Pink triangle

Invisible racism

Summary

Participants are invited to group themselves according to shapes and colours. Ultimately someone is left out.

Materials

Several post-its; pink, blue, red and a black marker;

Procedure

1. Before the activity, draw a geometric figure on each post-it: square, circle, rectangle, rhombus, trapeze, etc. depending on the number of participants. Draw a triangle with pink outlines on only one post-it. 2. Stick one post-it on the back of each participant, so that they do not know what the sign assigned to them is. Each participant can only see the symbols that are attached to the back of the other participants. 3. Ask participants to form groups based on similar characteristics. They can decide to form small groups according to similarity of form (e.g. all squares or all circles), or according to the colour (e.g. all reds and all blues). The person with the pink triangle would normally remain alone because their post-it does not belong to any category of colour or similar shape. 4. Give a time of five minutes to group and invite participants to discuss what happened and what the final result is.

Debriefing questions

• How are you, and how do you feel? • Are you satisfied with the result and why? • What was the “grouping” criterion you used? Why did you decide to choose this criterion? • Was there another way to regroup? • Can you compare what happened in the activity to real-life experiences? Give examples. • Who is different? • How do the processes of inclusion/exclusion happen?