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Walking Alone and Together Origin Story

On April 1st, 2020, in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the three of us - Shimira Williams, Michelle King, and Marijke Hecht - set out to have a conversation on Zoom together. We three are women educators, playmakers, learning instigators, and earth troublemakers. As we were learning what it meant to be sheltered in place, we serendipitously birthed #WalkingAloneandTogether (WAAT). Through the discipline of showing up week after week, we created refugia, an area in which a population of organisms can survive through a period of unfavorable conditions. This virtual refugia was our emergent community space, centering our complex identities of race, gender, class, spirituality and geographies. As we look back, more than a year later, we can see that it is also a place of refuge and futurity inspired by Afrofuturism, SolarPunk and Indigeneity. Now, we want to offer not only a summary of what we have learned together - we also want to share the process that we developed by offering our Learning Refugia Workshops.  ​
An Invitation to Join Us
Interested in building refugia with #WalkingAloneandTogether?

Our mixed flock presented at two conferences during the Summer of 2021. Click on the Learn More buttons to join the conversation.

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Connected Learning Summit

ASLE Biennial  Conference

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Walking Alone and Together Field Guide


​Vocabulary to Grapple With:

 refugia
loitering
tiny experiment
beloved community
decay
​justice

ki/kin
scalar
​love


Ross Gay on Loitering:

The Paris Review - Loitering Is Delightful - The Paris Review (article)
Ross Gay — Tending Joy and Practicing Delight | The On Being Project - The On Being Project (audio)

Evolving Resources List 

During our weekly calls we would share information like articles, essays, story-shorts, videos, etc.  Recently, we started to compile these resources in a spreadsheet. Click on the Resources button to view. 
RESOURCES

An invitation to #WalkAloneandTogether with us.

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Walking Alone and Together Collaborative Playlist

We encourage you to add a song(s) via Spotify. ​
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Thank you for joining our mixed flock!

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​​We hope to continue walking alone and together with you via Twitter using the hashtags:
#WalkingAloneAndTogether #CLS2021 or 
#WalkingAloneAndTogether & #ASLE21
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