Gassing with the Galdem Autumn 2020

GASSING WITH THE GALDEM 

MON 21ST SEPT: BACK TO SCHOOL

Facilitated by Sheri

Gassing with the Galdem is a weekly social space for women of colour & people of marginalised genders to speak freely without having to self moderate for a white presence. Co-presented between @girlgangmcr @girlgangsheffield and @girlgangleeds This is a self led discussion space that can be as radical, relaxed, fun or fierce and it wants or needs to be.

Further details about this weeks session here:

Tomorrow evening's Gassing with the Galdem will be tackling education! Covering issues including...

•Lack of diversity and representation in the curriculum
•No Black History Month or robust coverage of the civil rights movement, the slave trade, or colonialism
•Section 28 routinely not being followed
•Support, or lack thereof for POC in entering HE
•Lack of support finding diverse institutions or honesty around lack of diversity at certain institutions
•POC Pushed towards HE over vocational career paths
•Racism in hair and grooming policies

We’d love to have your voice to help shape the space, so if that’s how you identify please come along! Free to attend with optional donations to charity and/or to pay our facilitators. Tell ya friends! Xxx

This event is free to attend with the option to donate to support Girl Gang overheads and/or raise money for racial justice charities each week. 

This month's charity is The Black LGBTQIA+ Therapy Fund, a UK based GoFundMe Page committed to funding 1 to 1 therapy sessions for black LGBTQIA+ people. Currently able to provide therapy for a year and working to register as a charity to continue this on a more permanent basis.

https://uk.gofundme.com/f/black-lgbtqia-therapy-fund

This space is catered towards women and people of marginalised genders. 

We would love to have you in our circle and help shape this space together xx

UPCOMING SESSIONS INCLUDE....

MON 5TH OCT: Protect Our Black Women facilitated by Simone Yasmin

MON 19TH OCT: Self Care Sundays facilitated by Anna Jobarteh

We love to know who's in our gang! When people book tickets with us we ask some identity related questions  so we can see who is attending our events.  Knowing about all our differences and similarities helps us feel more informed when striving to create events and content which is more relevant to our audience. Collecting data serves a few functions for us: 

1: We can keep an eye on who's in the room to brief facilitators if anyone has additional requirements or to ensure the session they are planning is relevant.

2: So we can be aware of underrepresentation and try to counter balance this where possible, (resources dependent as we are volunteer led.)

3: We can potentially use the data for future funding bids, which are some times catered to specific area's and/or audiences

This data is only stored on Tickettailor which is password protected and only used by one of our team. If you do not feel comfortable sharing this information with us, please simply write N/A in the boxes.