Nurturing Community Through Dialogue

Call in Your People uses food, art, text, and space to creatively convene people together for community dialogue. We mobilize equity through the exercise of dialogue: before all people can share in the same conversation, we first need to have conversations with people that look like us or have similar lived experiences as us - we need you to call in your people.

A few examples of what this can look like are:

• Men calling in other men to unpack sexism before sharing a dialogue on gender based violence with women, trans, and non-binary folks.

• White people calling in other white people to learn about white supremacy culture before having a dialogue about racism with black and brown people.

• Able-bodied people calling in other able-bodied people to unlearn ableist language before having a dialogue about disability with disabled people.

No one group is a monolith. Not all LGBTQ+ folks have the same lived experiences; straight people aren’t all the same either. White people are not singular, and people of color are more than one box. Our identities and lived experiences are not the only pieces of who we are. Simultaneously, our identities and lived experiences have presented us with conditions that are not uniquely our own. We gather for dialogue at this intersection, committed to exploring the individual and the environment they exist within.

Together, we will gather; we will probably cook, bake, eat, and move too! We will lean into discomfort and vulnerability, knowing that the wellbeing of our community is tied up in our participation.