Workshops & Book Groups
JTerm Book Group
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are invited to join JTerm Book Group to dialogue about intersections of diversity, justice, and sustainability through a common text. Groups online or in person to share, affirm, and challenge concepts, reflect how the book connects with our current social landscape, and dialogue about how they impact our Lute community.
2021: Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankie
2020: THICK, and other essays by Tresie McMillan
2019 Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Antonio Vargas
2018: Radical Hope : Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times by Carolina De Robertis
2017: Black Girl Dangerous : On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender by Mia McKenzie
2016: Citizen : An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
2015:The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
What Harm I'm Taught, Exploring my whiteness
A workshop on whiteness for white people! Students and staff will have the opportunity to participate in dialogue and activities which will begin or further each individuals’ lifelong process of unpacking the unwarranted privilege white folx are acculturated to receiving. Weekly dialogue will be based on readings, podcasts, and sharing personal experiences. Meeting times will be determined by the small group cohorts.
Session 1: Why are you here?
Session 2: Socialization
Session 3: Whiteness
Session 4: White Supremacy Culture
Session 5: Power & Relationships
Session 6: Solidarity
Sounds of Solidarity
We live in a time where voices are repressed, ignored, and erased. There is a constant pressure to silence the voices of those with intersecting and oppressed identities. In an effort to create a space where voices can be heard, this workshops aims to build a community of storytellers that value and celebrate intersectionality and the way that our identities have shaped the way we have grown in a unique understanding of ourselves. Participants will be able to express creativity the happiness, grief, pride, and multitude of other emotions that their various life experiences and/or identities have lead them to learn from. A final showcase will be shared with our community so that together we will all create a space where we can listen, learn and love.
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