[Raíces]Raíces Meeting Today! 5:30-7pm (dinner served)

[Xavier Torres de Janon]

Hello everyone! 

Raíces will begin meeting again today at 5:30PM, at the Cultural Center.
Bring a friend! 

Dinner will be served. We will be checking in and updating everyone on
how the planning of our upcoming regional conference is going
(http://nelslc.com/). Additionally, if you are interested in stepping up
as a signer, please let us know ASAP! 

RAÍCES THURSDAY MEETINGS ARE CLOSED SPACES FOR NONWHITE LATINX STUDENTS.
See below for an explanation. 

Hope your semester is going well! 

Your signers,
Alyssa (anp14), Yesenia (yep12) and Xavier (xat12) 

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Raíces is dedicated to promoting a safe space for Latinxs under the
activism and values of SOURCE. As such, our weekly student group
meetings are closed for members of the Latinx diaspora who are committed
to stand up against oppression, colonialism, and whiteness. Although it
is definitely meant to be a place for self-exploration and questioning,
our weekly meetings are to be centered on true liberation and healing. 

'Latinx' (utilized to avoid the gender of 'Latin@' and interrogate the
term itself) is an ethnicity based around common cultural ideas, and is
not a 'race.' A such, you can be a white Latinx (and benefit from the
histories and institutions of white privilege), an indigenous Latinx
(and be scarred by genocide and assimilation), or a black Latinx (and be
affected by slavery and the police state); colonial realities has indeed
made most of us mixes of it all, with blackness and indigineity
forgotten or invisibilized. 

Our space seeks to be dedicated to the pieces that have been oppressed
and marginalized, not on whiteness and Eurocentric thought. 
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