Black Intersections: a Black History Month conversation on Black Intersectionality
We invite you to join us for ActionDignity’ s Second Annual Black Intersections event. We are building on the conversations from last year’s Black Intersectionality Panel to include more topics that aren’t discussed enough within Calgary. We learned from the last year’s event that community members want to have more opportunities to talk about their specific experience. 
In order to ensure that the space is as accountable and respectful as possible, we have designed the event to have open space discussions that will be moderated by various facilitators. Participants can choose to attend the breakout sessions that interest them and move from each group as freely as they wish. Hope to see you there! RSVP here:
This space is accepting of all-types of difference, and all attendees have a right to feel safe regardless of age, ancestry, colour, family status, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental disability, physical disability, place of origin, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or source of income (Alberta Human Rights Act). To this end, we will not tolerate abusive or discriminatory behaviour, please know that such behaviour is grounds for removal from the event. If you witness abusive or discriminatory behaviour please speak with a member of staff.
Agenda
5:30-6:15 – Registration and dinner
6:15-6:30 – opening remarks
6:30 – 7:15 – breakout session 1
7:15-8:00 – breakout session 2
8:00-8:45 – breakout session 3
8:45-9:00 – closing remarks
Breakout Sessions:
Breakout Session 1
Colorism in the Black community
Sizeism in the Black community
Cultural Appropriation
Breakout Session 2
Black LGBTQ Identities
Internalized Racism
Cultural Appropriation
Breakout Session 3
Parenting while Black
Black Mental Health
The Black Diaspora
Dinner will be provided
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Accessibility Information:
Wheelchair accessible space
Bus tickets available upon request
Childminding available upon request
Scent-reduced space*
Gender neutral washrooms
Please let us know if there are any other ways that we can make this event accessible.
*Please do not use heavily scented lotion, cologne, etc. to the event.
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The event will be taking place on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations). Moh’kins’tsis, named by the Blackfoot where the Bow River meets the Elbow, is also home to the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
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