Facing Race: A National Conference in St. Louis, MO — November 20-22, 2024

Sarah Crowell

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Presentations from Facing Race 2024

How We Get Free: Living into Liberatory Futures

 

We’ve been lied to about freedom–what it is, what it feels like, and how to practice it. The conventional beliefs about freedom entrenched in the American psyche are based on fallacies of independence, self-sufficiency, and resource hoarding. America’s culture of individualistic freedom stokes distrust, disconnection, and a zero-sum-game mindset that reinforces the systems of racial, colonial, and capitalist oppression structuring our society. In truth, we are inherently and indisputably interconnected and so is our freedom. To find our collective path toward the liberated, just world we want and deserve, we must (re)learn and embody different beliefs about what freedom is and how it’s practiced. We must reclaim a freedom that centers our inherent connection, prioritizes mutual responsibility as liberatory action, and nourishes the cultivation of caring community. This experiential session will guide participants to: -Interrogate their beliefs about freedom -Recognize how interconnected freedom already shapes their lives -Apply an interconnected freedom frame to their work -Cultivate liberatory practices to bring a freer world into being

Speakers: Mia Birdsong, Sarah Crowell