Pros And Cons Of Being A Social Justice Advocate

Moving on from unit one to unit two it was a big transition. It quickly went from concepts relating to “Who are you?” and “How do you identify yourself?” to then moving onto “How do your actions affect the world around you?” and learning about real life things like power and privilege. We learned about how unequally power and privilege are distributed in today’s society. We also discovered more about being a great peer educator and how to display social justice and how to develop and inclusive and welcoming community. The first concept that was introduced was an overview of power and privilege in today’s world and how I fit into the mix of things. In class we have been learning about the different amount of privilege distributed throughout the races, religions, sexual orientations, and genders. I noticed that there were certain types of people that get more privileges than others and that other groups of people have to work a lot harder for what they have in life. It was really eye opening and also pretty disappointing, I had to see that some people are given so many more advantages just because they are born in the United States or just because someone identifies as straight instead of

Being a social justice advocate means that you are advocating for all races, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and others (the list could go on forever) should be treated the same and that they should all be entitled to the same resources. One of the most important thing about being a social justice advocate is to not just be advocating for your rights, rather for equality of everyone. For me personally, being a white, straight, female a lot of the privileges are privileges that I have access to. But just because I personally have access to them doesn’t mean that shouldn’t still be advocating for everyone else because that’s what it means to be a social justice