What is Queer? | Nuclear Families | A Vision for Liberation: The InterSEXion | Policy and Affinity Groups |
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What is unbridled greed AND hetero-sexism
What is the root cause of queer oppression?
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How is oppresses women, promotes wasteful consumerism, lack of outside communications and relations, and an imbalance of power.
How does the nuclear family serve as a building block for capitalism?
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What is gender oppression as the weapon that keeps 'them' in power.
Why is gay marriage considered a threat to human civilization?
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What is "informed by and be informative to any number of affinity groups . . . take in information, get resources and create infrastructure to support the groups, create an overall direction for achieving the goal of ending exploitation and oppression. (pg 393)."
What would the job of a "policy group" be?
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What is the belief that there are only two genders...and they mate.
What is Hetero-sexism?
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What is internalized shame and blame for not fitting the 'norm' and fighting amongst themselves.
What is the problem with society?
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What is, the reflection of all the oppressions and privileges in a surrounding geography.
What is a defining characteristic of the queer community?
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Geography, race, ethnicity, religion, class, gender, sexuality, age, campaign, cause, etc.
What are some different types of affinity groups?
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What is disproportionate shares of profits.
Why is Capitalism based on greed?
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"The illusion of scarcity and fear of our neighbors keeps us isolated from and fighting with each other. Divide and conquer is the rule. Meanwhile, those in power continue to reap the rewards. (pg 392)."
QUOTE!
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"Because we are an intersection based on gender identity and sexual identity, we can call ourselves the "interSEXion."
Why does this community call themselves the "interSEXion"?
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Figuring out most important issues, building a coalition, and figuring out a proactive strategy to address groups issues.
Goals for each affinity group for now could be.....
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What is norm, economic power, and violence.
What are the main tools used to make an oppressive system work?
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What is Socializing with each other, learning of their own oppressions, learning about their own privileges, end 'isms (racism, sexism, and classism), create a safety net, and pass their values of liberation onto the next generation"
How to build a sense of wholeness within the queer community? (List of 6 things)
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inner circle is made of the 'interSEXion'. Allies to the 'interSEXion' would build a second circle around the first.
The inner circle.
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