The 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. You can see an overview of our class sessions here.