Week 1&2
A cultural knowledge system shared by a society
Discriminating against disabled people through the privileging of non-disabled people.
What does BIPOC stand for?
Black, Indigenous, People of Colour
Define agency
Being able to make choices and decisions and influence one's world
Capacity of individuals to act with awareness of what we are doing
Define bodymind difference
A way of challenging the idea that the body and mind are separate.
Define moral panic
When public fears and state interventions exceed the objective threat posed by an individual or group who are claimed to be responsible for creating the panic.
Define social norms
Social norms are the written and unwritten rules that designate acceptable behaviours in a particular group, community, society, or culture
A set of beliefs and practices aimed at improving the human population through controlled breeding.
Define code switching
The ways in which a member of an underrepresented group adjusts their syntax, language, behaviour, appearance to fit in with the dominant culture
What is reproductive justice?
Reproductive justice requires that every individual be able to make their own choices about their reproductive lives and have access to reproductive health services
Define biopolitics
Biopolitics – When a population is being treated as a problem
Systemic racism vs institutional racism
Systemic racism- occurs when we privilege a majority of racial groups while systemically presenting disadvantages for other racial groups through social, political and economic systems
Institutional racism- policies and practices that systemically produce racial inequality in institutions.
Bonus: what is intersectionality?
“Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it locks and intersects. I tis the acknowledgement that everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and privilege.”
Settler Colonialism vs Colonialism
Settler Colonialism- When people from a place of imperial power move to a region and displace those indigenous to the land through genocide, expulsion, or segregation.
Colonialism- involves the oppression and exploitation of people and land
Children as innocent vs childhood innocence
Children as innocent = individual capabilities and abilities
Childhood innocence= construction of childhood. Socially constructed as time of innocence