Loretta Ross on “Calling In, Calling Out, and Calling Up”
LORETTA ROSS ON “CALLING IN, CALLING OUT, AND CALLING UP”
Wednesday, March 1 | 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. ET
Dr. Hellena Moon, Respondent
Dr. Pamela Cooper-White, Moderator
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(How) is it ever possible to dialogue across the painful divisions of racism and gender violence in America today? MacArthur (“genius grant”) Fellow and longtime activist Loretta Ross will describe when and how “calling in” or “calling out” is an appropriate tool to confront privilege and oppressive speech (unintended and intended), and when “calling up” is the right activist response to oppressive systems and institutions. Dr. Hellena Moon will respond from a theological and postcolonialist perspective, followed by a time for discussion.
Loretta J. Ross
Loretta J. Ross is a Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender where she teaches courses on white supremacy, human rights, and Calling In the Call Out culture. Loretta also is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellow, Class of 2022, for her work as an advocate of Reproductive Justice and Human Rights.
Loretta was the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (2005-2012) and co-created the theory of Reproductive Justice. Loretta was National Co-Director of April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time. She founded the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women (NOW), and was the national program director of the National Black Women’s Health Project. One of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center, Loretta was the third Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center. Loretta has co-written three books on reproductive justice: Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (2004); Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (2017); and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique (2017). Her newest book, Calling In the Calling Out Culture is forthcoming later in 2023.
Hellena Moon
Hellena Moon(she/her) is a part-time assistant professor at Kennesaw State University in the Interdisciplinary Studies department. She has degrees from Boston College, a Master of Arts in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD from Emory University. She was a hospital chaplain at the University of Chicago Hospital. She is the author of the monograph Liberalism and Colonial Violence: Charting a New Genealogy of Spiritual Care. She also co-edited 2 books with Dr. Bishop Emmanuel Y. Lartey: Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care: Challenges of Care in a Neoliberal Age; and Postcolonial Practices of Care: A Project of Togetherness during COVID-19 and Racial Violence. She also edited an anthology for high school students: Power of Our Stories Won’t Stop: Intergenerational Truth-Telling as Civic Democratic Practice. Foreword: Andrea Young (Executive Director, ACLU of Georgia).
Pamela Cooper-White
The Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, PhD is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion at Union, and author of 10 books including most recently The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn in and How to Talk across the Divide.