Site and Program Committee Sponsored: We Who Believe in Freedom: Organizing for Black Liberation This Time (featuring BYP100)

Session Submission Type: Non-Paper Session: Dialogue Format

Abstract

The Black Youth Project's activist arm, BYP100, is a member-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. BYP100 is a collective focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy and education using a Black queer feminist lens.

This session focuses on BYP100's attention to both self-healing and communal healing as instrumental to the sustainability of organizing work. BYP100 includes a Healing and Safety council that address interpersonal conflict but also provides education and training on how to carry out the self-work given all the oppression faced by black people. This round-table session will bring some of those factors, practices, and strategies forward for our collective consideration.

Sub Unit

• American Studies Association Annual Meeting

Chair

• Kai M. Green, Williams College

Panelists

• Kai M. Green, Williams College

• Valerie Papillon, Independent Scholar

• Charlene Carruthers, BYP100

• Je'Nae Taylor, BYP100

• Ife Williams, BYP100