"We Can't Go On Like This:" Ruminations, Lessons, and Insights from the Seeing Wellness Project

In this talk, Dr. Laura Krystal Porterfield will present lessons and insights from her ongoing collaborative research project Seeing Wellness: Exploring the Transformative Self-Care and Wellness Practices of BIPOC Diversity and Justice Workers. 

The Seeing Wellness research project is a participatory visual ethnography that explores the self-care, wellness, and healing practices of self-identified transgender, women, and gender non-conforming Black, Indigenous and other People of Color (BIPOC) who are diversity and justice leaders in the global north and south. The guiding research question of this study asks, “What does transformational self-care look like for transgender, women, and gender non-conforming BIPOC within the context of diversity and social justice leadership?”

In the spirit of Harambee and biomimicry, this event is designed to engage attendees in conversation regarding their own care and wellness practices, and to foster an open dialogue where folx can connect, improvise, and riff off one another toward greater understanding and collaboration.

This event is all virtual and open to the public. Please register here: https://go.rutgers.edu/jk6e2t6b.

This event is free and open to the public, made possible through the Hosford Legacy Award in recognition of Dean David Hosford by Dr. Edward G. Kirby, the Department of Urban Education, and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) Black Bodies, Black Health project.