Description

My goal for this course is to provide you with a foundational understanding of Social justice. This means that you will learn the concepts, theory and language to understand Social Justice and understand oppression. More importantly you will learn about these things from a LIBERATION perspective. Unfortunately, much of the time the work we do is fighting against something rather than fighting FOR something. Understand this: We study oppression not for the sake of studying oppression, we study it so that we may better understand how to enact liberation. This course will teach all of its material from that perspective.

We will also focus on doing this work from an intersectional perspective. Understanding the larger phenomenon of oppression and how it operates across identity allows us to be more effective in doing liberation work in intersectional ways. It also allows us to create bridges of empathy so that we may be more aware of places where we have privilege and dominant identities. To see an overview of our class sessions, please click here. 

Section Two of this course is designed for public figures and people with large media platforms. Learning about and addressing issues of Social Justice can be both challenging and intimidating. This is particularly true for public figures. Being in the public eye brings greater exposure and sometimes greater pressure.  This section is designed exclusively with those challenges in mind and will include several issues dedicated to strategizing your approach to incorporating social justice into the work you do.