Explore how words can both unite and divide based on our own perspective and experiences.
What I Hear When You Say is a video series that explores how words can both unite and divide us depending on our own perspective, experience, and interpretation. Each episode covers a different phrase or term that challenges what we think we know about race, class, gender, and identity.
What I Hear When You Say is a video series that explores how words can both unite and divide us depending on our own perspective, experience, and interpretation. Each episode covers a different phrase or term that challenges what we think we know about race, class, gender, and identity.
![What Are You?]()
What’s the intent behind a simple question like, “What are you?”
What Are You?
![Model Minority]()
Explore the use of this term “Model Minority” to describe Asian American communities.
Model Minority
![Code Words]()
Examine the current function and long history of American’s use of “code words”.
Code Words
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