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Welcome to Solidarity Healing September

Image description: Youtube still of Founding Director of Reclaim UGLY, Vanessa Rochelle Lewis – a fat, Black woman in her thirties on a purple galaxy background.

Events by Date
Week 1 (9/1-9/6) | Week 2 (9/7-9/13) | Week 4 (9/14-9/20) | Week 4 (9/21-9/27) | Week 5 (9/28-9/30) | Private

Events by Type
Interactive | Non-interactive | Family-friendly or specifically for children | Creative | Healing From ______ | Educational | Movement, Mindfulness, Meditation, Breath Work | Performance | Sermon, Lecture, or Spiritual Service | Sensual, Erotic, & 18+ | Sacred Emergent Gathering Space

Interactive

A fat White cis woman, smiling slightly, in front of a white wall.
Image description: The head & shoulders of a slightly smiling fat, White cis woman with long brown hair, red lipstick, & glasses, in front of a white wall.

Embracing Not Enough With Kate Lammers (private event)

“I dearly wish for us all to move toward more healing, compassion, and liberation. And I am honored to support a healing event that centers the needs of Black people.”
–Kate Lammers

collage of four pictures of white people
Collage of four white people: in the upper left, a person with wispy blonde hair wearing a black shirt under a pink sweatshirt looking directly into the camera and smiling slightly with leafy green bushes in the background; in the upper right, a person with long brown hair blowing across their face, looking directly into the camera with bright sun lighting them up from the right; in the lower right, a person with long wavy brown hair chanting and marching in a sparkly silver leotard and carrying a sign that reads “Let’s Find Refuge in Community, Not Cops”; in the lower left, a person with short brown hair and smiling eyes who is wearing a fabric mask with Dorothy Allison on it.

White Healing Conversations (private event)

“We want to see a world in which all living beings can thrive! We are committed to doing the external work to dismantle systems of white supremacy that foreclose that thriving. But what do we create in the place of those systems? In order to avoid replicating the same dysfunction in what we create, we have to heal from the ways our bodies, minds, and spirits have been misshapen by the myth of white supremacy. We are so grateful for Vanessa Lewis’s call to do this work!”
–Nichola, Max, Dawn and Cecilia

Paint-plattered red pink and white background, text reads: Sacred Fragments Online Voice Class, Sept. 5, 5-6:30 pm PT.
Image description: A paint-plattered background of reds, pinks and whites, with dark maroon jaggedy text that reads Sacred Fragments Online Voice Class, Sept. 5, 5-6:30 pm PT. There are crown-like symmetrical embellishments above and below the text.

Sacred Fragments Online Voice Class With Nomy Lamm

“I want to dedicate the work of my heart and hands toward honoring and uplifting Black voices, bodies, and communities. It is my pleasure to be given an opportunity to be of service.”
–Nomy Lamm

Event Date and Time
Saturday, September 5, 5-6:30 PM PT

Background: starry sky over mountains
Image description: Background: starry sky over mountains Text reads: Blocked But Not Forgotten: Lost and Damaged Relationships in the Orange Era A Storytelling Event on Saturday, September 5 at 6 pm PT; 9 pm ET While our vision of a better world demands that we speak out, the pain of knowing that the people closest to us don’t share or understand our truth can be huge. Join us for true stories about losing relationships with loved ones. $0 – $100 NOTAFLOF sliding scale to support Black Healing October Register at: https://tinyurl.com/yye87zn9

Blocked but not Forgotten: Lost and Damaged Relationships in the Orange Era With Amy Benson-Calloway and Alex Gino

“Black liberation is central to all people’s liberation, and as white people, we seek to be actively anti-racist by supporting Black people’s movements, including raising funds for Black movements, as well as pursuing our own healing and the healing of other white people around us from white supremacy.”
–Amy Benson-Calloway and Alex Gino

Event Date and Time
Saturday, September 5, 6-7:30 PM PT

heart-shaped tree. Text: When I Fell In Love with Myself. Please join Reclaim UGLY for storytellers and speed friend dating on Saturday, September 12th
Image description: cloudy blue sky with red earth in the background, a heart shaped tree of red leaves in the foreground. Text on top reads: When I Fell In Love with Myself. Please join Reclaim UGLY for storytellers and speed friend dating on Saturday, September 12th.

