GRIOT Employee Resource Group: The Skin I'm In

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Friday August 12, 2016
      11:30 am - 1:30 pm
  • Location: Student Center Ballroom
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Contact

Laleeta Sweeper-Pitts

laleeta.pitts@carnegie.gatech.edu

404-894-0065

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Participants discuss "colorism," as something to emerge from rather than a phenomenon to continuously perpetrate

Full Summary: Please join Georgia Tech’s GRIOT Employee Resource Group for an engaging Brown Bag lunch event, “The Skin I’m In” Colorism Workshop, hosted by Cheryl Cofield, director of inclusion and engagement in Institute Diversity, and Stephanie Ray, associate dean of students and director of Diversity Programs.

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In this powerfully transformative "keeping it real" dialogue, participants discuss "colorism," as something to emerge from rather than a phenomenon to continuously perpetrate. The knots in participants’ stomachs are loosened as they learn to reject the politics of hue and embrace the unique array of their own beauty in the face of society's distorted messaging.

This workshop provides an opportunity for the following groups to momentarily pause to compassionately see themselves in one another’s struggles:

  • Dark-skinned participants who often feel they maintain a monopoly on pain; and who often find it difficult to dismantle notions about dark skin as to fully embrace the beauty of their reflection within U.S. cultural context;
  • Light-skinned participants who often wish they had darker skin, so they could feel more worthy of "being Black;" who often feel hurt by childhood memories of relatives who made darker skinned siblings/cousins feel de-valued; and who often feel that their pain goes unrecognized;
  • Brown/tan/caramel-skinned participants who often feel confused, invisible, and pushed to the sidelines in conversations about colorism; and who often reflect on their own skin tone as much lighter or darker than it actually is just to be part of the conversation;
  • Anyone open to learning more about colorism and its impacts and influences.

SIgn up today as space is limited.
http://www.diversity.gatech.edu/griot-employee-resource-group-skin-im

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  • Created By: Michael Hagearty
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jul 19, 2016 - 7:25am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:18pm