Anti-oppression
“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 facets of the dominant culture that one has internalized (i.e. sexism, the patriarchy, racism, ableism etc).
It is through becoming aware, then through deconstructing one's colonial baggage, that one becomes anti-colonial. The same is true for other systems of oppression. [1]
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