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Yopp Academy

An educational resource on social justice topics, sorted by level of difficulty.

If you're new to social justice, start with the 100 and 200 level posts, and work your way up-- or, dive right in and do some googling along the way. 

February 1, 2018

CN: sexual assault, racism, chattel slavery, ableism, trans-antagonism, mention of suicide and murder rate statistics. 

When discussing oppressed and privileged groups, you’ll frequently hear me talk about who in the interaction has the most power. But why is identifying the power in an interaction so important and what do I mean when I say a group has power?

For a person or a group to have power refers to the ability to make certain choices that affect you individually or other people. The mo...

December 3, 2017



April 20, 2017

CN: discussion of consequences of oppression

Let’s talk about “privilege.” It’s a big concept and a word that’s used so frequently, to many people it’s meaningless. It’s often misinterpreted to mean “out of touch,” “your life is perfect,” or sometimes, just “you suck.”

But it actually means none of those things.

Privilege is the ability to receive social, financial, and institutional benefits based on a trait you have that society considers desireable. But unlike benefits received in response...

March 9, 2017

CN: Mention of serious effects of oppression, specific to race, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical and mental ability, class and religion. 

There are a number of traits for which people are oppressed, and these traits fall into a number of categories. A crucial idea in understanding the premise of social justice is that for each category, there is a group that our society currently considers "default," "normal," or "neutral" and anyone outside of that group is the “variant.”...

March 8, 2017

CN: mental illness, PTSD

At the beginning of most of my posts, I'll be using a note that starts "CN" followed by a list of certain topics and themes. CN stands for Content Note. Here I'm going to talk about what content notes or content warnings are, why I use them, and why I use them as opposed to trigger warnings. 

Trigger Warnings 

You've probably heard of trigger warnings, which have gained a lot of media attention in the past few years particularly in colleges and in online social justic...

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