Due to length of discussion, this session will start 10 minutes ahead of the other "Soul" sessions. Please be sure to tune in at 1:20 pm.

Join us for a conversation on the need for community wellness to include racial justice, addressing the oftentimes invisible labor of people of color, who bear the taxing burden of dismantling the very systems that have worked to oppress them. In the aftermath of 2020, which illuminated a racial reckoning amidst the backdrop of police brutality, the stories of families being separated at the border, missing indigenous women, and the trauma of political disenfranchisement of communities of color, all exacerbated by the trauma and triggers of seeing Black and Brown lives brutalized, you’ll explore how we can all remain more aware and active, while also protecting our peace and mental health.

Lead by Virginia Cumberbatch and Meagan Harding, the co-founders of Rosa Rebellion, “a platform for creative activism by and for women of color,” the session will offer space for collective exploration of what it looks like to show up as a co-agitator in your sphere of influence. The Rosa Rebellion team invites you to join the call for Austin to invest in the work of racial justice through intentional labor, and elevate the voices of women of color. 

Read Virginia and Meagan’s appeal to Austin and the country that we cannot ignore if we are to live up to our full potential — as people and as a city, in the latest issue of Tribeza.