Vocab
Fair, equitable distribution of resources
What is justice?
Cancel culture
What is a way to hold people in positions of power accountable?
Who plays a role in oppression
What is everyone?
Name a rehumanizing movement
What are Black Lives Matter, #SayHerName, and/or #MeToo?
Oppression connecting at systemic and individual levels
What is intersectionality?
Socialization
What is behaving based off of internalized stereotypes that reinforce the status quo?
When oppression is normalized, inequality is justified as this
What is natural or inevitable?
The key to recognizing and dismantling oppression
What is historical context?
Unequal categories reinforced by ideology and institutional structures
What are hierarchies?
Horizontal hostility
What is devaluing members of your own group?
Using terms to refer to other humans as animals
What is dehumanizing?
This is is one approach to addressing the sense of powerlessness people feel, via community-based efforts
What is community powerbuilding?
A culture of openness to working through inevitable misunderstanding and conflict when diverse individuals and groups come together to challenge oppression
What is calling in?
Dog whistle
What is coded language usually masking something controversial or sinister that appeals to one group without provoking another?
Oppression becomes normalized by this and 'regimes of truth'
What is hegemony?
This can can lay a foundation to challenge oppression, but cannot dismantle it alone
What is education?
The disadvantaged view themselves and/or their own practices as inferior and negative
What is internalized insubordination?
Counter-storytelling
What is communicating the realities of marginalized groups by combatting narratives that rationalize oppression?
This mediates experiences of oppression
What is social location?
Social justice only works when there’s a sense of this between those who benefit and those who are disadvantaged
What is allyship?