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Decoding You

Identity Definition & Exploration
 

   Learning opportunity

  • Marginalized Group: social identity groups that are disenfranchised and discriminated against 

  • Privileged Group: social identity groups that hold unearned privileged in society

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Sylvia Duckworth’s “wheel of power/privilege” is another visual representation of how power, privilege, and social identities intersect. The graphic below uses the imagery of a wheel, sectioned off by the following social identities and respective categories:

  • Citizenship: citizen, documented, undocumented

  • Skin colour: white, different shades, dark

  • Formal education: post-secondary, high school, elementary

  • Ability: able-bodied, some disability, significant disability

  • Sexuality: heterosexual; gay men; lesbian, bi, pan, asexual

  • Neurodiversity: neurotypical, neuroatypical, significant neurodivergence

  • Mental health: robust, mostly stable, vulnerable

  • Body size: slim, average, large

  • Housing: owns property, sheltered/renting, homeless

  • Wealth: rich, middle class, poor

  • Language: English, Learned English, non-English monolingual

  • Gender: cisgender man; cisgender woman; trans, intersex, nonbinary

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