Intersectionality is so fundamental, and so obvious*, that it boggles my mind that anyone, never mind some people who proclaim themselves activists on this stuff, can deny its importance/existence.
(* and I still needed it pointing out - maybe it's a can't see the wood for the trees thing?)
Microaggressions I know I can regularly still fail to see if they aren't in the disability area, and having had non-disabled people unable to comprehend microaggressions towards me that they've just witnessed, and wondering why I'm fuming, I recognise I need to support/let myself be led by members of other minority groups when talking about microaggressions in their own areas. Interestingly microaggressions and the damage they do (though they used another term which escapes me right now) were one of the things covered in the CBT module of my recent pain management course.
I escaped the structural oppression of being a woman in STEM by the simple measure of being a man, but I saw it happening to all my woman peers, to the point I'm not certain any of them still have their original careers (the only one I know still working in STEM had to move to Germany to do it). It really wasn't any surprise to run into the disablism after that, other than it being quite so blatant, and quite so openly corrupt.
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Date: 2015-01-14 06:54 pm (UTC)(* and I still needed it pointing out - maybe it's a can't see the wood for the trees thing?)
Microaggressions I know I can regularly still fail to see if they aren't in the disability area, and having had non-disabled people unable to comprehend microaggressions towards me that they've just witnessed, and wondering why I'm fuming, I recognise I need to support/let myself be led by members of other minority groups when talking about microaggressions in their own areas. Interestingly microaggressions and the damage they do (though they used another term which escapes me right now) were one of the things covered in the CBT module of my recent pain management course.
I escaped the structural oppression of being a woman in STEM by the simple measure of being a man, but I saw it happening to all my woman peers, to the point I'm not certain any of them still have their original careers (the only one I know still working in STEM had to move to Germany to do it). It really wasn't any surprise to run into the disablism after that, other than it being quite so blatant, and quite so openly corrupt.