The “N” Word

april, 2025

09apr5:00 pm8:00 pmThe "N" Word0.3 PPO5:00 pm - 8:00 pm CT Virtual Workshop - ZoomCategory:ASLIS

Time

(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm CT

Location

Virtual Workshop - Zoom

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Presented in

English with ASL Interpretation

CEUs

0.3 PPO

ASLIS is an Approved RID CMP Sponsor for Continuing Education Activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for a total of 0.3 CEUs at Some Content Knowledge Level.

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Event Details

ALL are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Participants will listen and learn from Black interpreters and Deaf consumers as they share their lived experiences with the N-word. We will have large and small group discussions gaining insight into the Power, Privilege and Oppression attached to the N-word. Interactive and engaging conversations about the use of the N-word while interpreting and how the word is layered with meaning.

Educational Objectives:

As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

Analyze their own experience and understandings of the “N-word” and how this has shaped their beliefs.
Where the N-word originated and how it has changed over the years.
Understand how the N-word is arguably the most powerful and strongest racist term in the English language.
Learn strategies on how interpreters can manage the N-word and how using the word impacts all those around them.
Gain insight into how the N-word generally affects Black people and many Black colleagues in the field.

Presenter Bio

Sabrina has been an interpreter since May 2019. She has been a change agent, champion for diversity, speaker and community organizer since 2006. In 2020, she recognized the need to develop a platform where a multicultural group of people could get together to talk. The goal was to have open and honest discussions about the issues surrounding race relations in America. Through her work as an interpreter Sabrina decided to share her knowledge and experience with interpreters as a way to bring awareness to the field.

Sabrina hosts and leads monthly Mindful Discussions which is a platform focused on building a community where people of all backgrounds engage in understanding the importance of their actions.

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