Knowledge Share Description
In honor and appreciation of the history, knowledge, and leadership of Black farmers and land stewards, this knowledge share sheds light on the richness of Black culture in what is contemporarily called “sustainability.” The mainstream sustainability industry has purposefully excluded Black history from its teachings, but in a conversation about race and power, Sha’Mira illuminates how Blackness, spirituality, and sustainability are interconnected and a part of a long legacy of Black liberation praxis. In this workshop, participants will reflect, journal, and discuss their own sustainability principles and practices and learn the intersections to radical Black environmental stewardship. The discussion will celebrate the importance of history and heritage to contemporary sustainability praxis.
We will explore:
History of Black land stewardship
The blueprint for growing food and growing community
How to deprogram exclusionary conceptions of sustainability
Cost
$35 - low income
$50 - standard
$75 - pay-it-forward (if you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)
The zoom link will be sent upon registration. Recording will be available for 30 days.
Please apply here for a scholarship.
Accessibility Information
*ASR (automated) captioning provided
Virtual Gathering
The knowledge share zoom link will be sent out immediately upon purchase, along with any other necessary information.
3:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.
Facilitator
Sha’Mira Covington, PhD, is an artist-scholar, yogi, pole dancer, and liberationist. Her work explores fashion as an embodied cultural, historical, social, and political phenomenon involved in and affected by histories of colonial domination, anti-colonial resistance, and processes of decolonization and globalization. Her personal, artistic, and spiritual work is informed and guided by her ancestors, communities in which she lives, nature, Spirit, and love.