Since the first depiction of Black love on screen in 1898 to today, we have seen an evolution of how Black love is portrayed. During this workshop we will explore how Black love in the media has changed and counters racial tropes, discuss the ways media impacts our view of relationships, and learn ways to decode messages in the media.

Facilitator, Tonjie Reese is a Detroit native, creative, preventionist, and founder of eleven24, a program dedicated to reimagining prevention through a lens of liberation and community. In her many years of youth-serving and gender-based violence work, she has held roles as a prevention program director, national community initiatives coordinator, and senior program officer. Tonjie holds a BS in Behavioral Science and a MA in Education, Leadership, and Change. Driven by the belief that everyone has a role in gender based violence prevention, her motto is “It’s up to us to define what our role will be!”

eleven24 aims to enhance the capacity of caring adults – both professional and personal - by providing training and consultation through a intersectionality and social liberation lens in order to reduce the prevalence of relationship abuse and sexual violence among young people.

Register here: https://nku.zoom.us/.../tJUtd-CsqD4iEtD5jXZ7wJH4HHDvMHpZQ3qX