“What we need is awareness, we can’t get careless…” – Hip Hop band Public Enemy lyrics from their song “Fight the Power”

Identity

Your identity is central to how you see yourself, and, how you see yourself is influenced by many factors including your own self-definition. These definitions are influenced by issues such as your age, gender, ethnicity, whether or not you are disabled or have a medical condition, your family background and life experiences.

Your identity is also influenced by other factors such as society’s responses to who they perceive you to be and how this is reflected in such areas as the media and your treatment by social institutions such as employers, the police and schools.