IDS 400 ( week 2 )

For your response posts, address the following:

1. What insight do you appreciate in your peer's discussion of bias and/or intersectionality?

2. What contribution can you make to your peer's discussion regarding bias and/or

intersectionality?

Remember, this assignment is graded on the quality of your initial post and at least two response

posts to your classmates. The intention of this discussion is to reflect on the content within this

module. You are not expected to write a research paper. However, if you refer to any sources, be

sure to include an attribution (or citation) to the resource.

To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric.

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Nolan Pegues

Hello everyone; we made it to week two, and these weeks are going fast. This week's

discussion explores bias and its influence on my thoughts about diversity. I believe bias

determines how we see something or judge someone or something. That bias makes us classify

diversity differently and determine if we associate with a thing or person. Thus, we can quickly

judge how we look at people and label things from how we see them in the media or how we

were raised without even conversing. And intersectionality is a combination of how we are

connected to different groups, cultures, organizations, and classifieds that may influence how we

are seen or how we think and view things, which also influences us to have other reasons to be or

classify. This week gave me much information on how easy it is for someone to assume things

and how people can't control their thoughts. I deal with people's judgment of how my style of

dressing, my job, and my marriage. Being in an interracial marriage, I have seen firsthand how

people judge my family, which isn't always negative.

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Gloria Vasquez

Biased views are curated by the different hats a person wears within a society. Someone’s stance

on social issues is often influenced by their background and the effect it has on their own lives or

that of their friends and families. Kimberle Crenshaw speaks to how the intersectionality

between race and gender creates a space for “multiple levels of injustice” (TEDWomen, 2016).

The injustices happening to women of color are usually dismissed or not highlighted simply

because of their demographic. Personally, this makes me so angry because it’s something that

could happen to me and my loved ones. For example, women in Mexico disappear and are

murdered everyday, yet no one talks about it because they’re women and often receive victim

blame. People say things like “they were probably asking for it” or “they were in the wrong place

at the wrong time,” when in reality they were simply trying to get back home after working long

hours at a factory or they were young girls walking home from school. These cases don’t get the

attention they deserve because they are women.

I think the awareness and education of intersectionality is important and key in our society.

Although my personal experience as a hispanic woman has shaped my views and probably bias, I

am open to learning about other’s views and perspectives. Implicit bias is something we don’t

know we have, but can alter how we operate subconsciously. I deeply agree with Dushaw

Hockett that as people we form an idea or association of someone based on their race, gender,

sexual orientation, social and economic background, dictation, education and so on, creating a

bias opinion or action (TEDx MidAtlantic, n.d.). This made me think about how my initial

thoughts and impressions of people can affect whether or not I decide to associate with them.

While I am not directly causing any harm to the individual, I have made the choice to avoid them

because I do not want to be associated with them or their values.

Crenshaw, K. (2016). The urgency of intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of

intersectionality | TED Talk. Retrieved March 8, 2023, from

https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en

YouTube. (2021, November 9). We all have implicit biases. so what can we do about it?

Retrieved March 8, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APGz5BeCinE