Note for facilitators, educators, or anyone who wishes to try using this tool
with their learning community or group spaces to activate inner processes of transformation, critical thinking, and reflection within your learning communities on the experiences of gender oppression and resistance presented in the podcast This Must Be The Place.*
Throughout these activities, participants are invited to engage—through empathy, simulation, exchange, and rights-based critical thinking practices—with gender discrimination and oppression as a systemic issue.
Systemic in the sense that these are everyday manifestations of a social system of power that reproduces itself across all our spaces and services, and still normalizes the marginalization of people, bodies, and subjectivities that do not conform to the normative model of the human being in our patriarchal, capitalist, white supremacist, and ableist society: the white, cisgender, male, neurotypical subject from the Global North.
The activities aim to help participants recognize the importance of assuming responsibility as active citizens to transform and question the normalized oppressions within this system—starting with themselves and their communities.
As feminist activist Gloria Steinem said:
“The internal and the external changes are part of one complete circle.”