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Dare to Speak is a captivating duo of two dear friends and award-winning spoken word poets, Carlos Andrés Gómez and Katie Kramer, who have dedicated their lives and careers to creating community and promoting equity through poetry. Collaborators for over a decade, Carlos and Katie are invested in transforming your school into an equitable and inclusive ecosystem. No matter the environment, identities matter. Katie has toured LGBTQIA2S+ festivals and conferences across the country, as well as being a member of a National Poetry Slam Championship team, a finalist at the Women of the World Poetry Slam, short listed for the World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship Competition and she took second place at The Moth Grandslam storytelling contest. Katie is a loud advocate for trans rights, feminism, mental health awareness and doing your darndest to find love through it all. Never afraid of the difficult truths, her show is one part pride parade, one part therapy session, one part rally cry and a million parts healing. Carlos is a Colombian American poet and educator who was a former social worker and public school teacher. Named 2016 Best Diversity Artist by Campus Activities Magazine and a star of HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam,” Carlos’ work advocates for healthier and more inclusive models of masculinities and gender, as well as a more just and humane world for all. Combined, Katie and Carlos have performed and keynoted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities across 49 U.S. States and toured 26 countries across the globe.
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Writing Through: Storytelling through Social Justice (45-60 minutes)
This writing workshop will challenge participants to use personal experience as a means of grappling with social inequity and exclusion: whether it be as a means of identifying and bearing witness to examples of discrimination (interpersonal or systemic) or providing an opportunity to examine instances of being complicit with or responsible for prejudice and discrimination. This session will be generative and allow participants the opportunity to voluntarily share their work, with facilitated support and guidance throughout.
Reimagining Gender: Beyond Socialized Roles, Beyond the Binary (45-60 minutes)
This interactive workshop will examine the ways in which we have been taught to think about gender. More specifically: what gendered expectations and assumptions have we internalized? And how do those ideas impact how we think about ourselves, navigate the world, and interact with each other? How are new paradigms subverting outdated clichés like the rigid gender binary and prescribed gender roles? How do our other identities (i.e. race, sexuality, socioeconomic status, nationality, religion, etc.) impact how we understand and experience gender? Using history, intersectionality, and personal experience as frames for discussion, participants will collectively explore these and other concepts.
Our Intersecting Selves: Diversity, Identity, Equity, & Inclusion (45-60 minutes)
This interactive workshop will explore how our intersecting social identities impact how each of us experiences the world. We will interrogate historical legacies of structural inequity and the unearned privilege and access that accompany it. Moreover, we will investigate the ways in which some identities enable us to wield unearned structural power, while others, simultaneously, make us susceptible to systemic and interpersonal discrimination. Using history, intersectionality, and personal experience as frames for discussion, participants will collectively explore these and other concepts.
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Dare to Speak is a captivating duo of two dear friends and award-winning spoken word poets, Carlos Andrés Gómez and Katie Kramer, who have dedicated their lives and careers to creating community and promoting equity through poetry. Collaborators for over a decade, Carlos and Katie are invested in transforming your school into an equitable and inclusive ecosystem. No matter the environment, identities matter. Katie has toured LGBTQIA2S+ festivals and conferences across the country, as well as being a member of a National Poetry Slam Championship team, a finalist at the Women of the World Poetry Slam, short listed for the World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship Competition and she took second place at The Moth Grandslam storytelling contest. Katie is a loud advocate for trans rights, feminism, mental health awareness and doing your darndest to find love through it all. Never afraid of the difficult truths, her show is one part pride parade, one part therapy session, one part rally cry and a million parts healing. Carlos is a Colombian American poet and educator who was a former social worker and public school teacher. Named 2016 Best Diversity Artist by Campus Activities Magazine and a star of HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam,” Carlos’ work advocates for healthier and more inclusive models of masculinities and gender, as well as a more just and humane world for all. Combined, Katie and Carlos have performed and keynoted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities across 49 U.S. States and toured 26 countries across the globe.
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Dare to Speak is a captivating duo of two dear friends and award-winning spoken word poets, Carlos Andrés Gómez and Katie Kramer, who have dedicated their lives and careers to creating community and promoting equity through poetry. Collaborators for over a decade, Carlos and Katie are invested in transforming your school into an equitable and inclusive ecosystem. No matter the environment, identities matter. Katie has toured LGBTQIA2S+ festivals and conferences across the country, as well as being a member of a National Poetry Slam Championship team, a finalist at the Women of the World Poetry Slam, short listed for the World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship Competition and she took second place at The Moth Grandslam storytelling contest. Katie is a loud advocate for trans rights, feminism, mental health awareness and doing your darndest to find love through it all. Never afraid of the difficult truths, her show is one part pride parade, one part therapy session, one part rally cry and a million parts healing. Carlos is a Colombian American poet and educator who was a former social worker and public school teacher. Named 2016 Best Diversity Artist by Campus Activities Magazine and a star of HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam,” Carlos’ work advocates for healthier and more inclusive models of masculinities and gender, as well as a more just and humane world for all. Combined, Katie and Carlos have performed and keynoted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities across 49 U.S. States and toured 26 countries across the globe.
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