University Open Air: Kinwork: Anti-racism, Anti-facism, and How to Organize Our Families

Fri, Apr 25 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Library for Arts & Culture

BPL Presents humanities and art University Open Air


In this workshop we will learn how to approach political topics like Immigration, anti-Haitianism, anti-Blackness and far right conservatism with your family while maintaining mental health and wellness. This workshop offers communication, well-being and organizing strategies to influence those around you towards action.

This event is in collaboration with MoCADA.

Dr. Saudi Garcia is an organizational steward, scholar, public educator and facilitator. She is the Director of the Freedom and Justice Institute and of the Dominican-Haitian social justice, peace and liberation organization In Cultured Company. Dr. Garcia is a graduate of Brown University & New York University, where she trained as an anthropologist of race and science, technology, medicine and society (STMS). She is also a former Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The New School’s Department of Anthropology (2022-24). In May of 2024, Dr. Garcia publicly resigned her Assistant Professorship in protest over her university’s violent response to student protests over the war in Gaza and the deterioration of labor conditions in higher education institutions. Her current project, FAJI, seeks to study & organize against those conditions. Dr. Garcia’s scholarship traces Caribbean geographies racial capitalism, toxic pollution, & climate catastrophe and their alternatives: Abolition democracy & BIack and Indigenous feminist traditions of earth stewardship. Her ongoing book project theorizes how Haitian & Black Dominican decolonial traditions inform present struggles against environmental racism, racialized social exclusion and extractivism on the island of Ayiti. She enjoys surfing, cooking, reading novels, & spending quality time with friends and family.

University Open Air is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.

Dr. Saudi Garcia
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Add to My Calendar 04/25/2025 11:00 am 04/25/2025 01:00 pm America/New_York University Open Air: Kinwork: Anti-racism, Anti-facism, and How to Organize Our Families <p><span style="font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">In this workshop we will learn how to approach political topics like Immigration, anti-Haitianism, anti-Blackness and far right conservatism with your family while maintaining mental health and wellness. This workshop offers communication, well-being and organizing strategies to influence those around you towards action.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">This event is in collaboration with </span><a href="https://mocada.org/"><span style="font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">MoCADA</span></a><span style="font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">.</span></p> Brooklyn Public Library - Library for Arts & Culture MM/DD/YYYY 60

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