Building Capacity for the IBPOC Teaching and Learning Community: Confluence and Constellations–Reflecting on an Intersectional Approach to Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning

The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) team at the CTLT is excited to offer another installment of “Building Capacity” a networking, wellness, and educational space offered to the IBPOC identifying teaching and learning community during the CTLT Winter InstituteBuildi. This installment of Building Capacity is grounded in the Indigenous scholarship of Leanne Simpson, particularly their body of work, the “Constellations of Co-Resistance”. This networking and facilitated learning session will explore the notion of building and sustaining trust, compassion, courage and wellness through the key aspects of co-resistance: community roundedness, decolonial love, interconnected struggles, reclaiming narratives, embodied praxis, alternatives to western structures, and focusing on radical futures.

Recognizing the unique positionalities, potentials, and tensions of engaging in anti-racist work as a racialized individual, this session offers space and discussion to explore and unpack positionality and institutional privilege as a racialized educator; engaging in a lens that is grounded in the principles of confluence when adopting anti-racist teaching and learning methods. Intersectional anti-racist teaching and learning, seeks to intentionally and equally hold space for a blend of critical social pedagogies (for example crip pedagogies, queer pedagogies, feminist pedagogies, global pedagogies etc). Holding space for blended pedagogies provides pathways to sustaining trust, compassion, courage, and wellness for students and educators that occupy many compounding sites of historically marginalized identities.

Learning Objectives

• Build critically reflexive skills that bolster introductory capacity building on developing an intersectional approach to anti-racist teaching and learning practice
• Connect and build a network with new and returning IBPOC faculty, lecturers, graduate students, and staff who are interested in anti-racist pedagogies and practices
• Meet the A-RTL team at CTLT, and become familiar with resources, curated for the IBPOC teaching and learning community