Sentences with phrase «challenging sexism»

The Guerrilla Girls have been exposing and challenging sexism and racism in the visual arts, politics and culture for over three decades.

For over three decades the Guerrilla Girls have been exposing and challenging sexism and racism in the visual arts, politics and culture at large, and now for the first time the anonymous feminist activist group revisit their 1986 campaign «It's Even Worse in Europe».

Those of you who are building our young teachers» networks, our black teachers» networks, our disabled teachers» networks, our trans teachers» group, our work on challenging sexism, and all of you who are doing the unsung work of caseworkers and health and safety reps.

This shouldn't have to be resolved by individual teachers — we need everyone in education to work together to collectively challenge sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.»

When we challenge sexism and disrupt patriarchy, everyone benefits — including boys and men.

Not exact matches

We're more aware of sexism when it shows its face as well, and more willing to take action to challenge it.

The study's bottom line seems to be that, sure, there is still plenty of sexism when it comes to women's behavior at the negotiating table, but if you're more interested at any given time in getting a good deal than challenging stereotypes, then flirting may be the way to go.

Sexism in the workplace, equal pay issues, and a heavy saturation of men in an office — especially if there's a lingering Old Boy's Club mentality — can make it a challenge for a woman to achieve her maximum potential.

It is often challenging to fully report on stories of sexual harassment or sexism in evangelical communities because records are sealed and because individual allegations are dismissed by people in power, Ingersoll says.

Overcoming of sexism or anti-Judaism requires that consciousness be raised through a challenge from a quite different perspective.

They can be challenged to work in projects to improve their community through political and social action, to help eradicate sexism, racism, ageism (discrimination against aging persons), and poverty, all of which damage marriages and families.

Christocentrism could no longer cope with the challenge of religious pluralism; universalism did not grasp the depth of alienation among the poor and the marginalized; salvation history did not do justice to the plural histories of the world's many cultures and nations; the unity of the Church in Christ offered no power or guidance in overcoming sexism, racism and human exploitation.

The LSE men's rugby team was notably dissolved for a year due to the student unions commitment to challenge «cultures that allow misogyny, sexism and homophobia to exist» after they pulled a number of high - profile pranks apparently indicative of «lad culture».

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

Zoom out to promote understanding on the systems level: Explore whether there are larger systemic forces that underlie the challenges students have touched on (such as racism, sexism, or lack of access to resources).

According to her, the major concern in the training of arts teachers is to introduce them to challenging work in the arts on issues of racism, sexism, homophobia, disability, and other identity - based areas in which injustice still happens.

The NUT recognises that we still have a long way to go to achieve equality for women and women teachers — whether that be through tackling the gender pay gap in schools or challenging the routine sexism that affects women teachers in the classroom and many young women students and girls too.

Choose: Snakes or Ladders follows Mitty who comes up against sexism and classism and must challenge others» prejudices while fighting her inner demons.

So I challenge you to really help half of your audience (if indeed 1/2 are actually male) by addressing the sexism involved in making and selling art.

«Not monkeying around: Guerrilla Girls challenge art sexism.»

Some even changed their names, like Michael West, in an effort to combat the era's sexism, or incorporated into their work tacit challenges to the status quo, as Elaine de Kooning did in her «Faceless Men» series.

It's not hard to miss, and that's why it's brilliant: it's both direct and democratic, stealing the visual identity of advertising and fear - mongering tabloids to spread messages that question systems of power, that challenge corruption, sexism and consumerism.

In challenging Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, sexism and other art world praxes, Benglis has carved out idiosyncratic sculptural idioms whose breadth others can only emulate.

«Take It or Leave It,» Ellegood explains, aims to challenge power structures and social - cultural institutions — be it politics, media, racism, sexism or art museums themselves — through artists who borrow and re-contextualize images, text and other elements from pop culture and fine art, among other places, to make a conceptual point.

JC: I don't think I realized how radical my program was; I was just so angry at the rampant sexism of the art world that I felt impelled to try and challenge it in some way.

For exactly these reasons the challenge of silence and the demand for visibility has long been a key component of social right campaigns - against racism, sexism, child abuse and campaigns for gay rights and marriage.

The program discussed the challenges women face with negotiation, equal pay, and sexism and how men can be allies.

The Retention of Women in Private Practice: The Challenge is Intersectional While the CLA's report on the retention of women illustrates the various ways female lawyers are impacted by sexism, it is relatively silent on other forms of systemic discrimination female lawyers experience, particularly racism experienced by women of colour and Indigenous women.

Nowadays we are encouraged to not just stop turning a blind eye to such things as sexism, racism and any other form of abuse, but to actually challenge it.

Just as good men need to speak out against sexist jokes, remarks that objectify women and to challenge male supremacists who seek to use the children in order to maintain what they believe is their male privilege to control women, good mental health professionals also must speak out against the minority in their profession who routinely hurt women and children whether out of greed, sexism or ignorance.