Embrace Bend’s Do the Work Study Group is a space for White people and other majority groups to explore race, racism, and White Supremacy without accidentally harming non-White or non-dominant groups in the process. Embrace Bend will facilitate discussion around a specific topic by journaling, sharing stories, and working through outside resources like books, articles,…

Each quarter OSU-Cascades Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is hosting a 12-week book discussion group. These weekly conversations are designed to be drop-in and are open to OSU-Cascades students, staff and faculty as well as community members. This summer, we’re reading Ijeoma Oluo’s “So You Want to Talk About Race.”  Meeting and reading schedule…

How is our practice a resource for moving into the world rather than avoiding it? How can our love of humanity be the ground from which we address racism, injustice, and oppression? If you identify as white, how can we fully see our role in maintaining systems of oppression so that we may let them…