At the Intersection
A Guided Course for Dismantling Internalized White Supremacy for Femmes & Thems
Featuring: White Tears|Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
8-session course, online or in person. Limit 12 people per course. 120 minutes per session. Each session focuses on one chapter of the book.
This course is designed for those looking to contextualize their feminism, to understand how internalized white supremacy keeps everyone oppressed, and to develop the lifelong skill of dismantling internalized systems of oppression. The work here is academic, emotional, and somatic in nature and features antiracist strategies developed by best practitioners in the field.
Disclaimer: This course is designed specifically for white femmes and thems; while nonwhite folks can take the class, there is the potential for unintended racialized harm. The goal is here is to give white folks (or biracial folks, or those socialized as white) a space to unlearn without causing harm or relying on PoGM to teach them.
Registration is closed. The next round of this course will begin in early 2025.
About this Course
At The Intersection is a course for white femmes and thems to help them dismantle internalized white supremacy. There will be a lot of accountability work in this group: identifying problematic behaviors, confronting & dismantling them, practicing holding & ceding space, sitting in discomfort, stopping self-victimization, and moving into empowered co-conspiratorship. The first session of At The Intersection features Ruby Hamad’s White Tears|Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color. The next book in the series will be The Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller.
“The goal is to help white women specifically (and those socialized a white women) be able to spot when "feminism" is just upholding white supremacist patriarchy and to make their practice intersectional—because actually practicing intersectional feminism dismantles systems of oppression.”
Whitney Gaines (they/them)
Instructor of ‘At the Intersection’
About Our Class Tiers
We recognize that cost is frequently a barrier to access. We are dedicated to eliminating that barrier. We have three payment tiers available:
Tier One
$160 for the eight-session course or $20 for one-session courses. This option is for those with limited income, students, those under 18, or BIPOC folx. To access this cost, use the code TIERONE on the registration page.
Tier Two
$240 for the eight-session course or $30 for one-session courses. This is the default cost.
Tier Three
$320 for the eight-session course or $40 for one-session courses. This is for folx with expendable income and who want to invest in the future of Theory & Practice. Use the ‘add on’ function on the registration page to purchase at this tier. Extra funds from purchasing at this tier will go into Theory & Practice’s money market account to help us save up for our own space.