Advocacy Training: Countering Islamophobia |
Join us!
Rev. Susan Ritchie will host a workshop with special guests on Saturday, March 11, 2017, from 9:00 AM-11:00 AM at NUUC in Fellowship Hall. This workshop will:
– define Islamophobia and understand its historical and social sources
– place Islamophobia in a larger context of racialized oppression
– address common myths and assumptions about Islam and Muslims
– identify how we are unintentionally participating
– identify how we can interrupt our own and others’ participation
– identify intersectionalities between Islamophobia, racism, homophobia, anti-immigrant bigotry, and sexism
--explore the culture of Somali immigrants in Columbus with regards to effective relationship building