Allyship in Action:

An accomplice uses the power and privilege they must challenge the status quo, often risking their physical and social well-being.

To acknowledge, respect, and support a person’s identity regarding race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, experiences, ideas, or beliefs, or encouraging the development of an individual.

Biased attitudes about a group of individuals are aware; these may be visible or invisible, but they can be accessed. (SAIC)

The unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect a person’s understanding, actions, or decisions as they relate to people from different groups.

A particular group, culture, or community with which an individual identifies or shares a sense of belonging.

The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Intent refers to what a person hopes or wants to do when performing an action. Impact refers to the reality (e.g., results) of one’s actions/ behaviors.

Systemic favoring, enriching, valuing, validating, and including specific social identities over others. Individuals cannot “opt out” of systems of privilege; instead, these systems are inherent in the society in which we live.