Grieving White Supremacy
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Grieving White Supremacy is for people of European descent who are aching for a space to grieve both the weapon and the wound of white supremacy.
As white people, we are both responsible to dismantle the systems that uphold white supremacist policies, laws and institutions and we are worthy of our own ancestral healing. In fact, the two are not separate. This work is holy.
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The Weapon and the Wound
"White bodies traumatized each other in Europe for centuries before they encountered Black and Red bodies. This carnage and trauma profoundly affected white bodies and the expressions of their DNA. As we'll see, this historical trauma is closely linked to the development of white-body supremacy in America."
Chart by: Ahlay Blakely | I am open to feedback and further expansion of this idea
Ritual
Instead of moving towards the wound, how do we move towards the longing?
-Dara Silverman
This is a 3 day ritual in the woods where we grieve collectively, explore where internalized white supremacy lives in our bodies, how we (and our ancestors) have perpetuated (intentionally and/or unintentionally) these harms and grieve our own ancestral losses resulting in a range of sorrows from spiritual starvation to unbelonging.
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Facilitated by Ahlay Blakely, Anna-Brown Griswold and Jessica Radovich
The Spring 2023 ritual takes place in Ashford, WA.
April 3-7, 2023
Arriving Monday 3pm.
Ritual days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Departure on Friday 12pm.
Each participant is responsible for their own food and optional participation in a few potlucks. Lodging included.
Suggested (not required) prerequisites:
Take Before We Were White
Listen to these interviews
Click here to learn more about me, my teachers, education and trainings, and here to learn about the lineage of grief tending I come from.
Applications open Winter, 2023
RITUAL EARLY BIRD FEE IS $1200 USD
RITUAL FEE IS $1500 USD
Sliding scale limited solidarity slots available.
30% of ritual fees will be redistributed to Grief to Action and Real Rent Duwamish.