1. CRITICAL RACE FEMINIST PRAXIS: BUILDING A TABLE THAT FITS FOR WOMXN OF COLOUR
Presenters:
Lorraine D. Acker, Ph.D, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs at Bennett College
Natasha Croom, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Clemson University
Aja C. Holmes, Ph.D., Senior Associate Director for Residential Life, California State University- Sacramento

2. WHO WE ARE
*Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty, Administrators
Founders:
Lorraine D. Acker, Ph.D.
Glennda Bivens, Ph.D.
Natasha N. Croom, Ph. D.
Katrina Harden-Williams
Aja C. Holmes, Ph.D.
Joyce Lui, Ph.D.
Anicia Peters, Ph.D.
Angelica Renia, Ph.D.
Lissa Stapleton, Ph.D.
Campus Partners
Margaret Sloss Women’s Center
School of Education, Iowa State University
Multicultural Student Affairs
Introduction of Topic (15 mins)
Why the need for this space
History of the Womyn of Colour Network
CRT and CRF as the foundation for creating womxn of colour network

3. WHAT WE DID? FRAMEWORK (Critical) Feminist Epistemologies
Womanist, Black Feminist Thought, and other gendered/raced perspectives
Dialogue as central to knowledge construction
Critical Race Theory – Critical Race Feminism
Black White Binary
Lived Experience
Intersectionality

4. WHAT WE DID? GETTING TO THE TABLE
The Journey
Working from a place of pain…impacts everything that comes after
How one gets to the table MATTERS
Naming and Defining
“If I didn’t’ define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive” – Audre Lourde
Who we are, were, are becoming
What you not gon’ do…External and Internal (WOCN)
Tensions
Cultural, ethnic, and racial differences within group – (1) outsiders-within group, (2) all black everything

5. FEELS - LOOKS - SOUNDS APPROACHES TO PRAXIS
How are womxn of color engaged on your campus?
In the field of Student Affairs, what can critical race feminist praxis look like, feels like, and sound like on your campus?
What does praxis look like, feel like and sound like on your campus?
What does disrupting the black-white binary look like, feels like, and sounds like?
ACTIVITY PRAXIS (LOOKS LIKE, FEELS LIKE, SOUNDS LIKE)
Divide participants in 4 groups.
Have groups work together to respond to the questions below
Participants will be asked to write responses on large post-it paper
Each group will report on questions, noting similarities and differences.
Activity Questions:
How are womxn of color engaged on your campus?
In the field of student affairs in higher education, what can critical race feminist praxis look like, feels, like, sounds, like?
What does praxis look like, feels, like, sounds like on your campus?
What does disrupting the black-white binary look like, feels like, sounds, like?
Participant Experiences (10 min)
REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION ACTIVITY- Participants will reflect on what praxis is for them and discuss the kinds of praxis are they engaged in on their campuses.
Disrupting the black – white binary
If you’re not black…(you might be the one Latina or the one Asian-American) – how did we get here??
Being complicit in that stuff: From “why don’t they care about these issues as much as we do” to “what is it about a predominately black and female space that signals that other WOC aren’t welcome/invited?”
Attending to intersectionality
Race, Gender, AND … (oh, yeah)
Praxis: Acting towards equity, justice, and voice
What can critical race feminist praxis look like?
Praxis as a filter – iterative process of (re)construction, self-reflection (a crucial part of process), critique, action
Intentionality throughout process of moving toward social change/justice
In what ways do creating counterspaces reinforce the racial and gender hegemony and the status quo?
FEELS - LOOKS - SOUNDS

6. WHAT QUESTIONS CAN WE ANSWER?