WELCOME TO OUR SUMMER SERIES!
Our Summer Series aims to educate, inspire, and connect you on issues of intersectionality & feminism. During the summer, our newsletter will run every week on Fridays.
Community Events
All events are being held virtually. Join from the comfort of your bed!
Queer Activist Collective, Boston University’s LGBTQ+ student organization, will be inviting History UnErased TODAY at 6:00 p.m. EST to lead an interactive mini-lesson on the origin and evolution of the Pride march in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
The 17th Annual International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference will take place on September 23-25, 2020.
Course of the Week
A pile of books
Social Construction of Whiteness (SOCY330301)
with Professor Deborah Piatelli

Tuesdays & Thursdays from 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Devlin Hall 221
This course explores the social construction of race through the lens of whiteness.

By examining whiteness as both a race and historical system of privilege, students will gain a deeper understanding of the persistence of racism. Students will examine the distribution of privilege within American society at both the interpersonal and institutional levels; as well as consider how whiteness operates within the social constructs of class and gender. Through writing and in-class group discussion, students will examine their own identities and consider how consciously or unconsciously they are affected by these processes, as well as consider strategies for challenging racism.
Independent Learning
This week, read up on structural racism and mass incarceration.
In 13th, available on Netflix, filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States.
Want to know what LGBTQ+ life is like at San Quentin State Prison? Listen to Ear Hustle episode Down Low .
Go beyond the stats and take a deeper look at racial disparities in the prison system with the Sentencing Project.
Today's feminist quote is from:
Book cover of "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race"
"After a lifetime of embodying difference, I have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don't wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all the negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The same onus is not on me to change. Instead it's the world around me.”

- Reni Eddo-Lodge,
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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