Week 1 Flashcards
me too accelarators
- 2006: Tarana Burke wrote ‘me too’
- 2017: alyssa Milano on twitter
- 2018: tarana Burke: 1 of 100 most influencial people
–> broadening global impact: not just sexual herassment - 2022: Boos and DWDD
Why did me too take longer on uni than in hollywood?
less woman in power positions to adress the issue
Covid 19 accelarators
- dec 2019: first case of pneumonia of unknown origin in wuhan
- jan 2020: corona identified as cause
- feb 2020: global health crisis
- march 2020: pandamic
what enhances the virus (covid)?
differences between and wthin countries
Why people in poverty with greater risk of infection and death w/ covid?
- less facilities
- less resources
- living close together
- not able to work form home
–> think about everyone when making policy
why increase in domestic violence w? covid ?
- at home
- frustration
- financial problems
what happend to educational systems
- inadequancies and inequities
- more cheating
- not access for everyone: hous schooling, a quiet room, laptops or internat
- increase in mental health problems
Other covid related problems?
- longterm concequences for careers of people who took on most care and household
- hoger precalence of discrimination
accelarators BLM
- july 13 2013: george zimmerman: self defence
- august 2014: michael brown shot and killend in missoury: launche BLM from alicia garza, patrice cullors and opal tometi
- april 4 2015: BLM network founded
points of BLM
people of colour face systematic exclusion and racism
why protests in western europe around BLM?
- colonisation history
- migration backround
why is not everyone equally impacted with climate change?
- housing
- flueds
- fire, different climate areas
What is diversity?
all posible visible and non vissible differences:
- age
- gender
- skin colour
- physical ability
what is gender?
a social construct based on norms values and roles determined by social and cultural facors
what is you sex
biological
what is your gender identity?la
- how you feel
- how you describe yourself
- expression
- what you communicate through
what is culture?
a complex whole:
- knowledge
- believe
- art
- law
- shared by members of a group who belong in it, it also devides
what is eurocentrism?
regarding european cultures as the benchmark for everything: rate it higher than other cultures
what is intersectionality?
illustrates the different aspects of a persons identiy that determine that persons social position
(concept by american rights activist kimaberle crenshaw)
what are the 7 vinkjes?
- man
- hetro
- wit
- 1 HE parent
- 1 dutch speaking parent
- vwo diploma
- uni diploma
how does uni still exclude
by using seemingly value neutral or objective measures set up by a group with the same diversity dimentions: gatekeepers who control acces to privalegded positions and power
what is a stereotype
overly generalised belief/ image about a particular group of people: all members with specific characteristics/ skills
why do we have stereotypes?
to simplify the world
. it leades to social categorization and prejudice: feelings towards a group
what leads to discrimination and reinforces prejudices?
fear of unknown and loss of ones own status