(Posted 2022 April)
Do you like scavenger hunts? Do you want to test your knowledge? Do you want a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card by deciphering clues? Well, here’s your chance.
To synthesize understanding of themes presented in the 2021 (January-December) editions of “Cultivating Seeds of Equity and Justice,” we have assembled below nine fun questions to test your knowledge. Good luck!
*Participation in the drawing is limited to Fairfax County Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (DSVS) volunteers only.
- An equitable society is one in which racial and social disparities do not exist. What is the name of the framework used to advance equity in Fairfax County?
- _____ can be defined as harmful acts directed at an individual or group based on actual or perceived biological sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, and/or lack of adherence to varying socially constructed norms around masculinity and femininity (gender-based violence).
- Gender-based violence is rooted in which three structural areas?
- The focus and emphasis of Fairfax County, including Domestic and Sexual Violence Services, is on which two forms of racism?
- List one way Dan Griffith challenges people to critically examine their perceptions about men.
- What is the difference between an implicit bias and an explicit bias?
- What is a racial microaggression and when was the term first used?
- This theory recognizes systemic racism as societally embedded and endemic to our nation’s history.
- There’s a Safe Zone sign on the window of the kiosk. I await my turn in line and then advance when the clerk calls, “Next.” I was assigned male at birth. I am at my finest when my wig is perfectly pinned, my makeup is flawless, and my long-term boyfriend stands proudly by my side. I politely show my ID to be checked in when the clerk says, “We don’t serve your kind.” In this situation, I may have experienced this form of bias.
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