LGBTQ and Two Spirit Teaching

Question 1

Prejudice

Answer 1

Refers to prejudgementm or forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case.

Question 2

Discrimination

Answer 2

Refers to the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or category.

Question 3

Colonialism

Answer 3

Refers to both the formal and informal methods that maintain the subjugation, or exploitation of indigenous peoples, lands, and resources.

Question 4

Oppression

Answer 4

Refers to the excersize of authority or power in a burdonsome, cruel, or unjust manner.

Question 5

Ally

Answer 5

Refers to a person who is a member of the dominant group, who works to end oppression in his or her own personal and professional life by supporting and advocating with the oppressed population.

Question 6

Being in Solidarity

Answer 6

Comparing factors that foster or impede an individual’s capacity to move from a bystander to a moral actor.

Question 7

Theoretical framework for opprression, bystanders, and allies was developed by ___.

Answer 7

Bauman in 2003.

Question 8

What does Bauman’s Theory state?

Answer 8

Individuals who cause harm to others are able to do what they do because people stand by. They depend on bystanders. The reason we stand by is denial; we try to rationalize inaction.

Question 9

Denial is a _ stage process.

Answer 9

2.

Question 10

Who came up with the Denial Theory?

Answer 10

Cohen in 2011.

Question 11

Who came up with the Cognitive Dissonance Theory?

Answer 11

Festinger in 1957.

Question 12

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Answer 12

Two contrasting beliefs at once, can stop you from taking action.

Question 13

Who came up with the Intersectionality Theory?

Answer 13

Crenshaw in 1991.

Question 14

Intersectionality Theorry

Answer 14

Deals with identities and social groups, inequalities.

Question 15

Foucaldian Theory

Answer 15

Developed in 1975, dominant discourse becomes our common belief system. If the alternate discourse is circulated enough in society, the alternate discourse can become a part of our way of thinking.

Question 16

Two Spirit Teaching

Answer 16

A healthy society is a circle- in Cree, there are no words for male and female. Being in solidarity with seemingly similar peoples.

Question 17

Critical Mass

Answer 17

Tipping point of when alternate discourse becomes part of our ways of thinking.

Question 18

We are infliuenced by:

Answer 18

Context/location, identitiies, dominant discourse, and alternate truths.

Question 19

Intersecting of identities create spaces of ___ and ___, as well as spaces of ___ and ___.

Answer 19

Domination and privilege, subjugation and vulnerability.

Question 20

Example of Bauman’s Fostering Factors

Answer 20

Indigenous space + privelege/power = moral actor.

Question 21

Example of Bauman’s Impeding Factors

Answer 21

LGBTQ space + vulnerability/sunjugation = bystander.

Question 22

Cognitive dissonance does not account for when occupying spaces of ___, and only works for the role of allies who occupy spaces of ___.

Answer 22

Subjugation, privelege.

Question 23

Human rights are guaranteed by:

Answer 23

International Declaration of Human and Indigenous Rights.

Question 24

Hiearchies exist with:

Answer 24

Race, gender, sexuality, social class, religion, intelligence.

Question 25

Hierachies can be used to justfy:

Answer 25

Colonialism, eugenics, slave trade, Holocaust, and stop and frisk.

Question 26

Research illustrates that there are ___, not ___.

Answer 26

Spectrums, not binaries.