Let's explore embrace and engage in understanding ("finding") intersectionality together!!
Finding Intersectionality Together (FIT) is devoted to helping each other “Find our Intersectionality”. Intersectionality describes how biological, social, cultural categories, and other axes of identity interact/intersect simultaneously on various levels that contribute to systemic injustice and social inequality. We as an organization are dedicated to internalizing our understanding of intersect
10/25/2016
Dapper Crip: Q***rcrip Encounters with Fashion and Community “Embracing accessibility begins with representation.” Here, Kay Ulanday Barrett, QueenTite and Jax Jacki Brown explore q***r communities, accessibility, and who is deemed fashion-able.
08/11/2016
Mi familia, siempre My mother always explained to her children that our sisters are the only people that will be by our sides, forever. She instilled in us, that no matter how many times we fight and how many friends …
07/06/2016
Academia, Accessibility, Being Spoken For It’s a strange feeling to have your own life explained to you in someone else’s terms, isn’t it? When someone else seems to know your language better than you, and then they start…
06/15/2016
In Honor of Orlando: 10 Books That Celebrate Q***r Latinx Identity If you logged into Twitter yesterday even for 1 minute or followed the news at all, you heard the tragic news about the mass shooting that happened in Orlando, Florida. Hearing about the 50 peop…
06/07/2016
A Very Q***r Ramadan | Tanqeed This is a story of a group of q***r Muslims who refused to let their identities be mutually exclusive this Ramadan, a group of q***r Muslims who were tired...
06/03/2016
"The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care."
Sick Woman Theory Johanna Hedva lives with chronic illness and her Sick Woman Theory is for those who were never meant to survive but did. Her fellow spoonies.
05/28/2016
Language used to describe people born with intersex traits is often a source of debate. As such, interACT has published our official board approved position on terminology. http://ow.ly/aPP5300uUuL
05/25/2016
Crip Lit: Toward An Intersectional Crip Syllabus | Autostraddle A crip syllabus that resists limited notions of embodiment and medical pathology, and demands expansive understandings of disability, gender and sexuality.
05/02/2016
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Charting Magical Territories: the Art of Bishakh Som - Clyde Fitch Report Indie comix artist produces a gorgeous collection.
04/14/2016
#WeCameToSlay-A Love Letter to the South From SONG A Love Letter to the South In Times of Rage from the Co-Directors of Southerners On New Ground, Mary Hooks and Paulina Helm-Hernandez. www.southernersonnewground.org English…
04/06/2016
From last night's: Thirsty for Justice Panel! Here is the exclusive picture with, Chair of National Welfare Rights Union, Marian Kramer and, Flint Activist, Claire McClinton!