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Grassroots Organizing vs. Artistic Creativity
Well, my fellow YP4 fellows, I've been doing a lot of experience/searching/thinking about which types of activism I am best suited for.
Navigating through the Oppression Olympics
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Facing Race Conference hosted by the Applied Research Center in Oakland, California.
A Culture of Oppression: Education, Deafness, and Blackness in America
A Culture of Oppression: Education, Deafness, and Blackness in America
The word ‘culture’ is so malleable, flexible, all
encompassing (at least from a cosmopolitan point of view) that I feel any
person wishing to deny a certain group the right to constitute themselves a
specific culture to entirely out of line. If any group of people can find
something in common with one another that allows them to feel safe, accepted,
and allows them to relate, I believe they should be able to label it their
culture. Subcultures, or cultures that do not necessarily find themselves in
the same social hierarchy as mainstream cultures, are still cultures regardless