When I Fell In Love with Myself: Love Is An Action Storytelling Panel & Friend Speed Dating After Party

Event Date and Time
Saturday, September 12, 4-7:15 PM PT

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT Storytelling Panel (Zoom webinar with ASL interpretation)
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM PT Break
6:15 PM – 7:15 PM PT Friend Speed Dating (Zoom meeting with breakout rooms; no ASL interpretation)

Join for either or both!

Text reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Bring Your Parents! An Intergenerational Gathering for White Families, with Anna Ostow on Sunday, 9/13 @12pm PST. www.BlackHealingOctober.org with photo of Anna Ostow
Text on top reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Photo of Anna Ostow, a freckled white Jew. Side 2, light skin hands holding a heart. Text: Bring Your Parents! An Intergenerational Gathering for White Families, with Anna Ostow on Sunday, 9/13 @12pm PST. http://www.BlackHealingOctober.org

Bring your parents! An Intergenerational Gathering for White Families With Anna Ostow

“I want white people to seek and ultimately find where our stake lies in racial justice and the Movement for Black Lives, to find and hold dear how our liberation is bound up in the liberation of others. That is where I find meaning and its what brings me joy. Solidarity Healing September and Black Healing October makes all these connections explicit–that our healing is linked, that my healing can support your healing and vice versa, and allows for a beautiful sharing and distribution of resources in the direction so that one day every single person without exception will have the healing they need and deserve.”
–Anna Ostow

Event Date and Time
Sunday, September 13, 12-1:30 PM PT

A variety of musubis with text OMUSUBI 4 BLACK LIVES: A CONVERSATION (PART 2) SUNDAY 9/13
Image description: Photo of a variety of musubis with text “OMUSUBI 4 BLACK LIVES” in yellow. “A CONVERSATION” in green. “(PART 2)” in red. “SUNDAY 9/13” in light green

Omusubis 4 Black Lives: A Conversation (Part 2)

“We care deeply about the well being of our Black comrades and family and want to support healing for our loved ones, including our Queer and Trans Japanese diasporic communities!”
–Omusubis 4 Black Lives

Event Date and Time
Sunday, September 13, 4-6 PM PT

Dancing Gender; Interested in exploring gender through movement? In this workshop we will use the tools of dance, improv, and joyful movement to explore our personal and unique expressions of gender. Join us as we dive into our own experiences of femininity, masculinity, and all the countless experiences of gender that defy categorization! Open to anyone interested in exploring their own gender expression, regardless of dance or improv experience!
Pictured: A flyer with a color gradient that moves from pink to blue to turquoise. It has white text that reads “Dancing Gender; Interested in exploring gender through movement? In this workshop we will use the tools of dance, improv, and joyful movement to explore our personal and unique expressions of gender. Join us as we dive into our own experiences of femininity, masculinity, and all the countless experiences of gender that defy categorization! Open to anyone interested in exploring their own gender expression, regardless of dance or improv experience!”

Dancing Gender With Taylor Garrison

“Solidarity Healing September is important to me because I believe in the power of finding one’s superpower and using it in the path towards collective liberation. The idea that I could share space and ideas with other gender-questioning people AND it could be in service to Black healers and community is amazing! I’m so excited to create these spaces and start these journeys together!”
–Taylor Garrison

Event Date and Time
Thursday, September 17, 4-6 PM PT

Flyer for Asians4BlackLives + Herbal Medicine. Text reads: An informative workshop on plant allies, interdependence, and solidarity as part of Reclaim UGLY's Solidarity Healing September. Sunday, September 20th, 1-2:30pm PST on Zoom. suggested donation $25-50, no one turned away! funds will go directly towards Black Healing October! Register at bit.ly/A4BL-0920. Sketches of plants and flowers.
Image description: Flyer for Asians4BlackLives + Herbal Medicine. Text reads: An informative workshop on plant allies, interdependence, and solidarity as part of Reclaim UGLY’s Solidarity Healing September. Sunday, September 20th, 1-2:30pm PST on Zoom. suggested donation $25-50, no one turned away! funds will go directly towards Black Healing October! Register at bit.ly/A4BL-0920. Sketches of plants and flowers border the graphic.

