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Understanding white privilege: 20 everyday examples

"Here, we share 20 of McIntosh's examples of white privilege based on daily experiences that we often take for granted, in the hope it offers a better understanding of this complex subject. Let us learn from this moment and to be less oblivious to unearned racial advantages.

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Mary Beard: Women in Power

From Medusa to Merkel, Mary Beard considers the extent to which the exclusion of women from power is culturally embedded, and how idioms from ancient Greece are still used to normalise gendered violence.

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The Power of Speaking Polari

"There was no such thing as a safe space in 1950s Britain, but Polari helped to create a kind of symbolic safe space for gay people by allowing them to talk in ways which otherwise would have revealed their sexuality."

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A Brief History of Modern Ballroom Culture

They use balls to express these restrictive categories and to reveal their abuse as transgender, gay, and minority groups. Houses provide a space for queer youth to feel supported. The balls resist these norms by gender-bending through both the outfits and the mannerisms of the queens and kings.

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Polari Short Documentary clip from BBC

The gay scene in the 50s found expression in the TV series Round the Horn. This short video shares elders speaking Polari, sharing stories, and offering background.

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Trailer: Paris is Burning

The 80s seen through the eyes of NYC’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene, an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies, to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty.

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