Taking Liberation Online with Sevine Clarey & RJ Williams | Butterfly Talks | REC 2.0
Channel: Ecoversities
Date: 2022-03-04

RJ Williams 
RJ is a black cisgendered father and educator. He found the pursuit of liberation and freedom through learning exciting after teaching high school math and training school teachers in Miami, Florida. He loves sports, music, pondering big questions, and spending time with his family--wife Kelli and twins Kai and Jordan.

Sevine Clarey
Sevine is a white bodied, mad and queer somatic healer, body-inquirer and are a transformative justice educator at Spring Up. They believe that the power of justice and liberation is rooted in our bodies and center embodiment, consent and queer dreaming as practices of accountability and transformation. Sev loves storytelling, dancing in the wind, consensual tickling, and holding space for questions and wonderings that last into the night.
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This session was recorded at the Re-Imagining Education Conference 2.0, hosted by the Ecoversities Alliance and partnering organizations and communities from around the world. It is an annual online conference to radically re-imagine the future of higher education.

https://re-imagining.education
https://ecoversities.org
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Why Butterfly Talks? 
Butterflies are not only extremely elegant and beautiful, they also serve important roles in the ecosystems that they are a part of: perhaps most significantly pollinating important food crops and flowers. Over the past four decades butterfly populations have been decreasing, with many species (including the Monarch) inching closer to extinction. As with the butterfly, many other of our sacred species, traditions, languages, cultures etc. are going extinct. In these talks we will hear from individuals and groups that are working to re-enliven, re-connect and re-engage through acts of education. Although these projects will be shared individually they are part of a larger distributed global movement. Each of these actions are significant with impacts and effects far beyond. These talks are organized to connect, share, inspire and spread these Butterflies' effects wider for the sake of re-vitalizing our human and non-human ecosystems.