5 I's of Oppression
Power Chart
Types of Change
100

A white teacher gets mad at black students for "being too loud".

What is interpersonal

100

A system of power that gives and maintains unjust power and privilege for wealthy people and oppresses working class people.

- what is classism?

100

This type of change is usually connected to Mutual Aid groups like the American Red Cross, Food Banks etc.

What is Service

200

Name all the five I's

What is Internalized

Interpersonal

Institutional

Ideological

Intersectional

200

Gender non-conforming people and trans people have less power in this system of oppression

what is cis-sexism 


200

This type of change can look like a celebrity speaking on behalf of an issue.

What is Advocacy

300


This same school disciplines Black women differently for wearing skirts shorter than a certain length than they discipline white women. 


What is institutionalized oppression? 

300

A system of power that gives and maintains unjust power and privilege for non-Black people and oppresses Black people

What is anti-Black racism 


300

This type of change can be done through a teach in

What is Education

400

The process whereby people in the oppressed group make oppression personal by coming to believe that the lies, prejudices, and stereotypes about them are true.

What is internalized oppression? 

400

The fact that queer youth are three times more likely to be homeless than heterosexual youth is an example of what system of oppression 


what is heterosexism

400

A base of people come together, identify issues that affect them and take action. 

What is Organizing

500

the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups

What is Intersectionality

500

Young people have less power and privileges in this system of oppression

What is adultism? 


500

The Black Panthers used these types of change

All-- Service (Free Breakfast Program) Organizing (base building toward direct action and civil disobediance) Education(reading list and education series')  Advocacy(helping to shift policy)

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