Anti-Oppression
For the Intro to Critical Race workshop here are some interesting and thought provoking reads:
Aamer Rahmen on 'How Racist is Australia?'
Alison Booth on Ethnic Discrimination and Job Hunting
A poem by Kuhen Soma Devan, "Please Liberate Me"
Please liberate me
Save me from my strict Indian parents
Who love me and want what's best for me
Who saved and worked hard and sacrificed everything
To bring me to a country where I could have a better life
Liberate me from my traditional ethnic upbringing
I'm blind to see the ties of culture and family
Are shackles holding me back
Unbind my feet, tear off my headscarf
I need a Western hero to show me how to live
Free me from my patriarchal society
I'm an Indian man, I only know how to rape women
Get back in the kitchen, Indian woman! Know your place!
I don't want to be like this, I want to be civilised
Like white people
I'm a poor Indian boy whose parents demand I get straight As
And don't tell me they love me
We all raise our kids the same way, and we all look the same too
I abort my female children
And stone them
And stop them from going out
And hack at their genitals
And marry them off
And disown them for being gay
Teach me human rights
Take my sons and daughters away to give them a better life
Why do you hesitate, leftist? Is it political correctness
Or multiculturalism gone mad that stops you from condemning me?
Why are you afraid to say that Western culture is better?
Will you let me suffer when I need rescuing?
Brainwashed and broken, I don't know what's best for me
Teach me to be free
Liberate me
...
You can't free other people
Or tell them what's best for them
Paternalism is another kind of prison
I can only be freed by my own hand
The only kind of liberation worth having
Is the kind you make for yourself, choose for yourself, create for yourself
Anything else is a cage made by well-meaning people
I can liberate myself
But
who
will
liberate
me
from
you?
A Gentle yet Provocative Exploration of Culture
"The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation" by Jarune Uwujaren
Aamer Rahmen on 'How Racist is Australia?'
Alison Booth on Ethnic Discrimination and Job Hunting
A poem by Kuhen Soma Devan, "Please Liberate Me"
Please liberate me
Save me from my strict Indian parents
Who love me and want what's best for me
Who saved and worked hard and sacrificed everything
To bring me to a country where I could have a better life
Liberate me from my traditional ethnic upbringing
I'm blind to see the ties of culture and family
Are shackles holding me back
Unbind my feet, tear off my headscarf
I need a Western hero to show me how to live
Free me from my patriarchal society
I'm an Indian man, I only know how to rape women
Get back in the kitchen, Indian woman! Know your place!
I don't want to be like this, I want to be civilised
Like white people
I'm a poor Indian boy whose parents demand I get straight As
And don't tell me they love me
We all raise our kids the same way, and we all look the same too
I abort my female children
And stone them
And stop them from going out
And hack at their genitals
And marry them off
And disown them for being gay
Teach me human rights
Take my sons and daughters away to give them a better life
Why do you hesitate, leftist? Is it political correctness
Or multiculturalism gone mad that stops you from condemning me?
Why are you afraid to say that Western culture is better?
Will you let me suffer when I need rescuing?
Brainwashed and broken, I don't know what's best for me
Teach me to be free
Liberate me
...
You can't free other people
Or tell them what's best for them
Paternalism is another kind of prison
I can only be freed by my own hand
The only kind of liberation worth having
Is the kind you make for yourself, choose for yourself, create for yourself
Anything else is a cage made by well-meaning people
I can liberate myself
But
who
will
liberate
me
from
you?
A Gentle yet Provocative Exploration of Culture
"The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation" by Jarune Uwujaren