Turn Up for Freedom: A Book Discussion for Young Adults
Join us for an empowering book discussion with local Philly author E. Morales-Williams, PhD, as we dive into Turn Up For Freedom: Notes for All the Tough Girls* Awakening to Their Collective Power. Based on the work with the TUFF (Turning Up for Freedom) Girls Collective in North Philadelphia, this guidebook on leadership, healing, and empowerment offers strategies for young girls and gender-expansive youth of color to resist and heal. Facilitated by TUFF Girl alum Haneefa Mahoney Jackson, the discussion will focus on how youth can build personal, emotional, and collective freedom. Presented by Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center.
Perfect for young adults ages 14-26, but all are welcome! Be among the first 15 participants to receive a free copy of the book! RSVP here: TurnUpForFreedom.eventbrite.com
Discover stories on leadership, healing, and community empowerment, and learn how to unite, heal, and protect your community. See you there!
From Common Notions Press:
"A powerful guidebook for healing and resistance for young girls and gender-expansive youth of color on how to unite, heal, protect, and lead their communities.
Turn Up For Freedom helps youth leaders hone their skills to build personal, emotional, and collective freedom. It centers youth leadership through principled positions, such as being a healer, a protector, a scholar-activist, a community organizer, and being radically joyful, in order to build personal emotional and collective freedom. Through memoir, storytelling, and political education, E Morales-Williams grounds these principles in the material experiences of working-class youth and reflects on the possibilities and challenges in practicing them as a collective in under-resourced communities.
These were the principles of leadership and lessons learned from a Black and Brown girls and gender expansive youth-collective called TUFF Girls (Turning Up for Freedom), based in North Philadelphia. Morales-Williams carefully guides young readers through the challenging issues that confront their lives, helping to identify the traumatic impact that structural violence has on Black and Brown communities, restoring traditions of healing and collective care, and recentering leadership in community as an abolitionist and decolonizing practice. Turn Up For Freedom calls on young people to unite, heal, protect, and lead."
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201 South 40th Street (40th & Walnut Streets)
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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