Denver Theatre of the Oppressed

12/19/2023

Free Palestine 🍉🍉🍉
Add your voice to the global dissent!
We are stronger together.
Every child deserves life without violence.
All these genocides and global tragedies are connected. What we do now matters.
Free, Free Palestine!

06/01/2020

LISTEN, LEARN, ACT. Our most helpful advice at this time is to follow black-led organizations, boost content created and provided for black people, and donate to black programs to help strengthen our community at this time. We must do everything in our power to learn from black people and affect change now!!

02/12/2019

“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people’s expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we’re immediately born into. It’s like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe. It’s not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It’s a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it’s hard work, but it’s the price you pay for owning everything.” Scott Woods.

11/30/2018

AMAZING resource for taking small meaningful action.
In one poll, 4% of women made 5 or more phone calls to congress every week. 0% of men in that poll took that kind of action. If you are a MAN and clicked on this and made a phone call, let us know! You could be a reason to cheer. We need you to use your privilege and voice to change the hearts and minds of congress. Thank you!

The Tr*mp War on Progress aka the War on Women aka the War on Black People aka the War on Native Americans aka the War on Immigrants aka the War on Q***r People (etc.) is underway. If you’re ready to fight back… First: Choose Your Weapons Phone Calls | Text Messages | Postcards | IRL Stuff The.....

10/06/2018

cruel and shortsighted policy. thats like the byline of our country rn

Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and to The Prison Poli...

08/02/2018

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

The reaction to Nia Wilson’s death is a lesson in being an ally.

11/23/2017

No more whitewashing, only truth. Let us be a generation that the world can truly be thankful for. Enjoy your time with your families, while acknowledging the experiences of our native brothers and sisters, and stop the crime of perpetual lies which erase our true history.

11/21/2017

possibly the most intellectual breakdown on youtube in less than 5-minutes of why white people can't use the N-word, and what that experience embodies.

Bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates answers an audience question about the power and ownership of words at the Family Action Network event with Evanston Town...

11/21/2017

remember and protect

Victims of anti-transgender violence from 20th November 2016 to 20 November 2017

10/29/2017

so simple :)

10/29/2017

TLDR: You are a brave man when you stop abuse and misogyny where it starts, not after it's exposed. Don't play feminism like a game, guys.

Anne Thériault takes a closer look at the Ben Affleck statement on Harvey Weinstein—and the responses to it

10/23/2017

HOW YOU CAN END R**E CULTURE

This is a list of actionable items every man can take to stop r**e culture where it starts, wherever he sees it.

- be aware of your inherent power in situations and use it to protect women, Especially by talking to other men
- stop thinking that because you're also marginalized or a survivor that you cannot inflict pain or oppress women
- talk to your friend who's "kind of a creep"
- don't talk over women
- don't use your "feminism" as a way to get women to trust you. show us in your day-to-day life, not in your self-congratulatory social media
- when you see another guy talk over a woman say "hey, she was saying something"
- learn to read a room
- don't call women crazy
- don't touch women you don't know, and honestly, ask yourself why you feel the need to touch women in general
- do you feel that any woman on earth owes you something? she doesn't. even if you're like "hm but what about basic respect" ask yourself if you've shown her the same
- don't send pictures of your p***s
- if a woman says no to a date, don't ask her again
- if a woman has not given an enthusiastic "yes" to s*x, back. off.
- if a woman is really drunk, she cannot consent to you and she Also cannot consent to your buddy who seems to be trying something. your buddy is your responsibility-so say something and intervene
- if you do the right thing, don't expect praise or payment or a pat on the back or even a thank-you from that woman. congratulations. you were baseline decent
- involve women in your creative projects, then let them have equal part in them
- don't make misogynistic jokes
- don't expect women to be "nice" or "cute" and don't get upset when they aren't those things
- don't make assumptions about women's intelligence, capabilities, or desires based on how she dresses
- apologize when you mess up Without giving an excuse. and yes, "the reason" is also an excuse
- pay women as much as you pay men
- if a woman tells you that you messed up, and you feel bad, don't put it on that woman to make you feel better. apologize without qualification and then go away
- don't punish women for witnessing your vulnerability
- don't get defensive when you get called out
- don't need to literally witness a man being horrible in order to believe that he's horrible. TRUST AND BELIEVE WOMEN
- don't use your power to get women's attention/company/s*x/etc
- if you get asked to be on a panel/team and see that it's all men, say something. maybe even refuse the spot! and tell them Why
- stop thinking about how women's pain makes YOU feel pain
- don't read a list like this and think that most of these don't apply to you
-- adapted from a post by Nicole Silverberg