Asians4BlackLives + Herbal Medicine: Supporting Emotional Wellness to Sustain the Movement

“As A4BL, we are committed to being in solidarity with and supporting Black healing and liberation. We understand that our liberation is interconnected.”
–Asians 4 Black Lives

Event Date and Time
Sunday, September 20, 1-2:30 PM PT

White page surrounded by pens and plant reads "Dear Me: A Love Letter to Myself..."
Image description – Text reads: “Dear Me: A Love Letter to Myself…” Text is written in cursive on a white piece of paper, which is on a light brown background and is surrounded by calligraphy pens, a jar of black ink, and long green plants. In small text on the bottom, it reads: “Photo by Kelly Sikkema – inkypixelsdesign.com”

Dear Me: A Love Letter to Myself With Anna Flurry (she/her/hers)

“Participating in Black Healing October and Solidarity Healing September is important to me because I believe that in order to grow as interconnected, caring communities, we must learn about ourselves and the world that we live in, and we must heal from the toxicity of white supremacy and oppressive hierarchies, as well as from the harm that we have survived and caused. The more we heal ourselves, the more we heal the world, and the more we heal the world, the more we heal ourselves. They are one and the same. And so we will grow these outwardly spiraling, tessalating networks of caring communities engaging in healing and educating practices, and we will build the liberated world that we dream of.”
–Anna Flurry

Event Date and Time
Sunday, September 20, 4-6 PM PT

A Black woman and a white woman embedded in layers of a painting. Text overlaid: The One Truthiness — TRUST.
Image description: A Black woman and a white woman embedded in layers of a painting. The painted figures are of many different sizes, falling and looking out and struggling. Text overlaid: The One Truthiness — TRUST.

The One Truthiness — TRUST by Charlie Levin #1

“Racism and othering undermine whole swaths of people at the most fundamental levels of identity and belonging. The One Truthiness seeks to bring people together as we are, with our strengths and wounds.”
–Charlie Levin

Event Date and Time
Friday, September 25, 6-8 PM PT

Flyer "What is our relationship to Blackness? / A workshop for Psychiatric Survivors / Solidarity Healing September"
Image description: The image is a collage considting of three squares in front of a grey background. In the bottom left corner, there is a yellow box, with the handwritten words: “What is our relationship to Blackness? / A workshop for Psychiatric Survivors / Solidarity Healing September 2020.” Next to it, on the right there is a photo of a white woman’s face and chest. She has blue glasses and is looking somewhere to the left of the camera, her expression something between a smile and a frown. She is wearing a light grey scarf, a turquoise hoodie and a black windbreaker. In the background there are parked cars and an apartment building. At the bottom of the flyer there is a print, where white lines are etched into the black surface, showing a sketch of a hospital bed with a restraining belt, disparate limbs, and the words “STOP THE ABUSE!” Below the print, it is written: https://entisolieren.de

A Workshop for Psychiatric Survivors With Johanna Rothe

“When I read about Black Healing October and Solidarity Healing September, the whole concept struck me immediately as right. Through its financial structure it acknowledges that Black and white and non-Black people of color are positioned radically different in this world. At the same time it is so welcoming and affirming of potentially everybody’s capacity to contribute something valuable.”
–Johanna Rothe

Event Date and Time
Saturday, September 26, 9-11 AM PT

White text over the image of a starry night sky reads: Moving Towards Collective Liberation A workshop for white Direct Service Providers. Below reads: Workshop Objectives: Identify our stake in dismantling external and internal white supremacy. Practice new tools to notice, process and respond to our experiences. Develop resources to stay in alignment with anti-racist values in our lives and work. Facilitated by Sonia Decker & Emily Cobbey.
A banner at the top of the image shows ornament-like gold stars against a black background. Below that, an image of a starry night sky with black, blue and pink coloring, and white lettering reading: Moving Towards Collective Liberation A workshop for white Direct Service Providers. Below and to the left, in smaller white font, it says: Workshop Objectives: Identify our stake in dismantling external and internal white supremacy Practice new tools to notice, process and respond to our experiences Develop resources to stay in alignment with anti-racist values in our lives and work. At the bottom right of the image in small, white font, it says: Facilitated by Sonia Decker & Emily Cobbey.

