SEASON 1: Fall 2019-Spring 2020
Session 1: Opening
introductions, community agreements, co-creating the group curriculum
Session 2: Here-ness
post-Soviet identity, whiteness, Jewishness, settler colonialism, radical diasporism
Session 3: Inheritance
intergenerational trauma, what we are taking with us & what we are leaving behind
Session 4: Healing
rooting and radiating, joy, multiki, oral history
Session 5: Futurity
drafting our collective garden, activist panel, zine
Session 6: Closing
Jewish “safety” & anti-Semitism, zine, gratitudes
SEASON 2: Spring 2020-Summer 2020
Session 0: COVID19 informal session
check-in & mutual aid
Session 1: Diasporic Co-Creation of Ritual and Magic
garlic, birches
Session 2: Developing a Power Analysis
settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, white supremacy, “assimilable immigrants” & where we fit in
Session 3: The Movement for Black Lives
policing, abolition, Deadly Exchange, post-Soviet Q&A sheet
Session 4: Occupied Palestine & Soviet Jews
Session 5: Attachment and Relationships
Session 6: Closing
Informal CHAI Sessions:
names
neurodiversity & mental health in FSUQJ context
making vareniyiki
SEASON 3: Winter 2021 - Spring 2021
Session 1: Opening
introductions, community agreements, the season ahead
Session 2: Kishki/Kishkes/Guts
scarcity, displacement & the microbiome; fermentation and herbs for resilience; colonial foodways
Session 3: Kosher Pork (Religion, Spirituality, Ritual and FSU Jews)
Session 4: Money & Reparations
Session 5: seks [*postponed]
Session 6: closing / future dreaming
Informal CHAI Sessions & Addtl Events:
internal group dynamics & repair
film screening + Q&A: Crystal Swan
shityo - stitch n bitch
film screening + Q&A: Shtetlers