Othering

• Have you ever felt like an other?
• What would you do to help someone who has been made to feel like an other?
• As a society, what are we doing to be more inclusive and address this issue of othering? What systemic changes need to be considered in order to make real positive impact? Is there anything we can do in our family or at our school to address this important issue? 

Multi-Media Resources on Othering

• Resource #1 - Frontline TV Series “Growing Up Trans”

  This is a real eye opener on the extraordinary challenges of parenting a trans child through to adulthood. More broadly, it explores what all teens go through when it comes to gender and sexuality, trans or not.
  
  Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too — with new medical options, and at younger and younger ages. In Growing Up Trans, FRONTLINE takes viewers on an intimate and eye-opening journey inside the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their families.

   

• Resource #2 – You Can’t Ask That (CBC Gem)

  This is something you can view with your son and is very engaging and on point for all ages.
  
  Each episode asks a group of people with the same disability the awkward, inappropriate or uncomfortable questions you are too afraid to ask. It’s an audacious, touching and funny series that is guaranteed to challenge everyone’s assumptions about life with a disability.

   

• Resource #3 - "Same Same Different" - Episode "Read the Room"

  This podcast is hosted by Black comedian Bryce Huffman. “Same Same Different” is a limited series dedicated to the notion of “surviving otherness.” This episode interviews a writer and a Broadway actor, who are accustomed to being the only BIPOC individuals in a room of white people. The episode is entertaining, accessible, and delicately informative — an easy segue into deeper dialogues with our sons. 

   

• Resource #4 - "Black on Bay Street"

  An insightful personal account by Hadiya Roderique of being a black Lawyer on Bay Street and the "nagging sense that other people didn't feel I belonged" there. Please note that if you are not a subscriber you may be asked to set up a free subscription. It’s worth it to read the article.