Over the next six months, I am working with Ragged Wing Ensemble to create a performance called the Multiverse. As the process coach, I support the performers and director in recognizing the interpersonal dynamics that play out for many of us in mixed race spaces. The participants are an extremely diverse group of folx—race, gender, … Continue reading Nonviolence and Honesty
Boundaries and Intersections
I work with a lot of artists. In fact, some days I remember that I am an artist too. Not just the days that I am struggling to make a sequence beautiful as well as functional, but also the days I arrange my garden, or redecorate my living room. Sometimes, I am reminded that I … Continue reading Boundaries and Intersections
Call to Action
The point of my work, why I do the things I do, is to make the world a safer place for my son. He was my point of radicalization. He is what gets me up in the morning and keeps me moving when I am tired of talking to white people about how to do … Continue reading Call to Action
Habits and Change
My work in social justice and yoga has dovetailed a number of occasions over the last 5 years. More often, I find myself in spaces where we talk about spirit and demonstrate our long held physical tensions as parallels for the tensions in the world. How can one do effective public work if their internal … Continue reading Habits and Change
Radical Classrooms
Bobby Biedrzycki is a writer, performer, educator, and transnational human rights activist who resides in Chicago, IL. His stories, poems, and performances have appeared on pages, stages, and public spaces across the U.S. and beyond. His work is rooted in cross-disciplinary art making that focuses on creating social change. _____________________________________________ “The classroom remains the most … Continue reading Radical Classrooms
Identifying with the Oppressor
"Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not … Continue reading Identifying with the Oppressor
Holding Space
Cultivating agreements that support equitable spaces model the lessons that you would like for folks to learn. It also models the way you expect to be treated and how you expect others will support one another. Many call these agreements norms. As in, what are we normalizing in this space, what can we agree on … Continue reading Holding Space
25 Ways to be part of the Resistance
1. Believe in humanity, no matter what you hear, no matter what you read. 2. Believe that we will create a world that is equitable. 3. Believe that you are part of the solution. THEN, act on it. 4. Touch the earth, ask for her help, breath with her. Love her. 5. Be open to paradox. Many things … Continue reading 25 Ways to be part of the Resistance
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