Complex Identities: Hoosiers with Disabilities from Minoritized Communities
"We have been omitted for such a long time. It's as if we don't matter," observes Gary resident Tony Blair. Like other people of color with disabilities, he is a member of multiple minoritized communities. The concept of intersectionality was theorized by civil rights advocate and legal scholar…
Title
Complex Identities: Hoosiers with Disabilities from Minoritized Communities
Subject
Disability Rights Movement
Advocacy
Government Services
Education
Veterans
Description
"We have been omitted for such a long time. It's as if we don't matter," observes Gary resident Tony Blair. Like other people of color with disabilities, he is a member of multiple minoritized communities. The concept of intersectionality was theorized by civil rights advocate and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. This video draws upon themes that emerged in remote interviews with Hoosiers with disabilities who have experienced intersectionality in their daily lives.
Interviewees talk about the experience of being doubly minoritized. Ronelle Johnson shares, "Honestly my sign language is white. I don't have an identity as a Black person because I grew up at the Deaf School." As a child paralyzed by polio, Ecuadorian immigrant Zully Alvarado says she was "uprooted from my culture," and "placed with a family, total strangers, a white family. They did not speak my language."
Eight individuals describe lives complicated by their multiple, marginalized identities and the overlapping systems of oppression they must navigate. They describe first-hand encounters with injustice and how they have worked to end those injustices.
Interviewees talk about the experience of being doubly minoritized. Ronelle Johnson shares, "Honestly my sign language is white. I don't have an identity as a Black person because I grew up at the Deaf School." As a child paralyzed by polio, Ecuadorian immigrant Zully Alvarado says she was "uprooted from my culture," and "placed with a family, total strangers, a white family. They did not speak my language."
Eight individuals describe lives complicated by their multiple, marginalized identities and the overlapping systems of oppression they must navigate. They describe first-hand encounters with injustice and how they have worked to end those injustices.
Creator
Indiana Disability History Project
Publisher
Center for Health Equity at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities
Date
2022-09-30
Contributor
Zully JF Alvarado - interviewee
Tony and Connie Blair - interviewees
Melody Cooper - interviewee
Ledrena Girton and Patrice Hunter - interviewees
Ronelle Johnson - interviewee
Ray Lay - interviewee
Seena M. Skelton - interviewee
Peggy Holtz - director, videographer/editor
Jane Harlan-Simmons - co-director, scriptwriter, interviewer
Stephanie Jackson - narrator
Rights
Copyright © 2022 The Trustees of Indiana University
Format
video/mp4
Language
English
Type
Moving Image
Identifier
190-mi
Access Rights
Open to all users
Bibliographic Citation
"Complex Identities: Hoosiers with Disabilities from Minoritized Communities" YouTube video, 00:11:00 by the Indiana Disability History Project posted by "Indiana Disability History" on September 30, 2022 https://youtu.be/JuBftKXXu5s
Spatial Coverage
Indiana
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