Intersectionality

Question 1

face of athlete activism

Answer 1

women’s sports doesnt get coverage so people don’t know
* WNBA fining them for wearing black lives matter shirts during warmup

• when kaepernick started to kneel, he became the face everything because things are more legible when they are from a man and more so from a male football player

Question 2

intersectionality

Answer 2

avoids essentializing singular identities

• recognize that we are all marked by race, gender, sexuality, ability, age, class, nationality
• more than just loooking at the sum of racism and sexism
• highlights privilege and oppression as they manifest through structural power relations
• allows for double discrimination

Question 4

WNBA: say her name campaign

Answer 4

most players are Black

• sports person of the year is chosen as a white player even though the whole premise of their team was Black lives matter

Question 5

intersectionality helps us think about context

Answer 5

• we all live intersectional lives but the lens of intersectionality helps us thinking more specifically about which people in which contexts
• which intersection of identity is most salient in this situation?
• challenges general principles of science that seek generalizability

Question 6

Covid and intersectionality

Answer 6

Covid affected minorities more but why?
* most informal types of labour worked by minorities
* these jobs have the least benefits and hourly pay
* white people are more privileged to work fancier jobs and to work from home
* less savings = less to fallback on when something happens

Question 7

what is privilege

Answer 7

fluid and contextual
* not having an accent
* having a Canadian passport
* mostly out of our control

goal should be to expand privilege for as many as possible

intersectionality makes both privilege and oppression apparent

Question 9

mysogynoir

Answer 9

coined by Moya Bailey to address the specific violence of representational imagery depicting Black women

• intersection of anti-Black racism + sexism/misogyny
• challenges the universal representation of “womanhood” as presented by white feminism

Examples: Serena Williams, Caster Semenya

Question 10

weaponization of Intersectionality

Answer 10

flips the hierarchy so that white men become the “victims” of inequality

Question 11

gender-based violence

Answer 11

the use and abuse of control over another person and is perpatrated against someone based on their gender expression, gender identity or perceived gender

sexual violence always has gendered aspect but not all gender based violence is sexual

Question 12

sexual violence and Sports

Answer 12

54% of NCAA athletes and recreational athletes admit to sexually coercive behaviours vs 38% student body

• 1/3 of sexual assaults on NCAA college campuses perpatrated by athletes
• 74% of college athletes have experienced hazing

Question 13

Larry Nasser

Answer 13

USA gymnastics was warned about Larry Nasser for years

more than 150 athletes came forward with impact statements

charged with the assult of 265 young women/girls

Question 14

Post Secondary Institutions and Sexual Violence

Answer 14

2019: 71% of students witnessed or experienced unwanted sexualized behaviours in a postsecondary setting

2014: 42% of all self-reported incidents of sexual assault were reported by students, 90% of which were reported by women

80% of sexual assaults in a post-secondary setting were committed by someone known to the survivor

Question 15

consent

Answer 15

FRIES
* Freely given
* reversible
* informed
* enthusiastic
* specific

Question 16

social ecological model

Answer 16

this model considers the complex interplay between individual, relationship, community, and societal factors

allows us to understand the range of factors that put people at risk for violence or protect them from experiencing or perpetuating violence

factors at one level influence the next:
* individual, interpersonal relationship, community, societal