A Better F***ing Party than White Supremacy & Evangeline Weiss

Alternative title: Cancel Culture and White Women & Evangeline Weiss

What does it mean to be a White woman in the US today without supremacy or shame?

What does it mean to hold cancel culture as White supremacist and shame culture?

Loran and Jenny sit down with Evangeline Weiss, founder of Beyond Conflict & co-founder of We Are Finding Freedom to talk about how cancel culture replicates White supremacy culture and the intersection of race and gender as it applies to White women.

Questions include:

  • How do we hold the evolving nature of the human experience amidst accountability (and accountability abuse)?

  • How do we get more White people to center love in our work?

  • What does forgiveness and grace look like in our work of supporting other White people?

  • How do we make sense of the intersection of gender and race?

  • Do White women have any inherent qualities or attributes?

  • What, if anything, do you want to interrupt & expand within White women?

  • How do we find other White people to unpack racial equity with?

  • What's the role of fallibility in our work?

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Evangeline Weiss Projects & Contact Info

linktree for Finding Freedom: https://linktr.ee/wearefindingfreedom.org

Finding Freedom is a 5 part online workshop series for white women and gender queer people to examine our internalized dominance and collusion with racism. Upcoming workshops can be found here. @wearefindingfreedom on instagram

We still have spots available for Seeing the Forest: Reckoning with Our Roots for a Racially Just Future. If there is one thing we know, this work is meant to be done in relationship with others. Here is the Registration link:https:/done/bit.ly/StF2022.

Linktree for Evangeline: https://linktr.ee/evangelineweis

Monthly free, white anti-racist space. The caucus is a drop-in space (no need to tell us you're coming or not) and we ask you to RSVP 1 time, so we can make sure you're on the calendar invite. Next Session is April 22nd, 12:00-1:30pm ET. 

Information about coaching for white people, organizational change and other offerings can be found on Evangeline's website, www.gobeyondconflict.com

Sign up for my monthly Postcard from North Carolina by clicking here and follow her on instagram, @evangelineweis

We're so glad you're here refocusing on Whiteness without supremacy or shame. Like. Subscribe. Follow.

BONUS MATERIAL

The Spillway is one part — one teensy mechanism of the larger racial justice movement. We are White people talking to (predominately) White people about White people and White culture (however many cultures can be isolated in the US). This is an affinity space. At The Spillway, we are proverbially cleaning our room.

Evangeline’s work and conversation is such an important reminder that after (and sometimes even during) when we clean our room, we have to clean the bathroom, the kitchen, and the living room. When White people call other White people Karens and appropriate the term from Black culture, it’s messy and misogynistic. When Black people call people “Karen” it’s connected to a current and historical practice of White women weaponizing competing victimization and our privilege to further transgress and dehumanize Black people especially.

Here Evangeline shares the historic and current use of Karens in a cross-cultural context.

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For more on this, check out these resources:

The Once and Future Karen, NPR

A Brief History of Karen, The New York Times

The Mythology of Karen, The Atlantic

The Origin of the Karen Meme, Buzzfeed Video