Important Dates

Event: January 7-11, 2024

Gathering Location

Whitley Hotel
Atlanta, GA

Leadership Team

Lynne Westfield
Director
Wabash Center

Participants

Courtney Bryant,  Manhattan College
Kimberly Russaw, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Shively Smith, Boston University

Description

The meeting will be a peer conversation and collaboration focused on the emotional labor of womanist scholars when working in toxic academic spaces infused with patriarchy, misogyny, and illness. We will reflect upon such questions as:

• In what ways is the politics of inferiority debilitating and unbearable?
• What does it mean for womanist scholars to learn to work smart and not work to our own demise?
• What is resilience?
• What are we building for one another?
• How can community, friendships, and comradery assist with what we are building?