Courage to Care Conversations

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This ongoing series of live events on the third Friday of each month combines a social opportunity to strengthen connections within our volunteer family with an ongoing learning approach to engaging with the Courage to Care mission and messages. Join a diverse group of interesting people in conversation and feel uplifted, more informed and better equipped to speak on our issues.

All volunteers are welcome! You can join an occasional Conversation or become a regular – there’s no pressure at this casual and enjoyable morning of discussion. Refreshments will be avalable.

COMING UP

Friday 20 October
Face the challenge: take the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory quiz

“Women — you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them.”
This male quip captures something essential about the face of sexism: an ambivalence, or doubled-edged way of thinking, in which women are sometimes treated with contempt and sometimes adored. How can adoration qualify as sexism? Take the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and explore the dual nature of prejudice toward women and afterward compare your level of sexism with the scores received by people from around the world. Click the link:  The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory

Some interesting stats about Courage to Care:
C2C Committee of Management has 11 members with 8 identifying as female and 3 male.
All 4 Subcommittee Chairs are female.
We currently have 63% Female volunteering, with a broad plan to increase Males to 40% from 37% over coming years.
C2C has a Code of Conduct that governs behaviour.

You’ll get the most out of the Conversation if you do some background reading or viewing in advance, but that is optional – you can join the discussion without preparation.

Read:   What is sexism?
36 Ways Women Still Aren’t Equal to Men
The Ramifications of the Judicial Reform for the Status of Women in IsraelWatch/Listen:   The Credibility Gap | TED talk
Children react to discrimination against women
What women want men to know about sexism | TED talk
The bechdel test as cultural barometer
Give us a twirl

Please RSVP to program.manager@couragetocare.org.au to help us keep you informed: if a Conversation is cancelled those who have registered will be notified.

• 17 November: DISABILITY AND DISCRIMINATION
  Watch/Listen:  Inspiration porn and the objectification of disability    Ableism in education    Disability and society explained         disability innovation podcasts from UNSW
  Read: Hard facts       Education rights for disabled children    Education failing people with a disability     Gatekeeping   Social barriers vs disability conditions   Mainstream vs special schools
  

Want to revisit previous Conversation topics?

• 22 September
  Navigating the stormy seas of Media, Power and Public Opinion
  Read:    Hunter Biden’s laptop     Brittany Higgin’s lawyer     Israel as a juristocracy      Echo chambers, bubbles and polarisation
  Watch/Listen:  Circular reporting       Telling big lies isn’t about persuasion
• 18 August: Hate and the problem of social media
  Reading:       What is hate speech?        Hate speech on social media       The virtual stages of hate
  Fanaticism, polarisation, anonymity and propaganda      amplifying dangerous lies
  Listening and viewing: hate speech in Australia       Social media platform capitalism (language warning)
• 21 July:   session cancelled.
• 16 June: “Race and how it played out in Black education in South Africa”
  Our Conversation date coincided with the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Uprising in South Africa, when students began the protest against the introduction of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in Black Schools. In commemoration of these events, 16 June is now named the Youth Day public holiday in South Africa.
  Read:  Summary of the Soweto Uprising   Essay: Racism in South Africa    Essay: Soweto uprising
  Watch/Listen: Perspective of Soweto residents    Brief biography of Nelson Mandela     Rise and fall of South Africa’s “apartness”
• 12 May: “Microaggressions are not a storm in a teacup”
  What are microaggressions? Do they cause real harm? How important is it to stand up against them?
  Reading:  What are microaggressions?      The indigenous experience     You’re the whitest Black person I know
  Listening and viewing:   Microaggressions in everyday life    A trip to the grocery store     Comments that sting   What kind of Asian are you?      Impact of microaggressions
• 21 April: “Is Freedom of Speech Golden?”
  Reading:    free speech vs ‘cancel culture‘  Banning Nazi salute does not solve the problem      Adelaide Writers Festival presents one-sided panel    The Conversation: Adelaide Writers Week calls to cancel      Nine.com.au: Israeli flags at footie games
  Listening and viewing:   Australians don’t have the right to free speech   Free speech for all – or for some?    The line between free speech and hate speech
• 17 March: “Indigenous Voice to Parliament”
  Background reading:        Reconciliation Australia        The case from the Heart       Why should we have it, and how would it work? 
  Indigenous voice should be opposed      Do we really need it?
  Relevant listening:  The major players in the Voice referendum (Guardian podcast)
• 17 February 2023: “Race and Racism” 
  Reading material:  White fragility     Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race      “Nice Racism”      Lessons for ‘Nice’ Racists    Critical Race Theory     Caught between black and blue    Race Ethnicity and the human experience   The differences within whiteness
  Video material:     Structural Racism explained     Excerpt from 1994 documentary “The Color of Fear”
• 16 December: “Who are you? Memory and Identity”
  Reading material:  Who are you?     Bi-directional nature of memory and self (Long article – you can skim or ignore)
  Video material: Is Identity our physical self or our memories?    Cultural memory and the relationship to the past     Memory reconstruction and emotional memories     Are all your memories real?    Memory malleability
• 18 November 2022: “Caste and social class in the country of the ‘fair go’ “
  Reference material: South Asian caste system being imported;    Diversity Council of Australia research;   Personal experiences and impact;    Social mobility has its down-side;   Social segregation in Australian schools;      Are Australians socially inclusive?   Don’t judge a girl by her postcode
• 21 October 2022: “Religious intolerance or conflict of interest”
  Reference material: Linking faith and employment ‘a bad idea’;  Why we must not tolerate intolerance;   Conflicts were too great;   It’s not black and white;    Sacked for religious beliefs;  Call for religious freedom bill;  Cancelled over religion