Work Redux | RAGE

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Machine Shop | 300 2nd St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

November 19, 2019

Work Redux brings together hundreds of women and non-binary leaders spanning diverse backgrounds to reimagine the future of the workplace. Join Pollen’s Work Redux community for a discussion about channeling our collective rage toward action.

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Over the last 5 years, Work Redux has rallied thousands of women and non-binary folks spanning diverse backgrounds to reimagine the future of the workplace as they come into positions of leadership. It is now clear that our work together needs a moment of catharsis, where we fully acknowledge the anger, pain, and fear bubbling beneath each topic we’ve covered. This November, we’ll host an entire event centered on our collective rage.

R S V P

Together, we will excavate the anger we are too often forced to hide deep within us. Our rage is valid. Our rage is survival. Our rage is needed, now more than ever, in the fight against a terrifying normalization of inequity, racism, and misogyny. This will not be a place of silence and complacency, but a place to channel our individual fears, hopes, creativity…and burning rage into a collective story of action.

We will come together in our rage, and also hope.

First, we will welcome and sit in our rage, with stories of how anger sparks, and how it lingers in our bodies, memories, and actions. Then, four panelists with roots in politics, academia, art, and workplace dynamics will explore how large, systemic changes can be made by harnessing our fury.

Featured Speakers

Seena Hodges
The Woke Coach

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Zenzele Isoke
Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota

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Erin Maye Quade

Gender Justice

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Claire Wahmanholm
Poet and Educator

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Moderated by Meg Lionel Murphy of Pollen

Optional Suggested Reading

The topic of rage was inspired by three bestselling books on women’s anger. We are eager to learn how you’ve experienced rage over gender inequity, and how that meets racial and economic realities.

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly

Good and Mad: How Women’s Anger Is Reshaping America by Rebecca Traister

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney C. Cooper

About Work Redux

As part of Pollen’s mission to invest in human connection, Work Redux is an event series (and now also a network of leaders) that inspires questions, sparks discussion, and drives action to challenge cultural assumptions behind the current, dominant work culture. Together we will better understand how we can design and change the future of work.

While Work Redux was created by and for women and non-binary leaders, it will take all of us, including cisgender men, to realize the systemic changes that are necessary for gender equality. If you want to reimagine the future of the workplace with us, you are welcome to attend and listen.

Program

7:30 – 8:15 AM | Registration, Breakfast + Networking

8:15 – 8:30 AM | Welcome + Performance

8:30 – 11:00 AM | Readings, Panel + Small Group Discussions

Special Thanks

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Work Redux | RAGE is presented by the Bush Foundation, with support provided by Machine Shop and Fontlove Studio.

Additional Details

Ticket price includes breakfast and beverages. There is a public parking ramp at 101 SE 2nd Ave, a block and half from the venue, as well as metered parking on surrounding streets. Bicycle racks are also available. Machine Shop is accessible via public transit. Check metrotransit.org for routes and schedules.

FEATURED SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS

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Seena Hodges

The Woke Coach™

Featured Contributor

Seena Hodges

The Woke Coach™

Seena Hodges is a connector with a passion for equity, intersectional feminism, and access to brave spaces for all. She is the Founder + CEO of The Woke Coach ™ and partners with clients to facilitate conversations and complete projects that live at the intersection of racial equity, inclusion, education, and empowerment.

Seena is a trained equity, diversity and inclusion facilitator and a certified administrator of Clifton Strengths (StrengthsFinder) and the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI)—the premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence. She is a graduate of the Theatre Management and Producing MFA Program at Columbia University where she was a Dean’s Fellow. Seena is passionate about art in all of its forms and serves on the Board of Trustees at the Walker Art Center.
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Zenzele Isoke

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Featured Contributor

Zenzele Isoke

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Zenzele Isoke is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance (Palgrave-MacMillan Press), a book-length study of black women’s political homemaking in Newark, New Jersey. She has been practicing meditation in the Insight Tradition since 2005 and has been an active member of Common Ground Meditation Center community since 2014. Zenzele incorporates mindfulness techniques in university classroom settings, specifically in the advanced undergraduate course Pleasure, Intimacy, Violence that she co-created with the Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education and the University of Minnesota Women’s Center. Zenzele teaches a range of courses rooted in black feminist theory and practice across the fields of political science, geography, and Black diaspora studies.
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Erin Maye Quade

Gender Justice

Featured Contributor

Erin Maye Quade

Gender Justice

Erin Maye Quade is an established leader and outspoken advocate for women, family, and LGBTQ rights. She represented District 57A in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, and is currently the Advocacy Director for Gender Justice, a nonprofit legal and policy advocacy organization devoted addressing gender inequities through the law. When she ran for Lieutenant Governor in 2018, Erin also became the first LGBTQ person to be endorsed on the ticket of a major Minnesota political party. During Rep. Maye Quade’s time as a legislator, she was a fierce advocate for working families, expanding access to affordable child care, ending childhood hunger, eliminating gun violence, and investing in treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues, addressing climate change and fully funding our public schools. Her current work as the Advocacy Director for Gender Justice involves advancing gender justice through public education, legislative outreach, strategic partnerships and coalition-building.
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Claire Wahmanholm

Poet and Educator

Featured Contributor

Claire Wahmanholm

Poet and Educator

Claire Wahmanholm is a teacher and poet whose work engages with parenthood, ecopoetics, grief, violence, and the Anthropocene. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Wilder, won the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, the 2019 Society of Midland Authors Literary Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award. Her second collection, Redmouth, is forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions later this month. Her poems have appeared widely, including in The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Review, New Poetry from the Midwest 2017, Poetry Daily, The Cincinnati Review, and on Tracy K. Smith’s podcast The Slowdown.

Claire has taught creative writing workshops at The Johns Hopkins University, The University of Utah, and the Loft Literary Center, and currently teaches English at St. Paul Academy and Summit School, where she also co-advises the Poetry Out Loud program. She is a member of EAR (Equity/Accountability/Reparations), a group of white-bodied Minnesota writers committed to resourcing and supporting writers of color and indigenous writers in the Twin Cities community.
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Meg Lionel Murphy

Moderator

Featured Contributor

Meg Lionel Murphy

Moderator

Meg Lionel Murphy is an artist, designer, and editor. When not painting, she divides her time between working as the Art + Story Director of Pollen and volunteering as Editor-in-Chief of Paper Darts Magazine.