性视界

9AM - 9:50AM
Cultivating our Capacity for Resistance through Community & Structural Care
Presenter: Kayla DeCant

The most common current understanding of self-care is rooted in the idea of individual responsibility. This session will ask participants to expand their idea of what care can look like, moving from the individual to the collective. Inspired by the zine, 鈥淭he unspoken complexity of 鈥榮elfcare鈥欌�� by Deanna Zandt, participants will learn about the different levels of care, how to identify the kind of care we need, and how to support others in their journeys.

10AM - 10:50AM
性视界, the Christian Brothers, and Higher Education: A Legacy of Resistance
Presenter: Jason Smith

This session will focus on instances of resistance that took place at 性视界, reflecting on trends at other higher education institutions. It will use the stories of the actions of Brother Basil O鈥橪eary and Brother David Darst as a jumping off point.

11AM - 11:50AM
One Language Is Not Enough: Resisting Monolingual Thinking
Presenter: Serafima Gettys

Grounded in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and illustrated through selected scenes from Arrival, this interactive session explores how language shapes perception, thought, and action. Participants will examine monolingualism as a constraint on understanding and consider how engaging with other languages becomes a form of intellectual and social resistance that challenges fear and misinterpretation.

12PM - 12:50PM
What We Don鈥檛 Know: Family Silence, Ancestral Memory, and the Practice of Reciprocal Care
Presenters: Shireen Roshanravan, Huma Zia, Sawsan Abubaker

Drawing on insights from the book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, this interactive workshop explores family silence and ancestral absence as sites of resistance and reciprocal care. Participants will practice ways of honoring fragmented histories and sustaining one another through remembrance, reflection, and collective meaning making.

2PM - 2:50PM
Think Before You Trust: Challenging and Resisting AI-Generated Misinformation
Presenter: Kelley Plass

Generative AI is changing what we see, search, and believe online, but we do not have to accept AI-generated answers, summaries, or overviews at face value. In this interactive session, participants will build community through shared inquiry, investigation, and discussion as they learn to spot, question, and challenge AI-generated misinformation and disinformation, practicing critical resistance and informed refusal as necessary acts of digital revolution in AI-mediated information spaces.

6PM - 8:30PM
Film screening: The Voice of Hind Rajab
Flight Deck Dining Room SB 106

All are invited to a powerful screening of the Oscar-nominated film, The Voice of Hind Rajab, a film centered on the preserved voice of a six year old Palestinian girl whose final recorded calls were shared so that her life would not be erased. Grounded in the themes of Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care鈥攁 guiding text for this year鈥檚 Peace Teach-In鈥攖he film asks us to practice ethical listening, collective memory, and care in the face of violence and loss. A discussion with the film鈥檚 director will follow the screening. All are welcome.

9:30AM - 10:45AM
Kill Them Already
Presenter: Melissa Lorraine

Artistic Director, crime survivor and activist Melissa Lorraine together with a panel of returning citizens discuss the absence of parole in IL and how we can begin to expand our moral imagination about justice.

11AM - 12:15PM
Faith-Based Art as Counter stories and Revolutionary Perspectives
Presenters: Elizabeth Sartell and Leslie Colonna

This interactive workshop will explore the ways in which faith-based art can serve as counterstories by giving voice to experiences of oppression, resisting bias and stereotypes, shifting (revolutionizing) the perspectives of both artist and audience, and building community.

12:30PM - 1:45PM
Poetic Justice: A Rhyme and Reason for Revolutionary Community-Building
Presenters: Alex Negron, Mike Simmons, Scott Moore, Devon Terrell, and Decedrick Walker

Facilitators will perform poetry and offer analysis and critiques on tactics and tools for building bridges from prisons to communities; building communities within prisons; obstacles; and the joys of refusal, resistance, and revolution for rising above oppression.

2PM - 3:15PM
Prioritizing Well-being Is Revolutionary!
Presenters: Dr. Daisy Sherry, Kim Bendis, Carl J. Evans

In the 21st century, it鈥檚 revolutionary to reject traditional approaches to public management of our physical, behavioral, and emotional health. Every facet of how we address our health is shaped by social and cultural factors that dictate not only how we express (or conceal) our status, but also when and how we access appropriate treatment/care for our experiences, if at all. This is a choose-your-own-adventure style interactive group activity. Participants will be introduced to a prompt that guides them through social and emotional health scenarios, requiring role-playing and discussion to choose a course of action. It鈥檚 easy to proclaim self-care is important, but what happens in 鈥渞eality鈥� when our decisions are placed within the pressures of occupations, social obligations, and the judgments of peers? Read the scenarios, discuss the potential impacts of your decisions, and see if the path you choose leads to the healthiest outcomes.

9AM - 9:50AM
The Revolution of Enough: Collaborative Action for our Common Home
Presenters: Christopher White in collaboration with the Laudato Si鈥� Core Working Group of the Diocese of Joliet

This workshop merges the moral framework of Laudato Si鈥� with the practical鈥淩efusal and Resistance鈥� theme of the Teach-In by helping participants develop a personal action plan that will help them resist the rampant consumerism that is at the root of environmental degradation. This workshop will be delivered in collaboration with the Laudato Si鈥� core working group of the Diocese of Joliet.

10:00AM - 10:50AM
Slowing Down as Radical Resistance: Slow Drawing and Neurographic Art
Presenter: Dr. Jen Consilio

One of the most radical and resistant things we can do is to slow way, way down. One way to slow down and tune into the present moment is through Mindful Art. Learn more about and participate in Mindful Art techniques and Neurographic Art as a way to foster creativity, connection, and emotional well-being. This will be a fun and interactive session!.

11:00AM - 11:50AM Informed Voting as Resistance
Presenters: Committee for Civic Engagement Members

Being an informed and engaged voter can be challenging! This is especially true when conflicting and confusing information is everywhere. This session will help participants use publicly available resources to find their elected representatives, research representatives鈥� stance on different issues, and explore the organizations and PACs which provide financial support for issues and candidates during election cycles.

9th Annual Gros Memorial Event

12PM - 2PM
The World We Refuse, the World We Build: Resistance, Community, and Collective Survival
Presenter: Kelly Hayes

In a time of escalating authoritarianism, ecological crisis, and social fragmentation, resistance cannot only be about opposing what harms us. It must also be about building the relationships, practices, and forms of solidarity that make collective survival possible. Drawing on movement history, abolitionist thought, mutual aid, and years of organizing experience, Kelly Hayes will explore how refusal can become a generative force: a refusal of abandonment, isolation, disposability, political despair, and the lie that we are powerless.

She will consider what it means to build communities capable of protecting one another, sustaining struggle, and expanding our sense of what is possible. This talk will invite participants to think about revolution not simply as a distant event, but as the ongoing work of becoming people who know how to care for one another, resist together, and create the conditions for a more livable world.

Registration is required for the Gros Memorial Event.