February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
7h 54m
English
SCOTT FERRY
Lead Instructional Designer
The Winters Group, Inc.
(he/him/his)
Allyship is not self-defined—our work and our efforts must be recognized by the people we seek to ally ourselves with.
—LAYLA SAAD
Allyship is a fraught term. For years in the social justice and activist spaces, ally was a prime signifier of someone from a dominant group who “gets it.” Calling oneself an ally was convenient shorthand for saying, in effect, “I recognize that I have power and privileges that others do not, and this status quo should not stand.” It was, for all intents and purposes, a meaningful show of solidarity at a time when recognition of harmful and oppressive systems and practices was terribly uncommon among ...
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