At its heart, discrimination is when we are denied equal access to social spaces, opportunities, resources, or legal rights based on some facet of our identity. Discrimination can be encoded into laws, but it is more generally enforced by social custom and cultural norms. We frequently pass on stories, jokes, assumptions, and expectations that certain groups of people will behave in “undesirable” ways as a way to justify excluding them or thinking of them as less than ourselves, whether it is because of their gender, ethnicity, age, religious affiliation, nationality, sexual orientation, language, or any other intrinsic part of who they are. Confronting the subtle enforcement of discrimination in our own lives is the first step toward energizing our communities to become more open, compassionate, and vibrant.
Research suggests that weight discrimination permeates the American workplace. A recent Harvard study examined how biases change over time. Researchers examined data that was collected over nine years and measured implicit and explicit biases.
After an unprecedented increase in racist acts both in the United States and globally in 2018, there was some good news in 2019. According to research from the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES), documented acts of racism in sports in the U.S.
We have inherited a world full of humans who have been healed and hurt by other humans. There was a time, in an age before this one, when ignorance was forgivable. But that time has passed. Now is not the time for the enlightened to sneer at the brutes. Sneering hurts people.
The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of...
It’s only halfway through the year, but state lawmakers across the nation have already proposed a record-breaking number of anti-trans laws. Many of these laws seek to restrict transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming medical care and participating in sports.
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