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🎬 Take the Stage: Introduce Yourself!
Welcome to Deconstructing Race, Racism & Theatre! Drop: 🎭 Your name & pronouns 📍 Where you’re joining from 🖤 One reason you joined 📸 A photo of your workspace, rehearsal room, or favorite creative corner Bonus: If your life were a play right now, what would this chapter be called?
🎬 Take the Stage: Introduce Yourself!
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Doing the Work is available in the Classroom tab!
The foundational course designed to help you build real understanding of how race and racism actually function, beyond surface-level conversations, good intentions, or personal anecdotes. This course breaks down key concepts like systemic racism, power, racialization, and harm, while challenging common myths and misunderstandings that keep people stuck. You’ll learn how racism operates not just through individual actions, but through systems, structures, and everyday participation, and how to recognize your role within that without collapsing into defensiveness or avoidance. This course centers impact over intent, and gives you the language, frameworks, and self-awareness needed to engage responsibly in conversations about race. 👉 Doing the Work is the recommended starting point before taking more applied courses like the Allyship Toolbox. Want to learn more about Deconstructing Race, Racism and Theater? Take the course. This isn’t about perfection or being seen as “good.” It’s about building the clarity and capacity to show up differently, consistently, and with accountability.
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Sliding Scale: Making Learning Accessible for Everyone
💛 Education should be accessible. In this economy, groceries are expensive. Rent is still due. Existing is expensive. We can all use a break. I never want cost or financial barriers to be the reason someone can't access this work. That's why I offer flexible options for my courses: ✨ Pay what you can if that's what works for your budget. ✨ Can't pay right now? That's okay. Reach out and let me know you plan to pay later. ✨ Need a payment plan? Let's work something out together. I'd rather find a solution than turn someone away. ✨ Scholarships are available for those who need them. At the same time, I want to honor that labor has value. Creating courses, research, resources, graphics, and community spaces takes time, energy, and care. If you're able to contribute financially, your support helps make this work sustainable and helps me continue offering scholarships and flexible pricing to others. My goal isn't gatekeeping knowledge. My goal is getting knowledge into the hands of people who want to learn, grow, heal, and do the work. If cost is the barrier, send me a message. We'll figure something out. 💛 The priority is education, empowerment, and accessibility—please pay whatever feels right for you, and know that every contribution helps support broader access to these materials.
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A Black Mother on the verdict
Valarie asks Parents to read and respond, so I'll do the same. What do you hear this mother saying? What meaning does it have for you? Here's the post: ___________________________________ I am going to say this, then I’m off of it, and off social media for a while: As a Black mother who raised Black sons, the verdict has stirred up emotions that have very little to do with one case and everything to do with a reality many of us have lived. I sacrificed for the education of my children. Because I could not afford private school, I drove six children to four different schools because I believed access mattered. I believed environment mattered. I believed opportunity mattered. Eventually, I moved my family to Allen (in Collin County) because it was considered at the time, one of the best school districts in the nation. What I learned was that academic opportunity and emotional safety are not always the same thing. My son’s first major disciplinary issue came from being late to class. Something that might have earned detention elsewhere resulted in placement in an alternative setting. And once he was sent there, something else happened that many people don’t talk about. He found people who looked like him. Children who had been labeled. Children who had been separated. Children who had already begun carrying the weight of other people’s assumptions. In many ways, they became family to one another. Not because they were bad children, but because they shared a common experience. They knew what it felt like to stand on the outside looking in. When a child feels rejected by one community, they will almost always build another. Years later, one fight, one interpretation of events, and one decision resulted in a felony charge that followed him long after childhood was over, and eventually landed him inside of the prison system. So when I look at situations involving young men of color, I cannot help but think about the things that happen before the headlines. The isolation.
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A Black Mother on the verdict
Proof of Freedom
The “Black Laws” demanded that Black Ohioans carry a portable argument for their own humanity—then made the courtroom deaf to it. If you stood on Portsmouth’s public landing in the 1830s—watching the Ohio River carry flatboats, ferries, and rumors—you would have learned quickly that borders are not only geography. They are paperwork. They are who can speak and who must stay silent. They are the price of moving through a place that calls itself “free.” Portsmouth sat at a confluence, the Scioto pouring into the Ohio, a watery intersection that made the town commercially significant and morally exposed. Across the river lay Kentucky, a slave state whose economic and political gravity pulled at southern Ohio. On the Ohio side, statehood came with a promise: slavery was prohibited. But that promise was paired—almost immediately—with a different legal project: making Black life administratively fragile. Ohio’s “Black Laws,” begun in 1804 and sharpened in 1807, were designed to discourage Black settlement and to restrict the rights of Black residents already there. They demanded proof of freedom, required registration with local officials, imposed financial barriers that were enormous by any working standard, and barred Black testimony in cases involving white parties—an exclusion that effectively told Black Ohioans: even if you are free, the law will not reliably hear you. Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/02/26/proof-of-freedom/
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