The Question of Privilege by https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x "Colonialism and racism are assembled constructs, and are thus in need of disassembly" (Kempf, 2008, p. 102). en-us 2017-01-22 19:15:11 UTC 2025-03-07 19:36:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Please respond (however you see fit) to the following prompts: webyrnes https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/148589211 1. What power do I have?
2. How did I get it?
3. What am I doing with it?]]> 2017-01-22 19:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/148589211 POWER https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149126625 1. Shelter, access to food, money to spend on leisurely activities/entertainment, freedom of speech, right to vote, no violent oppression faced in daily life. Power of perspective.

2. I was born/ my parents worked hard to make a dece life for my family coming from other countries with few resources. People have fought for these rights and are currently fighting for them across the world, and it's thanks to them.

3. Living.]]> 2017-01-24 18:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149126625 RDubs: Privilege & Power https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128331 We did an exercice in a workshop where we created a "privilege list" where we literally listed our privileges so that it would be easier for us to acknowledge them. 
-White
-Female, cisgender
-Straight
-Able-bodied (mostly)
-Of average height 
-Upper middle-class
-Educated
-Canadian citizenship
-Parents, grandparents born in Canada
-English speaking
-Easy access to good technology]]> 2017-01-24 18:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128331 Olive-White-Homie https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128416 Sometimes I feel like I have two sets of privilege, one of being "white" in terms of colour and Canadian citizenship, but I also feel like I have power from my cultural upbringing as a Lebanese immigrant who went to school with a majority of other arabs and blacks. 
I find myself being able to "code switch" among both these identities, and consider myself "privileged " for both. 

]]> 2017-01-24 18:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128416 Sarah https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128462 Power I have: economic stability, fluent in English and Farsi, able-bodied, (used to be) straight passing, female/cisgender, dual citizenship
How did I get it: parents, TDSB, parents, socialization/long hair/feminine clothes, respectively
What am I doing with it: educating myself/family/friends, drawing bridges between cultures/ages, standing up for myself/family/friends]]> 2017-01-24 18:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128462 Rae https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128495 What power do I have?
-White
-Straight
-Cisgender
-English
-"Nuclear" family
-Lower/middle class
-No health issues

How did I get it?
-Born with it
-Live in a racist world
-Canada

What am I doing with it?
-Speaking less, listening more.
-Reading more, reflecting more.
-Professional Development about race and anti-oppression. ]]> 2017-01-24 18:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128495 Educating Myself https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128594 2017-01-24 18:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128594 What power do I have (Christina): https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128640 1.feelings of safety in most public spaces
feelings of mobility
2. from being white and using opportunities to become more and more mobile (socially, economically, physically)
3. ]]> 2017-01-24 18:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128640 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128708 Economic Power, english speaker]]> 2017-01-24 18:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128708 Privileges webyrnes https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128762 I grew up with two parents at home as a child.
I've always known where my next meal is coming from.
I'm white.
I'm cisgender.
Most of these were the product of a biological lottery.

What am I doing with them? 
Making efforts to act in solidarity with oppressed people (what does this mean?)
Acknowledging that my feelings matter less than the rights of others. If my feelings sting, I pause to ask why that is and is it legitimate?]]> 2017-01-24 18:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128762 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128774 I have the power to not be seen as 'minority', not be stopped or not having people assume that I'm a criminal just by looking at me. I got it by moving to this country from elsewhere. I can be here because of the Europeans who took this land and settled.]]> 2017-01-24 18:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128774 My parents https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128775 2017-01-24 18:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128775 Family Values https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128828 2017-01-24 18:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128828 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128845 1.) The power I have is over myself. The ability to make decisions on my own. I'd have to really probe in to see the particular powers I have, and whether any of them are over others. Or perhaps how I can unknowingly be affecting others. 

2.) The power I have I believe has been through birth, or earned. 

3.) I'm using my power in an attempt to provide for myself, and potentially even help others. I strongly believe that whatever I have, or am blessed with, is meant to be shared.]]> 2017-01-24 18:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128845 I have power as an immigrant . https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128974 2017-01-24 18:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149128974 Steve C https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129003 “What power do I have?
White, straight, middle class, educated - all these things allow me to access things other people can't
How did I get it?
My skin, my parents, government social programs, access to education
What am I doing with it?”
Trying to embody activist thinking/speaking at all times. Teaching for equity.


]]> 2017-01-24 18:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129003 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129067 1.]]> 2017-01-24 18:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129067 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129132 I'm still figuring out what to do with my power and my shifting identity depending on the circumstance. Teaching is a way to try to be in this work]]> 2017-01-24 18:50:42 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129132 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129157 I have the power of voice; being heard when I speak. 
This comes from being white., among other privileges.
I can use my voice to educate and to participate in solidarity and activism.]]> 2017-01-24 18:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129157 Guilt https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129405 I frequently struggle with guilt over my lack of action w.r.t. social justice issues - is saying 'I'll change something with my teaching' enough?]]> 2017-01-24 18:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129405 north american https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129607 white
SES
citizen/voter
literate


reading, listening]]> 2017-01-24 18:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129607 Dominant language and culture https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129630 2017-01-24 18:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129630 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129794 i try not to feel guilty for my privilege, rather be involved in dismantling ]]> 2017-01-24 18:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129794 I am healthy https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129817 2017-01-24 18:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149129817 Is it reverse affirmative action to be given special privileges as a visibe minority? https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149130292 More power...? ]]> 2017-01-24 18:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149130292 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149130493 I have the power to be an honest person and help others feel comfortable to do the same]]> 2017-01-24 18:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149130493 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149131779 It's not about giving a voice to the "voiceless". People who are "minorities" have a voice. It is our job as privileged educators to help them share it and amplify them without putting our voices in front of theirs. ]]> 2017-01-24 18:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149131779 https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149134887 I constantly struggle with having/not having power. 
I feel like my mixed race is a constant visual representation of my "split" between my families. My mom is an immigrant as is all of my relatives on her side(at least her generation). Whereas my Dad is from a white, irish, middle class settler family. And I'm constantly struggling with knowing the "code of privilege" but not being able to be in the group (dad's side) and then also having a different code, but not fully accepted into my mom's "racial identity"]]> 2017-01-24 19:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149134887 White https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149136430 Even though according to Arlo's chapter/reading, I am both white and racist, I don't quite associate with this whiteness. I spent more than half of my life on a continent with many shades of white. I can't, even in white supremacist Canada, fell clumped up together with Irish descendants, whose shade of white is much more pink/white than mine. Which brings me to question I had while reading this: are recent immigrants racist, just by being white-ish, and not actively fighting racism?]]> 2017-01-24 19:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/webyrnes/koe66god2m7x/wish/149136430