TUMBLR - I’m running my first diversity training tomorrow! It is geared specifically towards awareness/inclusion of a diverse population when recruiting for volunteers for any given program or event!

Here’s my final list of questions. I know it’s probably a bit too long at the moment, but I’m having a really hard time deleting questions. I’ve done my best to compile a variety of statements from privilege walk descriptions on teh internetz. Look it over and check my language? THX LOVE YOU.

Privilege Walk Activity Questions

·   Please step forward: If you are right handed.

·   Please step forward: If your primary national identity is American.  

·   Please step forward: If you were born in the United States.

·   Please step back:  If your ancestors were forced to come to the USA, not by choice.  

·   Please step back:  If you were ever called names because of your race, ethnicity, class, actual or perceived gender or gender expression, sex, ability, age, veteran status, national origin, or sexual orientation. 

·   Please step back: If you have been the victim of physical violence based on the aforementioned categories.

·   Please step forward:  If there were people of color who worked in your household as nannies, servants, gardeners, etc.

·   Please step forward: If one or both of your parents or guardians has a college degree.  

·   Please step back: If you were raised in an area, where there was prostitution, drug activity, etc.

·   Please step forward: If you studied the culture of your ancestors in elementary school.

·   Please step back: If when you started school in the US, you spoke another language at home.

·   Please step forward: If there were more than 50 books in your house when you grew up.

·   Please step back: If you were ever hungry because there was not enough money to buy food when you were young.

·   Please step back: If one of your parents or guardians was unemployed or laid off, not by choice.

·   Please step back: If your family ever had to move because they could not afford the rent.

·   Please step back: If you were ever discouraged from academics/ jobs due to race, ethnicity, class, actual or perceived gender or gender expression, sex, ability, age, veteran status, national origin, or sexual orientation. 

·   Please step back: If you were ever denied employment due to the above categories.

·   Please step forward: If you were encouraged to attend college by your parent(s) or legal guardians.

·   Please step back: If you were raised in a single parent household.

·   Please step forward: If your family owned the house where you grew up. 

·   Please step forward: If you were ever offered a good job because of your association with a friend or family member.  

·   Please step back: If you were ever accused of cheating /lying because of your race, ethnicity, class, actual or perceived gender or gender expression, sex, ability, age, veteran status, national origin, or sexual orientation. 

·   Please step back: If you were ever stopped/questioned by the police due to the above categories.  

·   Please step forward: If you ever inherited money or property.  

·   Please step back: If while in grade school (preK – 12^th grade), you had to rely primarily on public transportation.   

·   Please step forward: If you have always felt safe holding hands with your partner when you walk together.

·   Please step forward: If you can legally marry anyone you might fall in love with.

·   Please step forward: If you can be in your workplace without hearing a negative comment about your sexual orientation.

·   Please step back: If you leave your office late at night and worry about safety as you walk to your car.

·   Please step forward: if you speak your mind in a staff meeting and know that you won’t be openly challenged.

·   Please step forward: If you can act assertively about a topic or situation without someone asking if it’s that time of the month.

·   Please step back: If you can’t go into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with your cultural tradition.

·   Please step forward: If you can go into a hair salon and be assured someone will know how to cut your hair.

·   Please step forward: If you should need to move, you can rent/buy housing in an affordable area where you would want to live.

·   Please step forward: If you can easily enter any building without having first to check for accessibility.

·   Please step forward: If you know that right now, you are not seen as a burden to your family.

·   Please step forward: If you know that airplane seats, restaurant booths, movie theater seats, and car seats are made for people your size.

·   Please step forward: If you can be assured that your place of work will be closed on your major religious holidays.

·   Please step forward: If when you attend a program or participate in class, you don’t have to worry whether or not there will be an interpreter

·   Please step forward: If when you buy a TV, you don’t have to worry if it has closed captioning capabilities.

·   Please step forward: If you can be assured that your first language will be spoken wherever you go.

·   Please step back: If you have been told you’re “too dark” or “too light”  

·   Please step back: If your ideas have been discounted because of your age.

·   Please step forward: If you can go to a store and easily find good selections in your size.

·   Please step back: If you have ever been followed in a store.

·   Please step forward: If you have extra money for fun things.

·   Please step forward: If your family always had health insurance.

·   Please step back: If you took out loans for your education.

·   Please step forward: If you had a yearly family vacation

·   Please step back: If someone in your immediate family has ever been addicted to drugs or alcohol

·   Please step forward: If you were given a car by your family.

·   Please step forward: If your parent(s) or guardian(s) brought you to art galleries or plays.

·   Please step forward: If your parents or guardians told you could be anything you wanted to be.