‘We Are More Than “One Story”’
By Tarika Chari

Recently, my school has started a quarter-long course called Eagles Enhancing Lives (EEL). In this course, we learn about social justice and issues that have happened and are currently happening in the world. There are four mini units we go through, and we explore the concepts of Justice, Equality, Diversity, and Identity. In each unit we explore different social justice issues and learn about how each concept links to the issue. For example, in our Identity unit we learned about intersectionality, and how we’re more than ‘one story’, or one perspective and trait. We explored different parts of our identity, and watched a short film called Bibi to see how intersectionality affected implicit bias, and how bias affected stereotypes. In all the units we would watch videos about people describing their experiences in dealing with discrimination. We saw an African woman describe how she would purposely hunch herself in a train to seem smaller and harmless, due to the stereotype belief that black people are violent.

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