#170 What is disability and intersectionality?

Welcome to the 169th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast. This month's theme is all about intersectionality and disability for Disability History Month 2020.

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On today’s show

• A podcast I really enjoy listening to. [00:41]
• Why progress in EDI is often glacial. [02:10]
• What is intersectionality? [02:39]
• Why we need to talk about prejudice [04:16]
• About the wheel of systemic advantages and disadvantages. [05.45]

Quotes

• It's imperative to consider disability in a holistic way.
• It's about barriers. It's about inequity. It's also about the hurdles that people might have to jump over because the system is set up in a particular way.
• If we're closer to power, we're going to have fewer barriers. So, it's the circumstances that can support people or undermine them.
• We know that secure environments and a lack of caring responsibility enable free or freer choices to be made.
• There is a considerable variation that exists between people, and this will be influenced by both external and internal factors.

Resources

• Leave me an anonymous message on my SpeakPipe
• UK Disability History Month
• DIVERSish video
• Listen to Episode #29: Intersectionality for International Women’s Day
• Check out Episode #119: Universal Design and why it’s so important

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