How People Describe Themselves

Learning Goals: 

1. You can invite others to share their pronouns, but some people might prefer to not share their pronouns and you can just refer to them using their name.
2. You can’t necessarily guess a person’s pronouns by looking at them.
3. In the USA, racial and ethnic categories have changed over time.
4. Scientists have not found a race chromosome in our DNA.
5. Racial categories oversimplify people’s identities.
6. The term “Women of Color” was originally designed as a way to build a coalition among women who face racism.
7. Person-first language places the person before their disability (e.g. person with a disability). 
8. Identity-first language places the disability before the person (e.g., disabled person). 
9. People vary in whether they prefer person-first or identity-first language.

There are five videos to watch this week. These videos help us learn about how people describe themselves and how the US describes people and is based upon resources from www.ncwit.org/intersectionality-videos Links to an external site.