Words Matter Events: November 21, 2024 • January 16, 2025 • March 27-29, 2025
“Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites…the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community.” —Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957
Companions in the Work,
Every year at Loyola, we host a DEIB series called Words Matter, which revolves around a theme. Created by the Loyola Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) in collaboration with The Marlborough School and Immaculate Heart High School, Words Matter is intended to provide a dedicated space, designed to listen to one another’s experiences and conversations around the power of words on race and gender. We often create activities, conversations, and moments of introspection so that students can build upon that new-found knowledge when they return to their respective schools. In this way, Words Matter pushes students to lead from within first, then move toward working for justice beyond the classroom, the school, or even the events we host.
Continuing from last year, Creating & Building the Beloved Community will be the theme of this year’s Words Matter. This year, we want to see this manifest through praxis, that is…hands-on work with the community. Our November session will attempt to inspire while training students to lead. The January and March sessions will both put the students in front of younger students, as they lead their own restorative practice workshop.
