogether\, we will explore how the demand for exceptionalism emerges as a survival strategy within racialized systems\, and how it leads to burnout\, disconnection from the body\, and conditional belonging. Participants will be invited to reflect on the ways faith communities may unintentionally reinforce these expectations through theology\, leadership culture\, and justice work. \nGrounded in spiritual practice and collective care\, the workshop closes by reclaiming rest as resistance understood as small\, intentional acts of pause and presence that refuse disposability\, restore agency\, and re-center sacred worth\, even as violence\, occupation\, and struggle persist.
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/racializing-black-women-equity-exceptionalism-and-rest-as-resistance-a-healing-well-workshop/
LOCATION:Zoom
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