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What I Hear When You Say

What I Hear When You Say

What I Hear When You Say

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.

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When Did You Become Gay?
7:15
Examine the code words and phrases used to describe LGBTQA communities.
Gentrification
7:11
An author, a professor and a filmmaker discuss their unique takes on gentrification.
Code Words
6:38
Examine the current function and long history of American’s use of “code words”.
What Are You?
6:39
What’s the intent behind a simple question like, “What are you?”
I'm Not A Feminist
5:56
What does it mean to be a “feminist” today? Explore from three unique perspectives.
Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation
6:38
What does it mean to appreciate vs. appropriate culture? Explore unique perspectives.
Welfare
6:20
Explore the assumptions and misgivings of pejorative phrases like “Welfare queen.”
White Pride
7:06
A filmmaker, a comedian and a musician explore the use of the term “white pride.”
Model Minority
7:07
Explore the use of this term “Model Minority” to describe Asian American communities.
Race Card
6:19
A professor, a comedian, and an artist break down their interpretation “race card."
Oh, You’re Going to Pull the Race Card?
0:23
One woman reflects on her classroom encounter with a professor about “pulling the race car
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0:45
Artist Kiyun Kim explains that there are many subtle, unconscious and prejudicial comments
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