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Anti-oppression Date: October 4, 2018 Location: Friends House Presenters: Nadine Nasir - Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership Aleks Dughman-Manzur -Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (Refugee Programs) Martha Singh


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Date: October 4, 2018 Location: Friends House Presenters:

  • Nadine Nasir - Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership
  • Aleks Dughman-Manzur -Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto

(Refugee Programs)

  • Martha Singh Jennings - Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto

(Refugee Programs)

Anti-oppression

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Agenda

  • Video & Exercise
  • Self-reflection
  • MCC Toronto’s Refugee Programs Presentation
  • Exploring identity
  • Understanding oppression & anti-oppression
  • Allyship Exercise
  • Self-reflection & Commitment Setting
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Video

Boonaa Mohammed “Green Card”

http://boonaa.com/

https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=-Th04ZQCt5A

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Exercise

  • 1. Read the highlighted quote.
  • 2. As a group, create ONE sentence that describes how

every single person in your group feels about the quote. Everyone must agree with the sentence.

This is a “silent discussion”.

Participants cannot speak to each other.

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Circles of Self

  • Who are you?
  • What identities do you carry?

Please fill in as many circles as you wish with your various “identities.”

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Identities

“who you are, the way you think about yourself, the way you are viewed by the world and the characteristics that define you” – Your Dictionary

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Examples of Identity Categories

Ability Socioeconomic status Ethnicity Gender Race Religion/ Spirituality Sexuality Other:

  • Worker
  • Sister
  • Student
  • Trauma

survivor

  • Care taker
  • Activist
  • Etc.

Identity

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OPPRESSION

The systemic mistreatment and marginalization of people based solely on their membership in an identity group. Oppression is institutionalized, historically formed, and perpetuated over time.

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Identity & Oppression

Oppression based on… Assumed Standard (mainstream) Assumed “Other” (marginalized) Form of Discrimination Race White Indigenous, Black, People

  • f color, biracial/multi-racial

Racism Gender Male, cisgender Female, transgender, gender-nonconforming, genderfluid Sexism, Misogyny, Transphobia Class Middle/upper class Working class, poor Classism Ability Able-bodied or non- disabled Disabled Ableism Sexual Orientation Heterosexual Homosexual, bisexual, queer Homophobia, Biphobia

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POWER

Possession of control, authority, or influence over others.

Includes:

  • The ability to influence others
  • The ability to enforce your own beliefs,
  • r affect situations to your benefit
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Power Imbalance

Service Providers Newcomers

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PRIVILEGE

The unearned advantages that members of a dominant group receive because of their membership to that group.

When a system of oppression marginalizes and

  • ppresses one group, it empowers another group.

Privilege often seems invisible to those who have it.

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PREJUDICE

A conscious or unconscious negative belief about a whole group of people and its individual members.

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PREJUDICE POWER

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DISCRIMINATION

The act of denying a person of

  • pportunities, resources, or access

because of their membership to a particular group.

The person discriminating has POWER to deny opportunities, resources, or access.

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OPPRESSION

The systemic mistreatment and marginalization of people based solely on their membership in an identity group. Oppression is institutionalized, historically formed, and perpetuated over time.

Again, POWER is needed to “mistreat” and “marginalize”

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Levels of Oppression

Personal: Actions or behaviours rooted

in prejudice.

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Institutional:

Conscious: Oppression is maintained through social institutions that are specifically designed to marginalize or disempower Unconscious: Oppression is maintained through social institutions unintentionally, because institutions are built by people who hold underlying prejudices and are influenced by oppressive cultural norms.

Levels of Oppression

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Levels of Oppression

Cultural:

Oppression is maintained through the cultural perspectives of the dominant group, which is imposed on individuals and institutions.

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Levels of Oppression

Personal Institutional Cultural

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ALLYSHIP

An active and consistent practice

  • f unlearning and re-evaluating, in

which a person of privilege seeks to

  • perate in solidarity with a

marginalized group of people.

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Allyship Exercise

  • 1. Watch the Skit
  • 2. Consider how the Settlement Worker

could have been a better ally

  • 3. The skit will run again. Change the

Settlement Worker’s script by shouting

  • ut suggestions about how she could

be a better ally.

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Self-reflection and Commitment Setting

  • 1. Add identities that may have come to mind during the

workshop

  • 2. Mark the categories that give you privilege with a star
  • 3. Identify how you can use your privilege to affect positive

change within your organization or sector.

  • 4. List any identities that you are unfamiliar with, and wish to

learn more about to be a better ally.

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Date: October 4, 2018 Location: Friends House Presenters:

  • Nadine Nasir, Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership
  • Aleks Dughman-Manzur, Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto

(Refugee Programs)

  • Martha Singh Jennings, Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto

(Refugee Programs)

Anti-oppression

Train the Trainer Presentation

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Identity Categories

Ability Socioeconomic status Ethnicity Gender Race Religion/ Spirituality Sexuality Other:

  • Worker
  • Sister
  • Student
  • Trauma

survivor

  • Care taker
  • Activist
  • Etc.

Identity

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Identity & Oppression

Oppression based on… Assumed Standard (mainstream) Assumed “Other” (marginalized) Form of Discrimination Race White Indigenous, Black, People

  • f color, biracial/multi-

racial Racism Gender Male, cisgender Female, transgender, gender-nonconforming, genderfluid Sexism, Misogyny, Transphobia Class Middle/upper class Working class, poor Classism Ability Able-bodied or non- disabled Disabled Ableism Sexual Orientation Heterosexual Homosexual, bisexual, queer Homophobia, Biphobia

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Power: Possession of control, authority, or influence over

  • thers.

Privilege: The unearned advantages that members of a dominant group receive because of their membership to that group. Prejudice: A conscious or unconscious negative belief about a whole group of people and its individual members.

Power, Privilege & Prejudice

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PREJUDICE POWER

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Discrimination & Oppression

Discrimination: The act of denying a person of opportunities, resources, or access because of their membership to a particular group. Oppression: The systemic mistreatment and marginalization of people based solely on their membership in an identity group. Oppression is institutionalized, historically formed, and perpetuated over time.

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Levels of Oppression

Personal Institutional Cultural

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ALLYSHIP

An active and consistent practice

  • f unlearning and re-evaluating, in

which a person of privilege seeks to

  • perate in solidarity with a

marginalized group of people.

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Self-reflection and Commitment Setting

  • 1. Add identities that may have come to mind during the

workshop

  • 2. Mark the categories that give you privilege with a star
  • 3. Identify how you can use your privilege to affect positive

change within your organization or sector.

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Nadine Nasir Adult Educator Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership

  • St. Stephen’s Community House

647-460-1569 nnadine@sschto.ca