Please mark your calendars for YWCA Olympia’s 2021 Racial Justice Events Series! Registration is open for the January Book Discussion and February’s Womxn of Achievement celebration. Registration will open soon for April – Decemeber 2021 events. January’s Book Discussion (When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir – Click To Learn More… Continue Reading 2021 RJ Event Series: Upcoming Events
Womxn of Achievement With Special Guest Patrisse Cullors For the 26th year, YWCA Olympia is excited to celebrate inspiring South Sound community members during our annual Womxn of Achievement Celebration on Friday, February 19, 2021 (this is a reschedule of the postponed November 6, 2020 event). As part of our collective work of bringing about… Continue Reading 2021 RJ Event Series: Womxn of Achievement – February 19
Leading up to YWCA Olympia’s Womxn of Achievement (February 19) where Patrisse will be our guest speaker, we’ll be reading and discussing their book: When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. (From the Book): “Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the… Continue Reading 2021 RJ Event Series: January Book Discussion – Jan 23rd, 26th & 29th
YWCA Olympia: A Center for Healing in Community, Antiracist Education and Participant-Led Advocacy. We are excited to launch the 2021 Racial Justice Event Series. YWCA Olympia wants to engage the community in an ongoing process of learning and action around how to dismantle racism and other intersecting forms of oppression. Through workshops, speakers, arts events… Continue Reading Announcing Our 2021 Racial Justice Event Series