These slides were part of the "A demonstration of 5 scaffolded activities for engaging with audiences concerning intersectionality" presentation at the SIETAR 2022 National Conference in Omaha, NE.

This is a transcript of the following podcast: 

Antolini, T. & Gross, R. (Hosts). (2015, September 10). Coming out meatless. In Gravy (No. 21) [Audio podcast episode]. Southern Foodways Alliance. https://www.southernfoodways.org/gravy/coming-out-meatless-gravy-ep-21/

This activity enables participants to recognize the impact of various social identities on people's lives and how those identities intersect with compounding effects. Each participant will be given an identity card, and whenever a statement is read by the facilitator, they must respond to that statement based on their assigned identity. 

This activity asks participants to analyze two 20/20 specials, Children of the Mountains (2009) and Children of the Plains (2011), using Sisneros et al.’s (2008) Web of Oppression and the concept of intersectionality and consider how identity contributes to discrimination and disadvantage.

This activity asks participants to write an essay defining, applying, and critiquing the term intersectionality. 

To prepare for writing this essay, participants will read several documents. In the first part of their essay, participants will juxtapose these readings and do a bit of research to discuss the history of the term “intersectionality” and to demonstrate how the concept is applied in a current social justice movement. They will then read critiques so that, in the second part, they can discuss their own position on the possibilities and limits of the intersectionality for advancing the goals of a social movement they care about.

This activity brings together Sisneros et al.’s (2008) Web of Oppression, the concept of intersectionality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The lesson plan presents two options for discussing the relationship between intersectionality, the Web of Oppression, and issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic:

• In Option 1, participants are provided with a short reading about intersectionality and several articles on how COVID-19 has impacted different marginalized groups. Then, using the Web of Oppression, they will discuss how people with interconnected, marginalized identities face greater health and economic consequences as a result of the pandemic. This approach is primarily cognitive. 
• In Option 2, participants will do their own research on how different communities represented on the Web of Oppression have been affected by COVID-19. Then, after watching two videos, they will discuss the term intersectionality and how it connects to the Web of Oppression and issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This approach is more constructivist. 

This activity asks participants to consider the concept of intersectionality and apply it to a episode of the podcast Gravy. In this episode, the interviewee, Choya, discusses various aspects of his identity, including his vegetarianism, and how they affect his relationship with his family.