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Student Choice Assignment: Getting the Message Out

SSW102 – Diversity: Awareness and Practice

Camille Abraham - 018310136

Professor Tanya Shute

November 28, 2013

What it means to be working with an Anti-Oppressive Framework

#JenniferClarke

They just don't mix.

#Oppression #DoingAnti-OppressiveSettlementWork #JenniferClarke

Ain't that the truth.

The Constitution Act of 1982

Section 35 outlining the rights of Aboriginal peoples.

Absolute BS for what the Indigenous people have to put up with. In turn for all their land, rights and culture we repay them with the 'no tax' clause. The GTA, worth million, probably billions of dollars sitting on their land, and they cannot have it.

#AboriginalAct #Rights

Check out Dare 2 Dance with Victoria Park CI

In high school a group of dancers and I had decided to enter TDSB’s Dare2Dance Competition. We made it all the way to finals (YAY US!) and this was our dance. But before we entered, the rules were that we had to pick a social justice issue, and of course our group decided on oppression. The two young ladies that are wearing red blazers, are our oppressors and the rest of us wearing black and grey are the oppressed group. Our prop was a red silk tie signifying that we are the oppressed and that they have a control over us and without realizing it we conform to their ideologies and we soon get comfortable knowing that they will forever rule over us. BUT, soon we break free, we are no longer controlled by our oppressors and we overcome the hold they have on us. Enjoy (:

Oppression can only survive through silence.

The only way to "get the message out" is if we are not silenced. In order for change to come about, we must speak on the issue and educate others.

#DiversityandAwareness #StudentChoiceAssignment #OptionA #GettingTheMessageOut

I found this diagram to be very interesting. This pretty much sums up Canada itself. We live in a Capitalist Society and this is exactly how it functions.

#Capitalism #mulally #CapitalismCrisesandParadigms

Class is a very powerful force in most societies...

#Mulally

All figures are from 2012.

This is a list of the Top 10 highest paid CEOs in Canada.

Can you spot the similarities?

The Labour Market; One place where your race will affect you and determine your opportunities and economic outcomes (Li, 2008).

#Race #WhiteMalePrivilege

I remember learning about The Web of Oppression in class, and all I kept thinking was that a man that suites this or is closest to the center (which contains the most power and privilege) would be Bill Gates.

Depending on where you are placed according to each characteristic is what determines your status and your identity (Mulally, 2010).

"Silence is just as oppressive as a visible act of oppression." (Mulally, 2010)

#Mulally #invisibleprivilege #UnpackingOurKnapsackofInvisiblePrivilege #Oppression

Many who are privileged do not even realize that they are privileged. It is an invisible concept (Mulally, 2010) to those who possess it. In the reading "Unpacking Our Knapsacks of Invisible Privilege" they discuss the concept of Allan Johnson and how there was a specific system to privilege. There are three structures that instill the concepts of oppression and privilege and make us believe that they must exist.

the institutions that are responsible to shaping our minds (i.e. families, workplaces and schools) are mainly dominated by the privileged groups

When we are doing a social comparison, it is most likely a comparison between the oppressed and the privileged groups

The foundation to all of our learning is built around privileged groups

All three characteristics reinforce that privilege groups are superior to all and therefore deserve their privilege (Mulally, 2010).

the Oppressors and the Oppressed.

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