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== Why is anti-oppressive work so critical? == | |||
<p>We have been socialized in cultures founded upon multiple forms and overlapping layers of oppression, often leading us to inadvertently perpetuate dehumanizing behaviors, situations, and structures. Our oppressive actions diminish us, divide us, and inhibit our ability to organize broad-based, emancipatory movements.</p> | <p>We have been socialized in cultures founded upon multiple forms and overlapping layers of oppression, often leading us to inadvertently perpetuate dehumanizing behaviors, situations, and structures. Our oppressive actions diminish us, divide us, and inhibit our ability to organize broad-based, emancipatory movements.</p> | ||
Revision as of 21:04, 19 October 2022
“Doing anti-oppression work […] is not only about confronting individual examples of bigotry or societal examples, it is also about confronting ourselves and our own roles of power and oppression in our communities and in the general context." - Stephanie Jeremie, La Forge. Anti-oppression involves deconstructing the oppressive ideas of the dominant culture that one has internalized (i.e. sexism, the patriarchy, racism, ableism etc).
Why is anti-oppressive work so critical?
We have been socialized in cultures founded upon multiple forms and overlapping layers of oppression, often leading us to inadvertently perpetuate dehumanizing behaviors, situations, and structures. Our oppressive actions diminish us, divide us, and inhibit our ability to organize broad-based, emancipatory movements.
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