Gender 200 - Part 2

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Welcome back, my friends! After a short hiatus due to catching COVID-19 and more technical difficulties, I'm back and ready to tackle another topic. I think we can all agree that sometimes it's hard to speak up for ourselves, take center stage of a conversation with confidence, or feel that we are worthy of "taking up space" in general, especially when we are not feeling our best. But what exactly does this mean? Tune in to find out and hear a vulnerable conversation on how I have dealt with this in my own life 👀 Tag me on IG with a screenshot if you loved this episode to share the Resilient squad love and leave a rating & review in the Apple podcast app! To stay updated on new episodes, don't forget to subscribe or follow in your favorite podcasting app. Till next time, squad 💓Podcast IG: @resilientyousquadPodcast Support Link ♡  All my socials 💛Presets: annieblade.comInstagram: @annieblade_ Youtube: Annie BladeDepop: Bottom Dollar ClosetTik Tok: @annieblade_

What does it look like taking up space in a colored and gendered world? Join me and my guests as we make sense of this topic.

This week on the show Shaunna and Lisa discuss what it means to take up (too much) space. This is particularly important for folks with privileged identities to think about as they can, and often do, take up too much of it in places they don’t belong. This conversation comes in the wake of a George Washington University white associate professor’s disclosure in a Medium article she portrayed herself as an Afro-Caribbean woman (and North African, and Afro-Latinx, among others) for her entire career. By assuming this false identity, she took up space in a place where she should not have, and took away from the experiences of those who actually do belong in the black community. It was an act of white violence and betrayal. Shaunna and Lisa discuss the violence of her actions and the pain that remains. Although they may be less overt, we can face similar situations in our friend groups or triathlon clubs where a person with a privileged social identity is causing harm. In these situations, it is important we center the feelings and perspectives of those who have been hurt by these actions and collectively turn our backs to the people who are taking up too much space. In doing so, we can stand for the collective values of a group that does not tolerate oppression or violence, and work to keep those causing harm from dominating the narrative. Read more about the reaction to this deception at: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-layered-deceptions-of-jessica-krug-the-black-studies-professor-who-hid-that-she-is-white https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/our-statement-jessica-krug?fbclid=IwAR0FHdCrRdSdoNW79ZLMlerGa0h-icb7_fL35eRNw9iggxRuo1mn6WOEYi4