Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Community:
Unpacking and Unlearning Privilege
Facilitator: Krista Hunt

TUESDAY evenings in JUNE
June 3, 10, 17 and 24, from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required.
**Please call to register.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants.
Partially wheelchair accessible. Limited sliding scale spots available.

This course will explore the way that privileges (including gender, race, class, sexuality) and oppressions shape the way we see and experience the world. As participants come to this workshop with diverse and intersecting experiences of privilege and oppression, we will work together to challenge the way that power often operates invisibly and/or naturally in our lives because we have been taught myths about inequality that encourage us not to see or challenge the status quo. Through an engaged, popular education
workshop, students will actively unpack the impact of privilege and oppression in their daily lives and collectively engage in activities to unlearn those privileges.

Course Objectives:
- To encourage participants to examine how most of us are both privileged and oppressed
- To work from participants' own lives and experiences, and to explore the political questions and concerns that come out of this work
- To see how privilege fractures solidarity and to collectively examine how we can actively challenge inequality in our daily lives

Week 1: What are the intersections between privilege and oppression?
- World Upside down (create an imaginary situation through which people can experience the way that beliefs about women and limitations on women's roles can affect their lives; examine male privilege; discuss what kind of world we want to live in)
- Homework:  read Peggy McIntosh's 'Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of White Privilege' and Anonymous women living under Pinochet 'Rich Woman, Poor Woman'

Week 2: How have we learned not to see our privilege?
- Line of Privilege (explore how we experience privilege in contrast to others in the group)
- Homework: Following McIntosh, keep a weekly diary to discuss next class about the privilege(s) that shape your daily life

Week 3: In what ways do you now see the operation of privilege in your daily lives?
- Power triangle - seeing individual, ideational and systemic domination
- Think - Pair - Share: How can privilege be challenged?
- Homework: Audre Lorde, 'An Open Letter to Mary Daly'; taking action by challenging privilege in my daily life

Week 4: Now What? Challenging power and privilege
- Now What: Discuss how we challenged privileges - obstacles and how we did/can respond
- One minute paper: How can you use what you've learned to challenge power and privilege/what questions remain?

**This course is open to anyone who is committed to examining the impact of privilege and oppression in their lives, and how that structures us in relation to others.

Facilitator's Bio: Krista Hunt is a feminist teacher, writer, and community activist living in Toronto. She teaches women and gender studies at the University of Toronto. Her praxis revolves around feminist popular education and she is always looking for opportunities to get out of the ivory tower and into the community. Currently, her activism involves challenging privilege in her gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood. As a white, female homeowner, this work forces her to continually question the relationship
between identity and politics, and the ways street-involved women and their allies can resist the violence of gentrification.

TUESDAY evenings in JUNE
June 3, 10, 17 and 24, from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required.
**Please call to register.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants.
Partially wheelchair accessible. Limited sliding scale spots available.
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