Moving Towards Collective Liberation: A Workshop for White-Identified Direct Service Providers With Sonia Decker, AMFT and Emily Cobbey, ASW

“We are very excited about being able to financially support space facilitated by Black healers, for Black people! We believe that our healing is all connected and that as white people, we must work to examine and heal the ways in which white supremacy lives in us. We know that any healing work we do within ourselves and with other white folks is a vital part of what we can do to move towards collective liberation. We are excited that Solidarity healing September gives us the opportunity to engage in action on many levels, including directly supporting Black folks as well as engaging with other white folks.”
–Sonia Decker and Emily Cobbey

Event Date and Time
Saturday, September 26, 1-4 PM PT

Two headshots superimposed on sparkly background: Encian on bottom-left, Meg on top-right.
Image description: Two headshots superimposed over a sparkly fairy dust / space background. Encian, on bottom-left, has short, curly brown hair, red cravat, black shirt. Meg, on top-right, has short, gray hair, red necklace and earrings, black shirt. Both have white skin and are smiling.

Packing the Invisible Waistpack: Magical Tools for Anti-Racist Action With Encian Pastel and Meg Thomas

“I am participating in Black Healing October and Solidarity Healing September as an act of reparations and to help create the collective virtual spaces and networks I need to hold me as I teach my body to move through white shame, guilt, anxiety and dissociation. I’m participating in order to retrain my body to find joy and presence in this struggle.”
–Encian Pastel

“As a white woman living in the US, it is deeply important for me to stand in solidarity with Black, Indigenous and Brown people.  If I fail to do that, the world I dream of will surely not come.  If I fail to do that, my own world will be less rooted.”
–Meg Thomas

Event Date and Time
Sunday, September 27th, 11am – 1pm PT

A Black woman and a white woman embedded in layers of a painting. Text overlaid: The One Truthiness — TRUST.
Image description: A Black woman and a white woman embedded in layers of a painting. The painted figures are of many different sizes, falling and looking out and struggling. Text overlaid: The One Truthiness — TRUST.

The One Truthiness — TRUST by Charlie Levin #2

“Racism and othering undermine whole swaths of people at the most fundamental levels of identity and belonging. The One Truthiness seeks to bring people together as we are, with our strengths and wounds.”
–Charlie Levin

Event Date and Time
Sunday, September 27, 11 AM-1 PM PT

comMUSIKey logo. Text below reads: Music is the key to community. Images of people playing music and dancing on the letters.
Image description: comMUSIKey in large different colored letters with little people playing music and dancing on the letters. Text below reads: Music is the key to community.

Every Body Music for Every Body With Jonathan Best

“I have become hyper aware in the last few months of how much it hurts to participate in a system built from the ground up upon racism. Every little bit I participate in dismantling this system feels uplifting. Because using music to bring people together has been central to my adult life I jump at every opportunity to use it in this struggle.”
–Jonathan Best

Event Date and Time
Monday, September 28, 5-7 PM PT

Reclaim UGLY's Solidarity Healing September presents A Rage Lit By Love flyer
Image description: A red outline of hands, palms up and open, cup a collage of yellow and red fire that sprouts red, pink, and purple hearts and blue smoke. There is an ASL Interpretation symbol. Text reads: Reclaim UGLY’s Solidarity Healing September presents A Rage Lit By Love. Guided meditation with Vanessa Lewis, Sound Healing with Erica Richardson, Full Moon Release Ritual with Caleb Luna, Tender Open Mic/Community Sharing Circle. September 30th, 4:30 Pm – 6:30 PM PT. Learn More at http://www.BlackHealingOctober.org.

