Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

[LaWanda Swan <>]

Greetings, All!

The Anti-Oppressive Advocacy® online course is now  welcoming our fourth cohort of learners! The Anti-Oppressive Advocacy® framework is a structure that demands the adoption of critique within institutional and external oppression impacting historically-minoritized people and communities. It supports anti-violence professionals and others in the Human Services industry better support marginalized clients through the interrogation of service provision and policy reform. 

This six-month course, beginning June 7th, will support anti-violence professionals and those in intersecting helping fields to interrogate their personal and professional relationships with anti-Blackness and White Supremacy.  Members will learn about:

• the history of Whiteness as a racial identity marker, ideology, and strategy; 
• anti-Blackness as an international compact and vehicle that sustains oppression;
• how the role and history of anti-Blackness served as a backdrop for inequitable care for Black survivors of violence;
  
• how oppressive advocacy strategies find a home in person-centered service structures and the ways they have been complicit in aligning with inequitable service provision;
• strategies to transform service provision from non-racist to anti-oppressive.

Those interested in learning more about the course can learn more here or by contacting Wanda Swan at .