This event is an abbreviated teach back version of the week-long Black Feminist Organizing School held at the Highlander Center in August. Like the national school, participants are those who seek a (deeper) understanding of patriarchy and its application to our organizing work. The St. Louis workshop, "Some of us are Brave," will share the same goals as the school:
>To deepen and strengthen the consciousness, analysis, and organizing capacity of Black feminist leaders engaged in movement/social change work;
>To provide a space for study, training, and engagement around key concepts such as black feminist thought, intersectionality, what is power, Black feminist economies, seeing like a state, what is organizing and organizing with a Black feminist lens, gender and sexuality, and beyond.;
>To develop and/or sharpen emerging organizing skills(direct action, conflict management, etc.) to meet the new and changing needs of movement;
>To connect and build with other Black feminists who are active in other movements and issues.

The following workshops will be presented:
Personal Power: From Self-Transformation to Collective Transformation: by Jamala Rogers (Black Feminist Organizing School Faculty)
Political Economy: by Nikia Paulette (BFOS Participant)
Dismantling the Master’s House: by Dalychia Saah (BFOS Participant)