September 19 – 5:00 pm informal networking and social
October 3, 17, and 31 – 12:30 to 1:30 pm
For more details and to get access to the archive of past ARWAG readings, join the ARWAG Moodle group. Contact Jenna Stone (stonej@lawrence.edu), director of budget and planning, or Emily Wilson (emily.r.wilson@lawrence.edu), executive assistant for diversity & inclusion, for the Moodle instructions.
What, you may ask, is an anti-racist white affinity group? ARWAG is a gathering of Lawrence staff and faculty seeking to understand and challenge racism. Recognizing that anti-racist work is disproportionately borne by people of color, ARWAG is a setting for white people to take responsibility for educating ourselves about racism and for challenging white supremacy from the inside. Organized as a study group, ARWAG will read and discuss materials that help us understand how racism operates, especially in its insidious forms that are harder for white people to notice in action—white privilege, unconscious / implicit bias, and structural racism.
ARWAG is for white people at varying stages of knowledge and understanding about racism. Whether you’re just starting to learn about things like unconscious bias or structural racism, or you are a committed anti-racist activist, ARWAG welcomes your participation. Come, learn, ask questions, get uncomfortable, challenge yourself, share ideas, be part of a community learning to do less harm.