EQUITY ACTIVITIES

Our social identities bring us power and privilege and oppression. Learn about how our social identities intersect to bring us power or oppression. In ENGLISH AND FRENCH!

MY INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITY

MON IDENTITÉ INTERSECTIONNELLE

Many of us have seen a privilege walk or privilege race played out.
I caution us as educators to NOT conduct a privilege walk with students. It exposes student inequities, but at the expense of already marginalized students. It also frames the lesson as inherently FOR the privileged students, - oppressed students already know their oppression - which is re-traumatizing our students for the sake of educating our privileged students.

This activity does target specific oppressions for BIPOC (black & indigenous people of colour). It uses the video of the privilege walk as a specific criticism of that practice. We discuss who that activity was planned for? What lesson was supposed to be learned? We paused and looked at facial expressions of students. We listened to the coach's words and who he was speaking to directly. Good discussion. We moved through the statements of privilege to name them, without any sort of counting. There is a reflection piece afterwards.

EXAMINING PRIVILEGE