Gender, Sexuality and Colonialism
Challenge and question dominant perspectives on gender and sexuality, learn about their intersections with race, and discover the socio-historical factors that still influence today's mindsets.
Current norms around gender identity and expression, as well as sexualities have a specific cultural origin. To deconstruct our own perspective and understand how society responds to gender and the LGBTQI+ community, we need to understand colonialism and the social structure as well as the psychological processes it has put in place in relation to gender, sexuality and their intersections with racialisation.
This course aims to provide you with enough material and reflective exercises to challenge and question dominant perspectives on gender and sexuality, as well as to examine the socio-historical factors that still influence today's mindsets.
The course is suitable for all professionals, staff, managers and others with an interest in psychology, social justice, LGBTQ people, AND anti-racism.
Grasp basic definitions of sex, gender, and sexuality
Understand the impact of inequality from an intersectional lens
Learn how colonialism and racism are connected to present-day gender and sexual oppression around the world
Introduction & Reflective Skills
Why does this matter?
Reflections on Gender and Sexual Norms
Key concepts – beyond the binary
Impact: Intersectionality & Injustice
Reflection point
The Coloniality of Gender
Controlling sexuality, controlling bodies
Sex, Abuse and Racialisation
Reflection point and going further