Operationalizing Love with Dr. Durryle Brooks
Love within the U.S. context is often defined in overly individualistic and depoliticized ways. Why? What about love and its role in social transformation? This session will analyze the ways in which the everyday notion of love operates as a tool of oppression and perpetuates white supremacist ideology to shape our social realities, desirability, and diminish possibilities for social transformation. This session will offer us all an opportunity to interrogate what love is, how we have been socialized by it, and how it shapes our capacity to lead change and hold each other with loving accountability. In this workshop, led by Founder and CEO Durryle Brooks, we will explore a Critical Theory of Love framework to interrogate our own social justice practices and ensure that we are not perpetuating oppression, but instead helping ourselves and others to heal while resisting erasure and dehumanization.
Participants will leave with:
- An operational definition of love that is based in healing justice
- A framework for applying a Critical Theory of Love to our social justice work
- Principles and practices of love to help us all heal from the effects of systemic oppression
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1-4 p.m.
Payne Room in the Tang
Durryle Brooks, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary researcher, scholar-practitioner, and social justice educator from Baltimore, Maryland. He is the founder and CEO of Love and Justice Consulting LLC, an organizational and leadership development firm that provides leaders with diversity and social justice learning opportunities. He is a next generation faculty member for the , which provides a space for the professional and personal development of social justice educators to enhance and refine their skills. He also is the author of 鈥�,鈥� which articulates a vision and framework for re-conceptualizing love in ways that produce intersectional justice and healing.