And all the other endless ways in which we rob ourselves of ourselves and each other.
I think this is why it's critical to educate ourselves on issues that don't personally affect us.
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ollective work and responsibility -the decision to build and maintain ourselves and our communities together and to recognize and solve our problems together.
This is important, to establish a structure within a community can help move towards equity.
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Your silence will not protect you.
It's okay to call out and call in people
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with a hard headthat makes the men around her seem frail.
This woman is going against the stereotype that the Agent group wants
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and offer you half of what she knows,which is plenty.
She is wise!
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The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken
I hope we get to study more of Audre Lorde's work. Particularly her poetry
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Using Strategy, we start to choose our battles and sort out the most effective action: when to work with other Targets, when to make demands of social institutions, when to confront individual Agents, when not to act.
This reminds me a lot of what Dr. Joy DeGruy was explaining during the video.
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We call these the Re-Centering skills. Using ReCentering skills, we collaborate with other Targets and with ally Agents to challenge system of oppression in the most effective, humanizing and streamlined ways. We use our understanding of systems of oppression to move into leadership roles in our social-change work.
I think this speaks volumes regarding questioning the social norms to expose disparities.
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e begin to see the Rank dynamics, and in our hearts we know that the subtle and not-so-subtle inequity we experience is real, and that we should not have to conform to it .
The microaggressions are just as detrimental as someone being loudly racist. It's the situations that can fall under the surface but still contribute to the status quo that appears as though; it is harder to address and perhaps this is where Confusion Skills might take place or just deciding if whether or not the energy is worth it.
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The second Survival skill is to fit the stereotype that the Agent group has of our Target group: to move, think and talk in conformity with Agent expectations for our group.
Referring to Herbert Kohl's Article (The Politics of Children's Literature: What's Wrong with Rosa Parks Myth). The school system was trying to portray Rosa Parks as a person who was not intentionally going against this survival skill, but merely blaming the heat for not conforming to the agent's expectation.
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It takes more effort to use higher level skills, and we tend to choose the easier path that uses less-developed skills
This could refer to the education system; It does play a contributor in regards to privileged people not noticing or just being okay with the rank machine.
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We also learned to sort and categorize other people based on their social membership assignment, and to expect certain behavior from them because of theirRank makeup.
I think this is why within the news media, or just in society itself; anybody from a privileged rank often gets more recognition for challenging the system.
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And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
I thought this quote was critical; this visibility is what people from a privileged rank often try to reject because it produces discomfort on their end.
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Page 9of 11the time now that if I were to have been born mute, or had maintained an oath of silence my whole life long for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die. It is very good for establishing perspective.
I think this may mean that remaining "cooperative" to the system does not entail a promise of politeness but will instead keep a Target silent.
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we share a commitment to language and to the power of language, and to the reclaiming of that language which has been made to work against us.
"reclaiming the language," is a step towards going outside of the Agent's expectations.
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. In 2016, a woman for the first time was nominated by a major political party for President. A former fighter pilot is now an Arizona congresswoman. Of incumbent female governors, four are Republicans and three are Democrats
It's movements similar to the women's march that helped structure the path for women to be in politics though.
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