Healing Dialogues: My Sister's Keeper

351 College Drive,Sarasota FL 34234

24 February, 2022

Description

Join us for a series of dialogues on health, wellness, and black women's healing. The third event, “My Sister’s Keeper,” will feature a dialogue between Tosha Alston, founder and artistic director of Ayodele Drum and Dance in Chicago; Janet Taylor, a community psychiatrist and expert in healing racial trauma; Deidra Larkins, Sarasota native who runs a local Sister Circle dedicated to black women’s health and wellness; and Dr. Queen Zabriskie, associate professor of Sociology and Theatre, Dance, and Performance studies and Interim Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New College of Florida. The dialogue among Alston, Taylor, and Zabriskie will examine Black women’s history and contemporary practice of resisting and healing from racialized gender oppression through collective work and the formation of networks of support. New College’s annual Black History Month program rallies the campus community as we celebrate and explore the rich history, culture, and contemporary realities of Black people and communities. As an annual program, Black History Month at New College intentionally focuses on Black communities in the United States and abroad in order to highlight the complexity and multiplicity of blackness and Black experiences.