WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Robin Kelley, Transphobia, Wgst

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Katherine Bausch

Document Summary

Audre lourde"s who said it was simple - poem: intersectionality - the various things that make up our lives on terms of power and privilege, cant arbitrarily separate from one another. Aim to foster understanding of the many circumstances (conditional) that combine with discriminatory social practices (social) to produce and sustain inequality and exclusion. Examples of social practices: racism, classism, sexism, islamophobia, xenophobia, homophobia, ageism, cissexism, transphobia, antisemitism, heterosexism, ableism. Examples of conditional barriers: geographic location, legal rights, citizenship, immigrant or refugee status, globalization, capitalism, colonialism. The black students of brampton get stereotyped to be thugs . Want to break through as a person not just a skin colour. Quintuplets that were taken as wards of the king. Taken from parents and were studied by doctors. Quintland could pay to see the babies. Intersectional feminist frameworks: a primer and intersectionality wheel diagram (text 38-44: eli clare. !1: robin kelley, ten things everyone should know about race (text pp.