If you were to make an off-color comment to me and defend yourself by saying that you don’t have a racist/sexist/classist bone in your body, or that you are “colorblind” your response would give me an important piece of information about you. Because as the song goes, everyone’s a little bit racist.
Author: Kella Hanna-Wayne
22 Ways to Make Retail Workers Love You
If you have any friends who work retail, you’ve probably heard a lot of their horror stories. In order to avoid being labeled one of those customers, here are 22 Do’s and Don’ts for how to make retail workers love you.
What Is Socialization?
If you’ve been in the social justice world for very long, you’ve probably heard variations on the phrase, “You were socialized to be X.” But what does that mean? What is socialization?
How Did You Meet Your Abusive Partner?
Most abusive relationship stories lie in the story of how you left: How did you get out? What was the final straw? How awful did things have to get before you finally had enough? When it comes to abusive relationships, no one ever asks, How did you two get together? How did you meet your abusive partner?
Explaining Privilege Part 4: Privilege is an Invisibility Cloak
Privilege can bring you many benefits, and eliminate many obstacles for you. But privilege can also mask negative traits such as incompetence, unethical behavior, and dishonesty. Privilege can give you literal get-out-of-jail-free cards, to the detriment of people who lack that privilege. Privilege is an invisibility cloak.
A Quaker’s Defense of Violent Resistance Tactics
After every big BLM protest, hundreds of people climb out of the woodwork to shout “violence is always wrong,” despite having no understanding of non-violence works as a tactic. As non-religious quaker dedicated to nonviolence, I’m uniquely qualified to defend these protests. This is a quaker’s defense of violent resistance tactics.
Explaining Privilege Part 3: The Scrutiny of Oppressed Groups
We often talk about privilege in terms of the positives, the benefits you receive: Resources, freedom, trust, and benefit of the doubt are extremely common ones. But what about the flip side? The opposite of privileged groups receiving the benefit of the doubt is the scrutiny of oppressed groups.
10 Things I Love About Being Disabled
Disability is often discussed in terms of tragedy and hardship. It’s not very often that you hear someone talk about the things they love about being disabled. But maybe we should.
New Clothes: Disability Accommodation & Body Acceptance
This article captures a moment in time when I was going to start receiving financial support, which granted me the freedom to focus on ways I could implement disability accommodation into my life, instead of always fighting back.
The Blue Book: The First Time I Learned About Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
When my physical therapist gave me a book about ehlers danlos syndrome, I thought I would be reading about joint instability but this book wasn’t just about my pain problems. The book contained a list of every serious health problem I had ever had in my life, and potentially, a reason why they were connected.