The Bases and Basics of Bias in Our Society

Allies, Advocates, Co-Conspirators, Friends, Sisters: A Playbook for Leading, Learning, and Liberation

Welcome to the Course!

Tactic One: Understand Privilege and Position, But Don’t Freeze

Tactic Two: Say No to Monoculture – Unlearn Minimizing and Ignoring

Quotable Quote (0:09)
Tactic Two: Say No to Monoculture – Unlearn Minimizing and Ignoring - Intro (14:26)
Reflection time
More Resources
Flip it and Reverse It - The Limits of What You Can "Have" (0:07)
Reflection and Action
Quiz

Tactic Three: Banish Tone Policing and Stereotyping

Tactic Four: Run Away From Exoticism, Fascination, and Fetishization

Quotable Quote (0:24)
Tactic Four: Run Away From Exoticism, Fascination, and Fetishization Intro (23:32)
Fetishes are Bad (1:00)
Braids, A Discourse
The Grand Tour and the Appropriative Origins of Tourism (7:13)
Flip It and Reverse it - Colorism (0:07)
Take Action
Quiz

Tactic Five: Interrogate Power, to Expand It

Tactic Six: Retire the White Savior Approach

Tactic Seven: Reject Tokenism

Tactic Eight: Resist Performativism, Nice-Ism, and Virtue-Signaling

Quotable Quote (0:14)
Tactic Eight: Resist Performativism, Nice-Ism, and Virtue-Signaling - Intro (0:05)
Nice is Not Kind - And Vice Versa (12:24)
Reflection (0:29)
Additional Resources
Flip It and Reverse It: Respectability Politics (0:07)
Take Action
Quiz

Tactic Nine: Stop Ignoring History, Culture, Geography, and Context

Quotable Quote (0:16)
Tactic Nine: Stop Ignoring History, Culture, Geography, and Context - Intro (3:28)
A Baker’s Dozen of Myths, Mistruths, Half-Truths and Other Nonsense I Was Taught in School or from the TV Part One (26:53)
Reflection on Part One
A Baker's Dozen, Part Two (37:58)
Reflection on Part Two
A Baker's Dozen, Part Three (20:30)
Reflection on Part Three
Resources Galore!
Take Action
Bonus Video: Is Feminism Really White Supremacy in High Heels? (54:48)
Flip It and Reverse It: There Were White Advocates (0:07)
Quiz

Tactic Ten: Don’t Fall into the Trap of Over-Intellectualizing

Quotable Quote (0:16)
Tactic Ten: Don’t Fall into the Trap of Over-Intellectualizing - Intro (2:24)
Face Facts! Don’t Flee, Fight, Fawn, Freeze, Philosophize, Freak Out, Fantasize, Faint, Flip, Act Foolish, or Eff Up! (14:20)
Resources
Flip It and Reverse It: Humor (0:07)
On Beloved Community (12:15)
Do the Work. (43:51)
Final Reflections - From Thoughts to Feelings to Action! (3:38)
The Origin of this Course
Thank You!

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