About this Event
Whiteness & Privilege: Critical Reflection on Race
Knitted Knowledge invites you to a reflective, community-centered circle where knitting becomes a grounding practice for engaging with complex social questions. In this session, we turn our attention to Whiteness & Privilege, exploring how racial identity, power, and socialization shape our everyday lives. Together, we will examine the often-unseen structures that uphold racial hierarchies, and consider how awareness can open pathways toward accountability, solidarity, and change.
As we knit side by side, we create a slower, more embodied rhythm for conversation, one that makes space for honesty, discomfort, curiosity, and care. This circle welcomes participants of all backgrounds who are ready to think critically, listen deeply, and contribute to a shared fabric of understanding. No knitting experience is required; the emphasis is on presence, reflection, and collective learning.
Join us as we unravel inherited patterns, trace the threads of privilege, and imagine how new patterns of relationship and responsibility might be woven.
Knitted Knowledge
Knitted Knowledge is a series of community discussion circles where yarn and ideas intertwine. Participants gather with knitting needles in hand to explore pressing academic and social themes (from decolonization to environmental justice) while creating fabric together. Each knit becomes a metaphor for collective reflection, each row a reminder of how knowledge is built in community. Whether you are a seasoned knitter or simply curious, this circle invites you to slow down, craft, and converse in a space where creativity and critical thought are woven together.
Facilitator
Dr. Yecid Ortega has been committed to critical, creative, anti-racist, and decolonial worldviews in research and education for over two decades. Dr. Ortega explores the pluriversality of social, cultural, and linguistic experiences of the most marginalized communities in society (Immigrants, Refugees, 2S/LGBTQIA+, Neurodivergent, Older Adults, etc.) in formal and nonformal contexts and grounded by alternative critical, creative, arts-based, and community-oriented approaches. He is the founder of Liminal Research Services and co-founder of Artem Research Collective.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada
CAD 11.93 to CAD 17.26