A Rage Lit By Love: Guided Meditation, Sound Healing, Full Moon Release Ritual, and Community Sharing Circle

Event Date and Time
Wednesday, September 30, 4:30-6:30 PM PT
ASL Interpretation Included

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Non-interactive

Text reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Community Grounding, reconnect and recharge on Mondays @10am PST with Rainbow Marifrog. www.BlackHealingOctober.org with image of Rainbow Marifrog.
Text on top reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Side 1, image of Rainbow Marifrog smiling in nature. Side 2, a rainbow with white script reads, Community Grounding, reconnect and recharge on Mondays @10am PST with Rainbow Marifrog. http://www.BlackHealingOctober.org

Community Grounding With Rainbow Marifrog #1

“I am so honored to be participating in this healing event. As a white, cis woman I walk this earth with a lot of privilege. I am joyful and inspired to use my privilege to support my BIPOC friends, family, neighbors, and community members and to completely eradicate racism. Thank you!”
–Rainbow Marifrog

Event Date and Time
Monday, September 7, 10-10:45 AM PT

Text reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Community Grounding, reconnect and recharge on Mondays @10am PST with Rainbow Marifrog. www.BlackHealingOctober.org with image of Rainbow Marifrog.
Text on top reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Side 1, image of Rainbow Marifrog smiling in nature. Side 2, a rainbow with white script reads, Community Grounding, reconnect and recharge on Mondays @10am PST with Rainbow Marifrog. http://www.BlackHealingOctober.org

Community Grounding With Rainbow Marifrog #2

“I am so honored to be participating in this healing event. As a white, cis woman I walk this earth with a lot of privilege. I am joyful and inspired to use my privilege to support my BIPOC friends, family, neighbors, and community members and to completely eradicate racism. Thank you!”
–Rainbow Marifrog

Event Date and Time
Monday, September 14, 10-10:45 AM PT

Text reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Community Grounding, reconnect and recharge on Mondays @10am PST with Rainbow Marifrog. www.BlackHealingOctober.org with image of Rainbow Marifrog.
Text on top reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Side 1, image of Rainbow Marifrog smiling in nature. Side 2, a rainbow with white script reads, Community Grounding, reconnect and recharge on Mondays @10am PST with Rainbow Marifrog. http://www.BlackHealingOctober.org

Community Grounding With Rainbow Marifrog #3

“I am so honored to be participating in this healing event. As a white, cis woman I walk this earth with a lot of privilege. I am joyful and inspired to use my privilege to support my BIPOC friends, family, neighbors, and community members and to completely eradicate racism. Thank you!”
–Rainbow Marifrog

Event Date and Time
Monday, September 21, 10-10:45 AM PT

a picture of a smiling white cis woman, with hair pulled back and wearing blue glasses and a denim shirt.
Image description: a picture of a smiling white cis woman, with hair pulled back and wearing blue glasses and a denim shirt.

Healing Through Accountability and Acceptance With Molly Johnston, LCSW

“I am always on the lookout for ways to support BIPOC, especially now. I believe it is my duty to utilize my privilege to uplift others.”
–Molly Johnston, LCSW

Event Date and Time
Monday, September 21, 3-4 PM PT

Text reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Community Grounding, reconnect and recharge on Mondays @10am PST with Rainbow Marifrog. www.BlackHealingOctober.org with image of Rainbow Marifrog.
Text on top reads: Reclaim UGLY presents Solidarity Healing September. Side 1, image of Rainbow Marifrog smiling in nature. Side 2, a rainbow with white script reads, Community Grounding, reconnect and recharge on Mondays @10am PST with Rainbow Marifrog. http://www.BlackHealingOctober.org

Community Grounding With Rainbow Marifrog #4

“I am so honored to be participating in this healing event. As a white, cis woman I walk this earth with a lot of privilege. I am joyful and inspired to use my privilege to support my BIPOC friends, family, neighbors, and community members and to completely eradicate racism. Thank you!”
–Rainbow Marifrog

Event Date and Time
Monday, September 28, 10-10:45 AM PT

White Parents with Black Children Drop In Space

A sacred and emergent convening for White parents with Black Children to process, love, build, and heal together in the name of collective liberation and the commitment to Protecting Black Lives.

Event Date and Time
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