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University of Exeter Students' Guild: Change, Policy and Research training slides for Intersectional Approaches to Diversity.

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IntersectionalityAn Intersectional approach to

diversity

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Audre Lorde

An essay by Audre Lorde on not living single issue lives.

BASIC EVERYDAY COMPLEXWhat is

Intersectionality?

Discuss/think about the issues within the

cartoon.

Wikipedia Entry

Wikipedia entry on Intersectionality, with

references.

Either alone, or in a group with the training coordinator (if you have one,) go over the material and discuss the meaning and reasoning of intersectionality.

Think about how the sources relate to your experience(s) and how it makes you feel.

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Mapping the Margins

Socio-legal study of how Black women in the USA

experience the legal system.

BASIC EVERYDAY COMPLEXGender as performative

Judith Butler on performative gender.

Race and Gender

An Interview with Kimberle Crenshaw,

with the examples she uses to illustrate.

Either alone, or in a group with the training coordinator (if you have one,) go over the material and think about varying perspectives of intersecting marginalisation.

Think about how the materials relate to your experience(s) and how they make you feel.

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Distribution of Risk

A perspective on the extreme risks involved

with being a trans woman of colour.

BASIC EVERYDAY COMPLEXGender as normative

Judith Butler on normative gender, and coercive violence used

to enforce norms.

Transgender

Judith Butler on feminism which denies trans women a place in

feminist spaces.

Either alone, or in a group with the training coordinator (if you have one,) go over the material and think about varying perspectives of gender.

Think about how the materials relate to your experience(s) and how they make you feel.

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• “Check Your Privilege” isn’t meant to be a personal attack; think why someone might have said it rather than responding to it.

• When speaking about experiences, try not to universalise them and recognise additional risk - Street Lights being turned off (for example) might be threatening and serious for female students, but it also disproportionately affects Trans and LGB students, and students of colour who might be reacted against by people who have a stereotypical (and racist) attitude that more crime is committed by people of colour - which leads (for one example) to cases like Trayvon Martin in Florida.

• Don’t ever tell another human being that their own lived reality ‘couldn’t have happened’ or that they ‘should get over it’ or ‘it’s not important’ - no one gets to determine those things for another human being.

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