Name
The Forest Around Us: Examining our ties to white supremacy culture through the stories of nature conservation
Date
Friday, November 11, 2022
Jocelyn Hernandez-Swanson William R. Moore Stephanie Heim Shirley Nordrum
Description

This workshop came about to tell the truth about whiteness in "lake life" in Minnesota and nature conservation across the U.S. through storytelling and intentional reflection. Our majority BIPOC presentation team commit to guiding participants to seeing their experience with nature from a lens of divorcing from white supremacy culture without centering whiteness. Our main activities are exploration of White Supremacy Culture, storytelling, and an interactive visioning and current reality exercise to imagine a relationship with nature outside of the perpetuation of white supremacy.