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  • 22.06.2022
    video

    SO YOU CAN’T EVEN TELL A JOKE ANYMORE?

    PAH Activists' Academy Webinar

    Microaggressions, jokes, words implying otherness – discrimination in everyday life can take on seemingly harmless forms. What is humor for and does it have to be black? Is it there to relieve tension or to deal with it? How long does it take society to accept changes in language? How to make others more sensitive in their everyday language use? Who carries out this process and how? What is happening with the Polish language today? What kind of developments and fashions is it currently undergoing?

    Na obrazku widać twarz kobiety na szarym tle, nachodzi na nią niebieski prostokąt z tekstem "Zapisz się. To już nawet żartować nie można? Spotkanie z Margaret Amaką Ohią-Nowak. Online". W prawym dolnym rogu jest logotyp Akademia Aktywistek i Aktywistów PAH

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  • 10.03.2022
    video

    “I HATE!” Do collective fear and ignorance cause hate?

    PAH Activists' Academy Webinar

    For whom life in Poland is easier and for whom it is harder? What is the cause of hatred and what are its cultural, historical and economic determinants? What function can hate play in society, and what if society expects from us something that we fear?


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  • 26.10.2021
    video

    „The Danger of a Single Story”

    TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    How much influence have the stories we’ve been told had on us? How does a representation of the world that overlooks its multifaceted complexity risk luring us into the trap of rigid thought patterns?


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  • 26.10.2021
    video

    “How Many Races Are There and Which Do You Belong To?”

    Kasia Gandor’s video talk on race theory

    Issues pertaining to race are often raised in public discourse, with race used by some to perpetuate divisions within society. Throughout history, racial animus has been the driving force behind campaigns to disparage and harm groups of people denigrated as inferior. It is a toxic phenomenon incited by hate speech and based on the bisection of society into two groups: us versus them. Kasia Gandor exposes racialism’s lack of scientific basis.


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