UMass Amherst Libraries Cohost “Climate, Labor, And Social Justice: Intersectional Change through Feminist Popular Education”

The UMass Amherst Libraries will cohost “Climate, Labor, And Social Justice: Intersectional Change through Feminist Popular Education,” a special workshop for UMass students, faculty, and community members, on Thursday, October 17, Noon-4 p.m., in the Amherst Room of the Campus Center. Registration is required.

Popular education employs an intersectional emphasis on community justice, feminist critique, and economic liberation to drive social change. A team that includes global experts in popular education with over 30 years of experience each in sharing and utilizing feminist popular education practices and principles will engage attendees using popular education techniques to enable each individual to visualize social change in the context of ‘just transitions’—the impact of climate change on labor and economic justice—and will equip participants to realize equitable change in their own lives and careers beyond their time at UMass Amherst.

The community members will benefit from interacting with these experienced, highly synergistic, and collaborative educators and activists and will gain insights and tools for grassroots policy advocacy and organizing efforts, as well as for building deep and complex global and local analyses.

This event is supported in part by a grant from the Community, Democracy, and Dialogue (CDD) advisory working group within the Office of Equity and Inclusion. Formed to help our community navigate challenging, complex, and controversial topics in ways that broaden perspectives and diminish polarization, CDD includes a diverse group of faculty, staff, and campus leaders with expertise in many fields, including geopolitics, equity and inclusion, and communication and civil discourse. In addition, its work is being informed by discussions with graduate and undergraduate student leaders. CDD is committed to proactively creating an ongoing, sustained effort that provides ways to support inclusion and diversity in concert with the democratic concepts of respect and compromise.

*Please note that there will be photography and video recording at this event.