Title: Intersecting Identities: Intersectionality in the Disabled Community
Date: Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
Time: 10:00
Venue: Online
Have you ever thought about what defines you as a person? Many times we find ourselves highlighting various identities that were assigned to us by society. We identify with a particular gender, age group, ethnicity. Our experiences and roles also contribute to our identities.
Originally coined by Kimberl茅 Crenshaw (1989) in her study on Black American women鈥檚 experiences in the courtroom, the term intersectionality has travelled beyond disciplines (Cho, Crenshaw & McCall, 2013). Intersectionality is considered to be an approach through which differences and sameness of a multitude of identities (Crenshaw, 1991), and dynamics of intersecting identities are explored (Lykke, 2011).
Many service providers in our society cater for specific social groups, categorizing individuals into boxes that undermine the colorful identities of such persons. Beyond their impairment, persons with a disability also have different identities that intersect together to form a unique individual with a diversity of experiences, interests and participation in multiple social groups.
The Faculty for Social Wellbeing in collaboration with the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD) is organising a webinar which will address the issue of disability across other minority groups such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity and religion.
The conference is intended to bring to light socio-economic challenges that persons with disabilities are faced with when their narrative intersects with other experiences. The expected outcome of this webinar is to come up with a number of policy recommendations aimed at ensuring the inclusion of persons with disability, even if they might have multiple minority experiences.
The webinar is intended for stakeholders (service users, service providers, researchers and academia) in the social and economic sectors, including those whose work focuses on disability issues, gender issues and sexuality, youth related transitions, the elderly, religion and ethnic diversity, migration, poverty and social exclusion. In other words, as social operators we will attempt to identify with the grassroots areas of discrimination and inequality and seek remedies around social justice.
The webinar Intersecting Identities: Intersectionality in the Disabled Community will be held on Tuesday 20 October 2020 at 10:00. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants.
Register .
