Privilege Arbitrage: Making Your Culture More Inclusive

My talk from PyDX 2016: 2016-10-02

Transcript

1. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Privilege Arbitrage Making Your Culture More Inclusive 1
2. Kojo Idrissa @Transition First, a word on “soft” talks… 2
3. Kojo Idrissa @Transition How do I help? 3
4. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Diverse Teams ==> Better Solutions 4
5. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Inclusive Culture ==> Diverse Teams 5
6. Kojo Idrissa @Transition ??? ==> Inclusive Culture 6
7. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Increasing Privilege Awareness 7
8. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Privilege Awareness ~~> Inclusive Culture 8
9. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Privilege Awareness ~~> Privilege Arbitrage 9
10. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Arbitrage? 10
11. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Privilege Arbitrage —> Inclusive Culture 11
12. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Privilege Awareness ~~> Privilege Arbitrage —> more Inclusive Culture 12
13. Kojo Idrissa @Transition The Origins of Privilege 13 {XYZ}ist {XYZ}ism Institutionalized {XYZ}ism
14. Kojo Idrissa @Transition The Local Example 14 http://bit.ly/oregon_black_laws
15. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Not Just Oregon 15 Californa—>US: Chinese Exclusion Act
16. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Not Just Race/Ethnicity 16 • Women’s Sufferage: 1920
17. Kojo Idrissa @Transition – @JustSlyRed “Privilege isn’t wealth or having it easy: it’s what you don’t have to deal with.” 17
18. Kojo Idrissa @Transition – @marlenac “Privilege is a spectrum and not a binary-- @nodebotanist at #npmCamp” 18
19. Kojo Idrissa @Transition – @RaeBeta “White people who've never had bad experiences w/ cops: your experiences are products of racism & privilege, not virtue. #BlackLivesMatter” 19
20. Kojo Idrissa @Transition The Point? • Institutionalized Bias is real • That bias creates privilege on multiple axes 20
21. Kojo Idrissa @Transition – @jaythenerdkid “one thing that makes privilege so hard to dismantle is that the privileged don't realise they have it. it's invisible from the inside.” 21
22. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Visualizing Privilege: Personal Privilege Profile 22
23. Kojo Idrissa @Transition “External” Axes • Gender Identity • Sexual Orientation • Maleness • Whiteness 23
24. Kojo Idrissa @Transition “Internal” Axes • Family: Edu. Background • 2.5 points for each college- educated parent or grandparent • Family: Wealth • Approximating “national median wealth percentile” 24
25. Kojo Idrissa @Transition My Privilege Profile Start With Introspection 25
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27. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Other Privilege Profiles Comparative visualization 27
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32. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Privilege Arbitrage Putting your awareness to work 32
33. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Be an ACTIVE ally for people with different privilege profiles 33
34. Kojo Idrissa @Transition General Guidelines 34
35. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Introspect 35
36. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Listen and Learn 36
37. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Speak and Act 37
38. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Specific Tactics & Situations 38
39. Kojo Idrissa @Transition 39 Endure: A Blade Over a Heart
40. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Have Faith 40
41. Kojo Idrissa @Transition Questions/Comments? • @Transition on Twitter • kojoidrissa.com 41