Building Bridges Across Oppressions

Time/Place: Baltimore, MD, Friday, January 27, 2012, afternoon.

Register through Creating Change www.creatingchange.org

GLBT people experience multiple oppressions that intersect with one another in complex ways. Working in behalf of others who are affected by multiple oppressions in faith communities is essential to achieving full welcome and inclusion. To build bridges between various oppressions, we must first understand our own privilege and power and their interplay in oppression dynamics. Participants will come away with a new understanding of movement building and problem solving through an anti-oppression lens.

Participants will gain a new understanding of privilege and power in the context of intersections of oppression. Some constituencies are impacted by so many conspiring experiences that organizing in isolation from multiple marginalizations often leads to a limited level of impact. Bridges will be built across these multiple oppressions so that collaboration with activists from different working groups may result in movement building and problem-solving through an anti-oppression lens.