Tag: audacityinblack

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Absolutely true. They also create an illusion of safety. A ‘this group of people won’t harm you’ vs ‘this group will’ which simply isn’t true.   Which doesn’t mean you can never practice exclusion in safe spaces. Good examples are organising a trans-only sauna where people can get naked without cis people staring, or doing healing work … Continue reading I think I do see your point. Exclusionary safe spaces can also create pressure within them to conform to some set of expectations for your identity. In that way, they set up a hierarchy based on who is most vs. least able to conform.

Yes and no. I think the main mistake people make with safe spaces are: Believing that there is such a thing as a safe space when in fact there are only safer spaces.  Believing that what makes a space safer is removing demographic groups from it.  In reality, removing all men from a women’s safe space … Continue reading I feel like social justice movements at large should make more of an effort to distinguish safe spaces from activism and education spaces. They serve different purposes, have different needs, and need different rules. People may be confusing and oversimplifying them.