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Ep 34: Intersectionality

 

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.

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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

A headshot photo of Sandy Ho, Asian-American disabled woman with dark curly hair sitting in a wheelchair looking into the camera. Sandy is wearing a red beret and the words "In your dreams" are printed on it. She has on a dark blue sweatshirt, and white iphone headphones. The background is sunlit with grass and a willow tree.
A headshot photo of Sandy Ho, Asian-American disabled woman with dark curly hair sitting in a wheelchair looking into the camera. Sandy is wearing a red beret and the words “In your dreams” are printed on it. She has on a dark blue sweatshirt, and white iphone headphones. The background is sunlit with grass and a willow tree.

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

Jean-Luc stands dressed in a button-down shirt, hoodie, and blazer. Hanging from Jean-Luc's neck are a small leather medicine bag and a beaded rosette medallion. Both ornaments are gifts to Jean-Luc from grandmothers in the Mexica tradition.
Jean-Luc stands dressed in a button-down shirt, hoodie, and blazer. Hanging from Jean-Luc’s neck are a small leather medicine bag and a beaded rosette medallion. Both ornaments are gifts to Jean-Luc from grandmothers in the Mexica tradition.

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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Credits

Sarika D. Mehta, Audio Producer

Alice Wong, Writer, Producer, Interviewer

Cheryl Green, Text Transcript

Lateef McLeod, Introduction

Mike Mort, Artwork

Theme Music (used with permission of artist)

Song: “Dance Off” Artist: Wheelchair Sports Camp

Music

Slow Casino” by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License)

Creo que tengo un poco de miedo” by L.D.I. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License)

La verdadera impaciencia (B-side)” by L.D.I. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License)

Sounds

“VOCODER countdown” by Jack_Master. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.

8 Bit Beeping Computer Sounds” by sheepfilms. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.

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