The Channel 4 (2020) video depicting school children participating in a Privilege Walk, based on McIntosh’s (1988) concept, is confronting and (if I’m honest) uncomfortable. The practice of the Privilege Walk sharply reveals to peers the privileges some people inherently embody due to our intersecting positionalities. The Privilege Walk (as shown in the difficult-to-read YouTube […]
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Kwame Anthony Appiah (2014) makes the case for not being so definitive in what we see religion as: “there is no such thing as religion to be good or bad” (Appiah, 2014). He argues this because there is no definition of religion which satisfies all aspects of religion (or faith). For example, globally we would […]
DIS-abled. The nomenclature itself is problematic. The emphasis on dis- (a Latin-rooted prefix meaning not, opposite, lack of, etc) suggests that some human constructed structure — be it social, societal, physical, or architectural — has dis-abled the person. As though the words themselves have written in some warped notion of hierarchy when a person is […]