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ARWAG Spring Term Meetings

The Anti-Racist White Affinity Group welcomes new members! 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 themselves 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.

Not sure if ARWAG is for you? Want to join the ARWAG Moodle to get the readings and details about upcoming meetings? Contact Jenna Stone (jennifer.stone@lawrence.edu), executive director of budget and planning, or Becca Hollinger (Rebecca.a.hollinger@lawrence.edu), executive assistant in the office of diversity and inclusion, for more information.

Spring Term meetings:  April 3rd, April 17th, May 1st, and May 15th at 1:00 p.m.

Open Office Hours with Dr. Kimberly Barrett

April 12, 2018
Sampson House (2nd Floor), 1:30 pm – 4 pm
Dr. Kimberly Barrett, Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion is hosting open office hours. The first open office hours for Spring Term are being held on April 12th, 2018. Drop by Sampson House, 2nd floor and share ideas, concerns, comments, etc. Appointments are not required, people will be accommodated on a first come-first serve basis.

January Cultural Competency Lecture Series

Cultural Competency Lecture Series

January 11, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. in Esch Hurvis Room (225)

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Mark R. Jenike

Fat Stigma: Why All of Us Are Stakeholders in Obesity

Fat stigma is real; it is worldwide; and it has real consequences, including worsening health outcomes and exacerbating obesity. Americans’ understanding of the causes of bodyweight variation is dominated by a personal responsibility frame. This session will draw on research, as well as personal experience, to provide a more complex and nuanced exploration of the causes of bodyweight variation in the contemporary world. Preliminary results from a recent focus group study with large-bodied individuals in the Fox Valley will be presented and discussed. The purpose of the session is to help us develop more productive ways to understand this element of diversity so that we can engage in less counterproductive stigmatizing and blaming in order to show more respect and inclusion for people of all sizes.

Please RSVP to div-inclusion@lawrence.edu by January 9!