Ep 34: Intersectionality
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Today’s episode is about intersectionality with Sandy Ho and Jean-Luc Pierite. Jean-Luc works at the Fab Foundation, a non-profit based in Boston and is the President of the Board of Directors for the North American Indian Center of Boston. Sandy is a community organizer and the founder of the Disability & Intersectionality Summit which will take place on October 13th in Cambridge Massachusetts with an affiliate event in Berkeley, California. Both Sandy and Jean-Luc will share what intersectionality means to them and their involvement with the Summit.
Transcript
Related Links
Disability Intersectionality Summit (DIS)
Crenshaw, Kimberlé. (September 24, 2015). Why intersectionality can’t wait. Washington Post.
Crenshaw, Kimberle () “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989: Iss. 1, Article 8. Available at: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8
“Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination.” From Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990), pp. 221–238.
Harrington, Samantha. (March 19, 2018). This Founder Creates Conversations On Disability And Intersectionality. Forbes.
Wong, Alice. (June 14, 2016). Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Interview w/ Sandy Ho.
Wong, Alice. (May 13, 2016). Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Holly Pearson and Lydia X. Z. Brown.
About
Sandy Ho is a queer Asian-American disabled woman who is a community-organizer. Recognized in 2015 as a White House Champion of Change for her work with disabled young women, Sandy is passionate about disability rights. Prior to her acceptance of her own identity as a disabled woman, Sandy’s social justice activism was realized through a year of service while creating a mentoring program that serves first-generation community college students in Boston. Sandy is a co-instructor of Disability Studies and the founder of the Disability & Intersectionality Summit.
Links: Disability & Intersectionality Summit
Twitter: @intersectedcrip
Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Jean-Luc Pierite now resides in Jamaica Plain. Prior to his election to the North American Indian Center of Boston (URL, http://www.naicob.org) Board of Directors, Jean-Luc was also elected to the Community Linguist seat of the Advisory Circle for CoLang for the period 2016-20. The Institute on Collaborative Language Research (URL, https://colang.lin.ufl.edu) or “CoLang” is designed to provide an opportunity for community language activists and linguists to receive training in community-based language documentation and revitalization. Currently, Jean-Luc volunteers with his Tribe’s Language and Culture Revitalization Program which is a collaboration with Tulane University in New Orleans. This program is based on tradition passed from Jean-Luc’s great-grandfather Joseph Alcide Pierite, Sr., last traditional chief and medicine man of the Tunica-Biloxi. The Tribe is an amalgamation of members from the Central Louisiana communities of: Tunica, Biloxi-Choctaw, Ofo, and Avoyel.
Jean-Luc has a B.A. in Humanities with a co-major in Mass Communication and Japanese from Dillard University in New Orleans. He also earned an A.S. in Video Game Design from Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. Jean-Luc currently is the International Procurement and Logistics Manager for The Fab Foundation. The Fab Foundation (URL, http://fabfoundation.org) was formed in 2009 to facilitate and support the growth of the international fab lab network as well as the development of regional capacity-building organizations. The Fab Foundation is a US non-profit 501(c) 3 organization that emerged from MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms Fab Lab Program.
Twitter: @neshoba78
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Sarika D. Mehta, Audio Producer
Alice Wong, Writer, Producer, Interviewer
Cheryl Green, Text Transcript
Lateef McLeod, Introduction
Mike Mort, Artwork
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