Intersectionality & Audre Lorde
Social institutions:
Social institutions are set up by recognizing the ways people behave and categorizing their membership based on its belief of the member's common practices.
Unfortunately, these differences create social hierarchies, and with hierarchies come privileges, inequalities and oppression.
Audre Lorde's There is No Hierarchy of Oppression discusses how systems of inequality support privileges and limitations to benefit certain groups that belong to specific locations, classes and genders. Lorde's reading attempts to bridge the gap between the freedom from intolerance and discrimination.
She writes about these intolerances because she experiences them herself; Lorde belongs to a certain criteria in her personal life that do not mix well with society.
An aspect of one's self can profit from an aspect of another one's oppressed aspect, this diminishes the first soul, and denies the other. Everyone seeks the right to a peaceful existence, but an attack towards one part of someone may be equal to them fully as a whole. "I simply do not believe that one aspect of my self can possibly profit from the oppression of any other part of my body."
Intersectionality:
Intersectionality is the study of a sub-culture within the subculture, a minority within the minority. The concept has been a helpful tool towards Feminist analysis by helping tie together issues that had not been tied together previously (Examples: race, sexuality, religious beliefs, political values, class).
Intersectionality is a part of social institutions, and social institutions can be linked with the bigger picture: Social Construction. Social Construction is the practices that are culturally invented, not biologically existent. In today's society, heterosexuality and patriarchy are the dominant cultural themes.
Technology, media, music, traditions, religion and norms play large roles in socially constructing today's binary forms of life.
Social construction brings groups together because it creates a sense of belonging, respect and mutual values. But it can also set people apart because it creates sexism, racism, prejudice and discrimination. It sets them apart because of difference.
Difference:
Difference is socially constructed in multiple ways, one discussed here is the idea of privilege. Acquiring privilege means acquiring dominance. The dominant group has the power to separate "them" from "us," white privilege and class privilege are examples of this.
To conclude, Privileges are good to have in society, but usually they create more harm than good to those at its disadvantage. Oppressors are oppressed, so use your privileges for the better development of society because at the end of the day, we are all rocking on the same ship. We just have different rooms.
Social institutions are set up by recognizing the ways people behave and categorizing their membership based on its belief of the member's common practices.
Unfortunately, these differences create social hierarchies, and with hierarchies come privileges, inequalities and oppression.
Audre Lorde's There is No Hierarchy of Oppression discusses how systems of inequality support privileges and limitations to benefit certain groups that belong to specific locations, classes and genders. Lorde's reading attempts to bridge the gap between the freedom from intolerance and discrimination.
She writes about these intolerances because she experiences them herself; Lorde belongs to a certain criteria in her personal life that do not mix well with society.
An aspect of one's self can profit from an aspect of another one's oppressed aspect, this diminishes the first soul, and denies the other. Everyone seeks the right to a peaceful existence, but an attack towards one part of someone may be equal to them fully as a whole. "I simply do not believe that one aspect of my self can possibly profit from the oppression of any other part of my body."
Intersectionality:
Intersectionality is the study of a sub-culture within the subculture, a minority within the minority. The concept has been a helpful tool towards Feminist analysis by helping tie together issues that had not been tied together previously (Examples: race, sexuality, religious beliefs, political values, class).
Intersectionality is a part of social institutions, and social institutions can be linked with the bigger picture: Social Construction. Social Construction is the practices that are culturally invented, not biologically existent. In today's society, heterosexuality and patriarchy are the dominant cultural themes.
Technology, media, music, traditions, religion and norms play large roles in socially constructing today's binary forms of life.
Social construction brings groups together because it creates a sense of belonging, respect and mutual values. But it can also set people apart because it creates sexism, racism, prejudice and discrimination. It sets them apart because of difference.
Difference:
Difference is socially constructed in multiple ways, one discussed here is the idea of privilege. Acquiring privilege means acquiring dominance. The dominant group has the power to separate "them" from "us," white privilege and class privilege are examples of this.
To conclude, Privileges are good to have in society, but usually they create more harm than good to those at its disadvantage. Oppressors are oppressed, so use your privileges for the better development of society because at the end of the day, we are all rocking on the same ship. We just have different rooms.
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