Are you gatekeeping white supremacy and patriarchy without even realizing it? In this episode, Danielle Slaughter identifies three ways in which most people unintentionally serve as gatekeepers. Danielle is a doctoral student (on hiatus) in the Rhetoric and Composition program at Georgia State University, the founder of Mamademics, a blog sharing Danielle’s experiences navigating motherhood and academia, and the creator of Raising an Advocate, a social justice advocacy resource website. We discuss harmful impulses to access power, privilege, and resources, which in turn uphold systems of oppression.

Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc030

Topics Covered:

• Reasons Danielle started her blog, Mamademics, and how her colleagues in academia received it
• How protecting your child’s innocence gives white supremacists a head start
• When and how to talk to children about race and racism
• Resources for teaching and learning about diversity, race, and racism
• Identifying how we gatekeep for white supremacy and patriarchy and how we can stop doing so
• Defining and defying respectability politics
• Defining tone policing

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