{"id":12171,"date":"2021-10-22T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=12171"},"modified":"2021-10-22T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:09:08","slug":"intersectionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/intersectionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersectionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Allenby&#8217;s school development plan is focused around the value of equity. In order to facilitate this, the DEI committee would like to highlight a concept \u2014\u00a0<strong>intersectionality <\/strong>\u2014 that very much supports and affirms the rich diversity of voices, backgrounds and histories that make up our amazing community.<\/p>\n<p>Words and images are powerful and we hope that the age-appropriate video below will further help our families have those important conversations about discrimination and oppression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Intersectionality?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intersectionality is a term coined in 1989 by an American professor, Dr. Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics \u201cintersect\u201d with one another, overlap and are linked.<\/p>\n<p>Intersectionality is the acknowledgement that\u00a0<strong>everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and oppression<\/strong>, and we\u00a0must consider everything that can marginalize people \u2013 gender, race, class, sexual orientation, physical ability, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the below to watch a kid-friendly video explaining the concept:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/allenbyparents.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de&amp;id=6ad09b89a9&amp;e=99a0b525a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/allenbyparents.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de%26id%3D6ad09b89a9%26e%3D99a0b525a6&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635012378696000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE5LR1t3fgeraCY3woNw-c4Qg_3WQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/CAKWUk4Ydg77Ez9TkAK4Iv4ixEbC-hx8Syrkx8kDuRgTsKcqY2fin1pReAI-oTtjpSeP42CRfWNsnHL_uvlwx21jI8Ue28beRpdS7HbEqx1gS3sh2rosrjAYPbgNyw_GLZ3QVT4IqPuxWQidwYctvpMD0QPuWw=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de\/images\/4026d2a1-6bcd-b087-6ad6-d076167a966c.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Allenby&#8217;s school development plan is focused around the value of equity. In order to facilitate this, the DEI committee would like to highlight a concept \u2014\u00a0intersectionality \u2014 that very much supports and affirms the rich diversity of voices, backgrounds and histories that make up our amazing community. Words and images are powerful and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[944],"class_list":["post-12171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-news","tag-intersectionality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12172,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions\/12172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}