The calendar shows events we are part of and events we are sponsoring. Do you have an event we should know about? Send us a message.
All events for the 2020 Earth Festival will be held ONLINE. Details will be posted as soon as they are available.
Join The Resilient Activist and its partner, Climate Council of Greater Kansas City, at the Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch from April 18th through April 26th for multiple 2020 Earth Festival Events to celebrate Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary Celebration!
More info found here on Climate Council’s Website.
Visionary Activist Meredith McAllister
Sat. Nov 21, 2020 10 am – noon CST on Zoom
What is a Visionary Activist?
Wonder if you might be one?
Join us to hear Meredith’s journey to becoming a Visionary Activist and get a sense of your own grand vision!
“The possibility of what could be is such a driving factor for how I live. The path and journey of how we get there – the hard work – is what keeps me in it. When I get stuck, overwhelmed, or simply lose inspiration, I have to get outside and spend time in nature. It’s truly what inspires me and brings me the balance I need.”
Meredith McAllister is the co-founder and owner of Compost Collective KC, a curbside food waste collection company. Over the last three years, she has grown Compost Collective KC from a neighborhood venture to a metro-wide service, with continued plans to expand. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.A. in Political Science in 2010. In her ‘spare time’, Meredith raises a spirited toddler boy, serves on the boards of The Resilient Activist and The Brookside Farmers Market, and loves all things related to the outdoors, food, and wellness.
For our February JEDI Book Club, we will be reading White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao on Mighty Networks.
Below is a summary from Goodreads.
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy.
It’s no secret that white women are conditioned to be nice, but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture?
As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women’s tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection, even at the expense of anti-racism work.
In this book, Jackson and Rao pose these urgent questions: how has being nice helped Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color? How has being nice helped you in your quest to end sexism? Has being nice earned you economic parity with white men? Beginning with freeing white women from this oppressive need to be nice, they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behavior–from tone-policing to weaponizing tears–that uphold white supremacy society, and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer, more equitable life.
White Women is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacy. Your white supremacy. If you are in fact doing real anti-racism work, you will find few reasons to be nice, as other white people want to limit your membership in the club. If you are not ticking white people off on a regular basis, you are not doing it right.
Please feel welcome to attend, even if you missed earlier book club meetings. This is an open group, and we understand that our lives are busy and not everyone will be able to attend each month!
The JEDI Book Club is facilitated by Resilient Activists Brenda Bennett-Pike and Anne Melia. We hope you will join us!
For our April JEDI Book Club, we will be reading, You’ll Never Believe What Happened To Lacey, Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar. Here is a link to the Goodreads Summary.
Please note that for April, we will be meeting on April 11th, the 2nd Tuesday of the month, rather than the 3rd Tuesday!
The book is written by writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar. They share stories of racism that Lacey faces everyday living in Omaha, Nebraska. While the racism faced by Lacey isn’t really very funny, the book is infused with humor, and some of the stories would be unbelievable if they weren’t true. I really enjoyed the book. It was a fairly quick read, and a nice departure from what we have been reading.
(Photo Credit: Goodreads)
Please feel welcome to attend, even if you missed earlier book club meetings. This is an open group, and we understand that our lives are busy and not everyone will be able to attend each month!
The JEDI Book Club is facilitated by Resilient Activists Brenda Bennett-Pike and Anne Melia. We hope you will join us!
Arrow Rock Birds, Bees, and Blooms
The annual Village of Arrow Rock Garden Market and Vintage Bazaar and the Birds + Bees Festival have combined into one great event — now called the BIRDS, BEES & BLOOMS FESTIVAL!
The festival will highlight Missouri’s native pollinators, plants, birds and other wildlife. And… it’s family oriented. Offering something for all ages — including activities, vendors, hands-on educational demonstrations, Missouri-made food products & crafts, food and products representing Missouri family agriculture!
The Resilient Activist will be participating – come see us there!
This event is sponsored by the Missouri River Bird Observatory.
For our May book club, we will be reading, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem. This book is not an easy read, but it deeply impacted me in the way that it talks about how the trauma of slavery and racism impacts white, black, and police bodies.
Goodreads says, “In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.”
Here is the link to the full description by Goodreads
.
Please feel welcome to attend, even if you missed earlier book club meetings. This is an open group, and we understand that our lives are busy and not everyone will be able to attend each month!
The JEDI Book Club is facilitated by Resilient Activists Brenda Bennett-Pike and Anne Melia. We hope you will join us!
(Photo Credit: Goodreads)