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BIPOC LDS Sistas Q&A Fireside – This Sunday!

BIPOC LDS Sistas Q&A Fireside - This Sunday!

 

As a way to continue the pursuit of Anti-Racism work in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a Q&A fireside will be offered this Sunday, June 6th, 2021 to all LDS women and young women.  This fireside is in connection with the Black Lives Matter Sunday Discussions held earlier this year and posted about and endorsed here.

The fireside this weekend is for BIPOC LDS women and all anti-racism allies, including Non-BIPOC women and young women. The fireside will be offered as a larger gathering of those who have completed the 3-week Sunday discussion series, as well as anyone joining in for the first time. These larger gatherings are planned and led by Black and Black biracial LDS women in leadership with the BIPOC LDS Sistas Spiritual Support Group.

Here is some information about the event:

The BIPOC LDS SISTAS (ANTI-RACISM ALLIES) – Q & A FIRESIDE is developed and facilitated by BIPOC LDS Sistas :

As an anti-racism ally it is an opportunity …

  • To directly hear from BIPOC LDS Sistas as you continue on the path to interpersonal anti-racism transformation.
  • To reflectively and actively engage with BIPOC Sistas and other Fireside active participants.
  • To ask difficult questions, because they are an opportunity to provide valuable context around racialized issues.
  • To actively gauge where you are in terms of unconscious racial prejudices and biases in ones beliefs and attitudes that leads to automatic stereotype/prejudice type behaviors.
  • To access tools to help demonstratively consciously rectify any problem areas.
  • To Commit to “Make A Concrete & Actionable Plan To Go From Learning to ACTION (If applicable).

Prior to the fireside, those who register for the event will be sent selected readings as “homework” so you’ll want to fill out this RSVP link right away to get started. Those who register will also be sent the Zoom meeting codes to attend virtually from all over the world.

From Dr. Pepper McCoy, “the FIRESIDES are open to both BIPOC & Non-BIPOC LDS Sisters, even though the non-BIPOC Sisters are especially encouraged to be “spiritually” reflective and vulnerable while challenged to examine learned beliefs of white supremacy/white privilege, as well as to “unlearn” it by leaning away from habitual often implicit racial biases and/or racial prejudices tendencies…then turning that interpersonal anti-racism transformation into action (truly “leading/rooting out” racism)!”

Register here for the fireside this Sunday.

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