1. Welcome Identity, power and privilege: Becoming better allies

2. Introductions Ground rules The larger conversation (Twitter) Introductions Name How is privilege and identity work part of who you are becoming?

3. Social Location In recent decades, social justice theory is built on the foundation that privilege and oppression are connected to form an interlocking system of power that impacts us all in multiple ways every day. Most of us are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. Put another way for every act of oppression, there is an interconnected act of domination. Patricia Hill Collins referred to this idea as the “matrix of Domination” in her 1990 publication Black Feminist Thought.

4. Social Location Social location/locations are the aspects of ourselves that largely determine how we navigate the “matrix of domination” that Collins describes. I like to think of social location as the mode of transportation that each one of us uses to move through our experiences of power and privilege, or powerlessness and oppression.

5. Social Location In this exercise think about your social location (i.e. race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability). Social location also includes employment and type of employment, friends and social circles, location of your home and type of home, where you shop and feel comfortable shopping; in short any other aspect of yourself that contributes to your status in social groups. Social location can also include less tangible markers such as how you perceive yourself, how you think others perceive you, level of institutional authority, etc.

6. Posters