Develop awareness of ways your identity and background shape your points of view, perceptions, biases, and actions when you engage with objects, systems, and content.

Questions to ask yourself: What and who influences my point of view? What shapes my bias? What parts of my identity influence my ideas and judgments? How does my identity or background influence how I engage with/relate to human-designed objects and systems?

Investigate the context surrounding an object, system, or piece of content

Questions to ask yourself: Where was this object, system, or content made? When was it made? Who made it? What else was occurring at that place and time?

Illuminate systems of legacy that shape, provoke, and pervade modern society.

Questions to ask yourself: How does the past shape modern society? How does legacy make history enduring?

Consider voices, perspectives, and stories that are present, those that are missing, and why/how the presence and absence of voice might be intentional

Questions to ask yourself: What/whose voices, perspectives, or stories are present? What/whose are missing? Why? How does the presence or absence of certain voices, perspectives, or stories reveal messages about power?

Explore the complexity of power in objects, systems, and content in order to find opportunities to intervene and/or make shifts in power

Questions to ask yourself: What are the different types of power present in this object, system or content? Who/what/where is the power coming from? Who/what/where is it moving toward? Who/what has the most power? Who/what has the least? How might power shift or change? What are some points of intervention that could lead to these shifts or changes?

Courageously share and receive perspectives, even—and especially—when they are contested

Resiliently listen through and accept discomfort in pursuit of complex and in-depth learning

Questions to ask yourself: What are some perspectives I have learned or heard about that are difficult to understand or relate to? What could I do in order to better receive these perspectives? What are some perspectives I have shared that may be difficult for others to understand or relate to? What could I do to help others receive these perspectives?

Find opportunities to exercise agency to participate more or differently

Envision new or different narratives that challenge oppressive forces and systems

Questions to ask yourself: How am I currently participating? How might I participate more or differently? How might I challenge oppressive forces and systems by participating more or differently? Who else is participating, and how? Who might be participating without realizing it?