QUEER LIBERATION AND COLLECTIVE LIBERATION
How do dismantling the gender binary and anti-racism relate to uprooting classism and disability justice? In this workshop, we will explore the intersections of identity and liberation. By placing LGBTQ issues and gender justice at the center, we will discuss how queer liberation is tied up with all forms of liberation. Using a strong anti-oppression lens, this popular education style workshop will give participants a safe place to discuss power and privilege, reflect on the state of their communities, and leave with concrete action steps to challenge and change the conversations and conditions in their communities and beyond.
ABOUT AORTA
http://www.aortacollective.org/
www.facebook.com/pages/Anti-Oppression-Resource-and-Training-Alliance-AORTA
AORTA is a collective of educators devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. We work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training and planning. We base our work on an intersectional approach to liberation because we believe that true change requires uprooting all systems of oppression.
ABOUT THE TRAINERS
Kiran Nigam, based in Oakland, CA, is an educator, facilitator, and artist with roots in California, Michigan, Iowa and Uttar Pradesh. After living in the Berkeley Student Co-ops, kiran worked as the Director of Education and Training for NASCO, where she facilitated workshops for housing cooperatives across the US and Canada. Kiran spent three years teaching at a democratically run school, and has served on the Boards of NASCO and the US Solidarity Economy Network.
Passionate about building healthy and sustainable organizations, kiran loves facilitating organizational retreats, strategic planning sessions and longer camps and trainings that allow for deeper growth, strategizing, and skills development.
Kiran was a core organizer of the 2010 US Social Forum as co-chair of the national Program and Culture Working Group. Kiran has also organized cooperative educational conferences, including the National Worker Cooperative Conference and NASCO’s Cooperative Education and Training Institute and Anti-Oppression Action Camp.
Kiran has presented at many conferences, events and campuses, including the University of British Columbia, Evergreen College, the Rouge Forum, and the Philly Stands Up Transformative Justice and Sexual Assault Action Camp.
You can contact kiran at: kiran@aortacollective.org
Jenna Peters-Golden is an organizer, trainer, anti-Zionist Jewish rabble-rouser and artist with an inexhaustible amount of energy for exploring, taking things apart, and putting them back together. Firmly planted in West Philadelphia, Jenna was raised in southeastern Michigan.
She has organized regionally and nationally with the new Students for a Democratic Society, the Rainforest Action Network and Student Environmental Action Coalition around PowerShift. She has been inspired by working with organizations like Casino Free Philadelphia and the Ruckus Society, and is a member of the political study group Marginal Notes. Jenna is also a core member of Philly Stands Up, a transformative justice collective.
In 2010, Jenna was a recipient of the the Leeway Foundation’s Art and Change grant.
Jenna also served as a track coordinator for the Growing Safer Communities Track at the 2011 Allied Media Conference. Jenna has presented at events such as the U.S. Social Forum 2010, NASCO Institute, Communities United Against Violence’s Safety Fest 2011, and the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy 2011.
You can contact Jenna at: jenna@aortacollective.org
ACCESS INFO
front door: 5 feet width
front door step: 6 inch height (but we have a ramp)
ramp: 31 inch width
washroom door: 33 inch width
toilet: 10 inch clearance on left side
14″ inch clearance in front to sink
In order to create a space where folks with multiple chemical sensitivities can participate, please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes or other scented products (including essential oils) and smoke far away from the entrance to the space. For info on how to support folks with multiple chemical sensitivities, visit: http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html
PAYMENT
Sliding scale $10-$60, no one turned away.
If you have access to wealth or regular income, paying at the higher ends of the scale helps us to be able to continue to offer workshops that are accessible to poor and working class folks, who need to utilize the lower ends of the scale.
10% of the funds will be donated back to Gallery Gachet, to support their work.
This workshop is sponsored in part by the UBC Social Justice Centre.
Queer Liberation and Collective Liberation – AORTA Workshop
QUEER LIBERATION AND COLLECTIVE LIBERATION
How do dismantling the gender binary and anti-racism relate to uprooting classism and disability justice? In this workshop, we will explore the intersections of identity and liberation. By placing LGBTQ issues and gender justice at the center, we will discuss how queer liberation is tied up with all forms of liberation. Using a strong anti-oppression lens, this popular education style workshop will give participants a safe place to discuss power and privilege, reflect on the state of their communities, and leave with concrete action steps to challenge and change the conversations and conditions in their communities and beyond.
ABOUT AORTA
http://www.aortacollective.org/
www.facebook.com/pages/Anti-Oppression-Resource-and-Training-Alliance-AORTA
AORTA is a collective of educators devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. We work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training and planning. We base our work on an intersectional approach to liberation because we believe that true change requires uprooting all systems of oppression.
ABOUT THE TRAINERS
Kiran Nigam, based in Oakland, CA, is an educator, facilitator, and artist with roots in California, Michigan, Iowa and Uttar Pradesh. After living in the Berkeley Student Co-ops, kiran worked as the Director of Education and Training for NASCO, where she facilitated workshops for housing cooperatives across the US and Canada. Kiran spent three years teaching at a democratically run school, and has served on the Boards of NASCO and the US Solidarity Economy Network.
Passionate about building healthy and sustainable organizations, kiran loves facilitating organizational retreats, strategic planning sessions and longer camps and trainings that allow for deeper growth, strategizing, and skills development.
Kiran was a core organizer of the 2010 US Social Forum as co-chair of the national Program and Culture Working Group. Kiran has also organized cooperative educational conferences, including the National Worker Cooperative Conference and NASCO’s Cooperative Education and Training Institute and Anti-Oppression Action Camp.
Kiran has presented at many conferences, events and campuses, including the University of British Columbia, Evergreen College, the Rouge Forum, and the Philly Stands Up Transformative Justice and Sexual Assault Action Camp.
You can contact kiran at: kiran@aortacollective.org
Jenna Peters-Golden is an organizer, trainer, anti-Zionist Jewish rabble-rouser and artist with an inexhaustible amount of energy for exploring, taking things apart, and putting them back together. Firmly planted in West Philadelphia, Jenna was raised in southeastern Michigan.
She has organized regionally and nationally with the new Students for a Democratic Society, the Rainforest Action Network and Student Environmental Action Coalition around PowerShift. She has been inspired by working with organizations like Casino Free Philadelphia and the Ruckus Society, and is a member of the political study group Marginal Notes. Jenna is also a core member of Philly Stands Up, a transformative justice collective.
In 2010, Jenna was a recipient of the the Leeway Foundation’s Art and Change grant.
Jenna also served as a track coordinator for the Growing Safer Communities Track at the 2011 Allied Media Conference. Jenna has presented at events such as the U.S. Social Forum 2010, NASCO Institute, Communities United Against Violence’s Safety Fest 2011, and the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy 2011.
You can contact Jenna at: jenna@aortacollective.org
ACCESS INFO
front door: 5 feet width
front door step: 6 inch height (but we have a ramp)
ramp: 31 inch width
washroom door: 33 inch width
toilet: 10 inch clearance on left side
14″ inch clearance in front to sink
In order to create a space where folks with multiple chemical sensitivities can participate, please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes or other scented products (including essential oils) and smoke far away from the entrance to the space. For info on how to support folks with multiple chemical sensitivities, visit: http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html
PAYMENT
Sliding scale $10-$60, no one turned away.
If you have access to wealth or regular income, paying at the higher ends of the scale helps us to be able to continue to offer workshops that are accessible to poor and working class folks, who need to utilize the lower ends of the scale.
10% of the funds will be donated back to Gallery Gachet, to support their work.
This workshop is sponsored in part by the UBC Social Justice Centre.