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In-Store: Rethinking Reparations with Makini Chisolm-Straker

Published: February 14, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa

Event guidelines:

• All attendees are encouraged to wear face masks at all times.
• RSVP is highly encouraged but not required.
• Additional copies of the featured books will be available for purchase in-store.
• As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.

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This year, we encourage our community to learn together, support each other, and take actionable steps promoting racial equity, well-being, and repair.

Join us for Makini Chisolm-Staker’s workshop, “Rethinking Reparations: Envisioning Holistic Repair,” a threefold-purposed workshop:

• to historically ground reparations workers/freedom warriors in the need for policy-based reparations;
• to challenge the possibility of meaningful policy-based repair in a nation built on stolen land; and,
• to imagine methods of repair and well-being generation outside of the settler-colonial, capitalist construct.

The workshop challenges the reparations strategy and strengthens participants’ conceptualization of well-being and relationship repair.

The books featured in Makini’s discussion will be available for purchase in-store.

Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH is a policy-based reparations specialist, with a background in public health and domestic policy. A former White House Fellow and visiting professor of history at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Dr. Chisolm-Straker’s work focuses on reparations to Black and Indigenous people in what is now the United States. By entering the populations that are the foundation of the nation’s wealth, Dr. Chisolm-Straker proposes structural changes to value and bring us toward communal abundance.

Time: 8:30 pm EST

Free!

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