What is social identity?
Here we explore the identifications that determine our governmental, economic and social outcomes.
Identity Signs
Engage your team with this activity by focusing on different social identities and how they intersect, interact, and affect our daily lives.
The Safe Zone Project
The MSW@USC Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and Privilege
Better understand the historical context of identity politics and the dynamics of power and privilege, and help build greater self-awareness.
Jeremy Goldbach
Social Identity Wheel
Identify and reflect on the various ways one identifies socially, how those identities become visible, and how they impact the way others perceive or treat her.
University of Michigan
The intersectionality wars
When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.
Jane Coaston @ Vox
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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