Register for the Othering & Belonging Conference 2021
Risk and the Courage to Bridge

What would you be willing to risk to bridge across the deep rifts that characterize our world in order to join forces for good? Especially now, with our collective future at stake, would you risk an uncomfortable conversation, pushback from your own “side,” or the possibility of having to share limited resources? More importantly, what could you gain by moving from a politics of isolation to one of belonging? What could we all gain if we had the courage to bridge? And what could we lose if we don't?

Together, we are Othering & Belonging

At our first three Othering & Belonging conferences, thousands of advocates, scholars, artists, and cultural workers gathered to explore belonging at the interpersonal, inter-group, and systemic levels, as well as to understand the necessity of bridging to achieve true belonging. But in a time of rapidly growing polarization, the accelerating climate crisis, and quickly-disintegrating distrust towards authority and each other, the need to bridge in order to expand our political might and achieve real solutions has only become more urgent. At O&B 2021, we will be centering the notion of risk. Can those of us working towards justice take real risks to expand who belongs in our work—and in our circle of human concern more widely?