The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop with Felicia Rose Chavez
Join us for workshops with Felicia Rose Chavez, author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and reading group sessions facilitated by ECU Writing Specialist Jacqueline Turner.
Join us for workshops with Felicia Rose Chavez, author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and reading group sessions facilitated by ECU Writing Specialist Jacqueline Turner.
Chavez asks, “It’s more urgent than ever that we consciously work against traditions of dominance in the classroom, but what specific actions can we take to achieve authentically inclusive communities?"
Together, we will address how to:
- Deconstruct our biases to achieve a cultural shift in perspective.
- Design a democratic teaching model to create safe spaces for creative concentration.
- Recruit, nourish, and fortify students of color to best empower them to exercise voice.
- Embolden our students to self-advocate as citizens in a global community.
1. Anti-Racist Writing Workshops with Felicia Rose Chavez:
March 14 @ 11:30 - 1 p.m. Critique Across Disciplines Workshop with Felicia Rose Chavez
April 11 @ 1 - 2 p.m. Reading + Talk Back Session with Felicia Rose Chavez
2. ECU Reading Group Sessions facilitated by Jacqueline Turner:
March 7 @ 10-11 a.m. Decolonizing the Creative Classroom
March 28 @ 1-2 p.m. Instituting Reading and Writing Rituals
April 4 @ 10-11 a.m. Promoting Camaraderie and Collective Power
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Come to any or all of the sessions. Register here.
To read the e-book (available through the ECU Library): please click here.
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Felicia Rose Chavez is an award-winning educator with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She is author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT with Willie Perdomo and Jose Olivarez. Felicia’s teaching career began in Chicago, where she served as Program Director to Young Chicago Authors and founded GirlSpeak, a feminist webzine for high school students. She went on to teach writing at the University of New Mexico, where she was distinguished as the Most Innovative Instructor of the Year, the University of Iowa, where she was distinguished as the Outstanding Instructor of the Year, and Colorado College, where she received the Theodore Roosevelt Collins Outstanding Faculty Award. Her creative scholarship earned her a Ronald E. McNair Fellowship, a University of Iowa Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, a Riley Scholar Fellowship, and a Hadley Creatives Fellowship. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she currently serves as Creativity and Innovation Scholar-in-Residence at Colorado College.
Relevant Links:
- Detailed workshop/session information available here.
- https://www.antiracistworkshop.com/the-antiracist-writing-workshop
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVrPHypR7yg
If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail writingcentre@ecuad.ca
Supported by NSERC EDI Capacity Building award, the Writing Centre, and the Faculty of Culture + Community.