Sunday, September 20, 2015
By now I'm sure everyone has heard the tale of Ahmed Mohamed, the teenager who was put in handcuffs for bringing his homemade clock to school. This incident is a shameful example of predjudice getting out of hand, but has luckily turned out for the better for Ahmed in all the support he has found following his suspension. Since the story has spread, a lot of questions have been asked over the...
Sunday, September 13, 2015
A lot of the posts on this blog are based off of articles on other social justice websites. This week, i decided it was time for a change. I searched through my favorite websites, Psychology Today, for some insight on unconscious bias and what I found was an article that both shocked and impressed me.
Check it out here.
Dr. Mikhail Lyubansky expands on some issues outlined...
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Privilege. I have it. You have it. Now what?
I've come to realize that I've drilled the importance of self-reflection into this blog, but not once have I described what self-reflection is, or what it looks like in the context of privilege. I'm going to try to fix that as best as I can.
Self-reflection, in layman's terms, is "meditation or serious thought about one's character, actions, and motives."...
Sunday, August 30, 2015
And the Moonman for Best Hip Hop video goes to.. #VMAs http://t.co/SWRN5MPOOT
— MTV (@MTV) August 31, 2015
Nicki
Manaj's acceptance video has been a buzz all throughout social media
for the past few days. Her firm, assertive stance on white
artists winning awards by appropriating black artists' styles has
earned her a title as a revered voice of reason in the music
industry: a beacon...
Sunday, July 19, 2015
It's easy to admit that privilege exists, but admitting it exists in ourselves is a whole other beast, and it seems like the more privilege you have, the less you actually get the concept of privilege. Personal accountability is a bullet dodged far too often, and according to a study released this past week by the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the reason why comes with a common misconception...
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Sunday, June 21, 2015
It's no secret that women, particularly women in color, face the brunt of significant bias in their careers. But you'll be shocked to know the extent of it. According to a study by the Harvard Business Review, which included 557 surveys and 67 in-depth interviews from women in science, female scientists find that they constantly have to "prove" themselves to male co-workers. Prejudice fills these...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Christian privilege is being able to practice your religion without any interference from society. This has been a long running issue for the Muslim community, however, it seems that one very small success has been made this past weekend. According to The Guardian the supreme court has overseen the case concerning Abercrombie and Fitch's firing of Muslim workers for wearing hijabs on the grounds...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
A couple of weeks ago, I mused on the implications of Caitlyn Jenner's coming out as transgendered. At this point, it seems silly to not to do the same for her debut as a woman on Vanity Fair. Aside from a couple of ignorant tweets, Caitlyn's reception has overall been very supportive. Many are calling this transition a turning point for trans acceptance in society, however, that isn't entirely true....
Sunday, May 24, 2015
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
This week the white house opened up its first set of gender neutral bathrooms!
Those who don't identify with a defined gender often have trouble finding a comfortable, judgement free place to use the restroom. It's a plight no cisgendered person has ever experienced, but it seems, for the most part, that when people cant specifically catagorize a bathroom patron's gender, tery generally tend to...
Sunday, April 5, 2015
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
I am cisgendered. Which means that I can never fully understand what it feels like to misgendered, or how detrimental this can be to somebody's self esteem, but I do know that being recognized as the correct gender is a huge issue within the transgender community. This is why it is so important to be diligent in recognizing and supporting those who are transgendered or transitioning, and the very...
Sunday, March 15, 2015
As one who grew up in a Hispanic family, operating among a multi-language environment was never anything strange to me. I have members of my family who are fluent in both English and Spanish, and others who can only speak one or the other. For most of my life, I operated under the belief that the language somebody spoke just was. I never really focused on the fact that I could understand my mother...
Sunday, March 8, 2015
This Buzzfeed article has been trending for a while, and I've felt the need to share it since the first time I came across it. José's story is as shocking as it is tragic. Most importantly, it is representative of the unconscious bias that many of us have.
It is unlikely that each one of the hundreds of employers José contacted consciously...
Sunday, March 1, 2015
In the past couple of months, we have gone over a number of forms of privilege (white, thin, able-bodied, class, ect.) and the actions and fallacies that cause major disparities in our society. While examples of these actions and fallacies mostly include racism, discrimination and hate crimes, there are more out there. That's why, today, I want to dive into the power of words.
We...
Sunday, February 22, 2015
As the PEW research center finds, 87% of Christians, no matter country they live in, find themselves being a part of the majority religion in their society. Anybody whose willing to drive two blocks down their neighborhood could confirm that America is no different.
Most Christians don't think twice about how their Religion effects how people treat them -- that's because being a Christian...
Sunday, February 8, 2015
So the Super Bowl was exactly one week ago, which means I may be late to the party, but I still felt like Alway's "Run Like a Girl" ad was worth mentioning. Growing up, "Like a girl" was always something I heard with a negative connotation, but it never really put me down, I just accepted it. I was a girl and therefore I ran slower, I couldn't throw, I wasn't as smart. Looking back, I know that...
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Earlier this week Disney released its design for their first Latina princess ever. Corks were blown off of campaign bottles, parades filled the streets, and the media celebrated this leap in pop culture diversity. All for basically no reason at all. The initial problem here is that we are waaay past...
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Earlier this week, I was surfing the internet and came across the Cisgender Privilege Checklist released by Oberlin College. This is so important. We hear about white privilege, class privilege, and male privilege all the time, but too often is the full extent of gender privilege truly considered. I could not imagine the amount of pain that comes with the feeling of being a prisoner in...
Sunday, January 18, 2015
This spoken word poem is proof that we are not beyond racism. The fact that people feel the need to act a specific way because of their race is not only heartbreaking, but shameful evidence that stereotypes affect people more than we think they do. Being smart or ignorant, cruel or kind, honest or dishonest are traits without color. Becoming who we are is never a matter of breaking or adhering...
Sunday, January 11, 2015
The salience of racial inequality has been always been questioned, perhaps now more than ever. While people are still debating over whether or not racism still exists in a post-segregation era, there is something that most Americans can get behind when discussing racial bias: it's wrong. Call me optimistic, but I'd guess that if I were to pull 10 people from my neighborhood aside and ask them...
Sunday, January 4, 2015
The New Year's resolution has always been one of my least favorite holiday traditions. The first of January is just an ordinary day, there's nothing that's specially ordained it to be a day where change is any more possible or will power is any stronger, yet many still like to follow the "New Year new me" trend. What I find to be the most regrettable part of it all is the fact that the number one...
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