Workshops and small group discussions offered opportunities for participants to collaboratively deconstruct and critically investigate the concept of allyship, and to reflect on how the themes of the conference resonate with their personal and professional context.
The goal of this virtual conference was to situate these conversations in a larger reflection about social work’s role in building true social justice, as reflected in this poem: decolonialfutures.net/portfolio/wanna-be-an-ally
The keynote address critiques the concept of allyship and how its loose definitions can lead to performativity when it comes to being an ally.
