Description:

Beauty and success have often been defined through white supremacist terms, lands, and systems. This has made it disproportionately challenging or fully impossible for people of color to keep up under those constraints. The Halo Effect (the cognitive bias suggesting that what is beautiful is good; also referred to as the physical attractiveness stereotype) has never worked for people of color. But beauty is about geopolitics, and there is a history of defining beauty -- and therefore attractiveness, familiarity, and trustworthiness -- that's centered on whiteness. White supremacy solidified this by recruiting some of us to join them by calling Asian Americans a model minority. In this workshop, we will examine the oppression and ramifications of white-centered beauty and success through a social-emotional lens. Attendees will be able to reflect on their own body image and the society that influences it.

This workshop is part of a week of events with educator-in-residence, Justine Ang Fonte.