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Discussing ways to forge deeper relations across differences to create more inclusive environments on campus. 

FLC Facilitator

Dr. Marjorie Shavers

Department Head, CLSE
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FLC Facilitator

Dr. Nancy Gordon

FCTL Director
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Shared Sisterhood: Taking Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity

While the focus of  this FLC is the building of a shared sisterhood on campus to address racial and gender equity and improve the overall experience of women on campus., the group is for both men and women who will explore their own identities and discuss ways to forge deeper relations across differences and create more inclusive environments on campus.

We will read the book:  Shared Sisterhood: How to take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work (Opie & Livingston, 2022) which maintains that gender equity is not possible without racial equity.  The  book addresses biases often existing in organizations.  In the book, Opie & Livingston (2022) explain how to use vulnerability, trust, empathy, and risk-taking to build Shared Sisterhood. 

The FLC  will apply the ideas to the university and identify ways faculty can move from individual solutions toward collective action.

FLC Topics

  • Dismantling Inequalities & Inequities
  • Bridging Differences
  • Collective Action

FLC Goals/Outcomes

  • Examine assumptions around racioethnicity, gender, and power.
  • Develop relationships to bridge the divide between women of all backgrounds.
  • Explore strategies for advancing all women across the organization and beyond
  • Identify one change or “small step” to make that will help build Shared Sisterhood.
  • Develop at least one project or initiative as a group aimed at moving from individual solutions toward collective action.