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Discrimination and Homophobia: Dual Burden for GLBTQ Youth of Color

Discrimination and Homophobia: Dual Burden for GLBTQ Youth of Color

Alejandra (Alex) [email protected]

Alejandra (Alex) [email protected]

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Workshop GoalsWorkshop Goals

1. To briefly share and touch on the social and historical influences on society that influence risk behavior in LGTBQ youth

2. Develop an awareness of your own values, assumptions and beliefs and the way they impact your work with partnerships, community-based organizations, policy makers and schools

3. Explore strategies for promoting cultural fluent adult allies that support inclusive environments for youth

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CultureCulture

“The line between cultural identity and sexual identity is confusing… especially for me”

Deijah Franklin , 16 yrs old

“The line between cultural identity and sexual identity is confusing… especially for me”

Deijah Franklin , 16 yrs old

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Cultural Identity vs. Sexual IdentityCultural Identity vs. Sexual Identity

Cultural Identity

•On Family of origin•Based on geographical influence•Based on historical influence•Based on 1st Developed identity of self according to ages and stages of child development•Based on emotional safety zones

Cultural Identity

•On Family of origin•Based on geographical influence•Based on historical influence•Based on 1st Developed identity of self according to ages and stages of child development•Based on emotional safety zones

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Sexual Identity•Based on level of awareness•Based on emotional thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions•Based on intimate sense of connection to others and likes•Based on primal instincts •Based on social cultural influence positive or negatives•Based on social norms

Sexual Identity•Based on level of awareness•Based on emotional thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions•Based on intimate sense of connection to others and likes•Based on primal instincts •Based on social cultural influence positive or negatives•Based on social norms

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Comfortable/UncomfortableComfortable/Uncomfortable

Call for safe or not safe spaces

Avoid using “the default” culture

Increase awareness of inclusive language

Think outside of the personal experience

There is not magic bullet, we are process base

Call for safe or not safe spaces

Avoid using “the default” culture

Increase awareness of inclusive language

Think outside of the personal experience

There is not magic bullet, we are process base

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• Historical Powers• Institutional Powers• People Power

• Historical Powers• Institutional Powers• People Power

Context : Types of Power

Context : Types of Power

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Historical PowerHistorical Power

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Historical PowerHistorical Power

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Historical Power - “ ISIMS”Historical Power - “ ISIMS”

Fighting Sexism- Women Vote Movement

• White/Light skin

• Male

• Christian

• Upper Social Economical Class

• Old / Age

• Heterosexual

• Not Disabled

• Beauty/Looks

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Institutional PowersInstitutional Powers

Religious Institutions

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Family Institutions

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Teachers / Schools

Carlos GarciaSuperintendent SFUSD

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Financial – Media – Military and Other Institutions

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16The New Faces of Institutional PowersThe New Faces of

Institutional Powers

Political Institutions - Government

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People PowerPeople Power

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2020

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Abuse of PowerAbuse of Power

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Abuse of Power

Abuse of Power

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Student PowerStudent Power

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Tiananmen Square

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The Berlin Wall - 1989

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Civil Rights

The students that challenged segregation

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Student Power

Student Power

Immigration Marches

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The Poem – Countee Cullen“The Incident”

The Poem – Countee Cullen“The Incident”

Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee.

I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small. And he was no whit bigger.

And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."

I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December;

Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember.


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Identifying RolesIdentifying Roles• Allies

• Stake Holders

• Gatekeepers

• Oppressors


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Reclamation Theory

IntelligentZesty

Cooperative

Empathetic/Loving

Curious


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Thank you very much! Thank you very much!

“We are architects of a civilization that we might not see built”

- Archbishop Oscar Romero –

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