The Intersection- Our newest adventure
Ya'll it is official! The news has been broken and we have officially released our first episode of The Intersection, our newest venture with YEG Wellness Collective.
Months ago Brittany and Linda were talking and Brittany joked that Linda should release a YouTube channel or something along those lines. Linda said that she could not stand staring at herself but she had been toying with the idea of maybe doing a podcast, and if she were to do one, she would want Brittany to join her as a co-host. Well, Brittany obviously jumped all over this idea and asked Linda if she wanted to be a part of YWC and create her podcast through YWC with Jo. And now? Here we are. Recording via zoom, figuring out the ins and outs of audio editing, and talking about shit that we think needs to be talked about more.
How did we get here?
It's a little surreal for us too, don't worry. Brittany and Jo knew this year they wanted to push YWC to continue to grow. In just a year they had already seen their little community grow as more people began to reach out, wanting to share their own stories and truths. It was amazing to see just how many people connected to someone else's story and felt heard by reading about the hard parts about life that we don't often talk about. This is what YWC was all about. So how do we keep challenging the wellness industry? How do we continue to provide a voice for those stories that need to be uplifted and heard?
The Intersection became this vessel for us all thanks to Linda.
The Intersection is a podcast that will be used to challenge what it means to be inclusive. It will challenge the wellness industry, politics, pop-culture, our social identities, and so much more, all while having those tough conversations that need to be had. We want to not only be a voice for our community, but also provide a safe space for our community to speak through as well.
But why The Intersection?
Coming up with a name was probably the hardest part and Linda wanted it to really capture everything that we were all about, while not boxing us in. Sounds easy, right? But then we kept talking about intersectionality and the importance of this concept, and it finally clicked.
If you don't know, intersectionality is defined as the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage (Oxford Dictionary).
Basically intersectionality is a framework for understanding how we understand groups of people, a person, or social issues. Intersectionality take's into account a person's overlapping identities and experiences in order to understand the complexity of prejudices that people face. Your gender, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, or other identity markers are closely tied with how you experience the system. We cannot be an inclusive society if we don't recognize this. Brittany's experience as a white, cis-gendered, female will be different from a Black, trans-gendered, male. The access to resources and the quality of care for example are impacted by intersectionality.
Our intersectionality's are what makes us different and human. They are these qualities about us that shape and create how we experience the world. They can either hinder us or empower us. But the first step is acknowledging that they are there and they do have an impact, and that's what we hope to do in our podcast.
Want more information on Intersectionality? Linda kindly put together the following.
One can not talk about intersectionality, if without acknowledging Kimberlé Crenshaw. Law professor and social theorist, who first coined the term intersectionality in her 1989 paper “Demarginalizing The Intersection Of Race And Sex: A Black Feminist Critique Of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory And Antiracist Politics.” The theory emerged two decades earlier, however, when Black feminists began to speak out about the white, middle-class nature of the mainstream feminist movement. Black women felt left out of the conversations, the new wave of feminism, and outlined issues and challenges, that the white middle class women were facing.
Crenshaw wrote, discrimination remains because of the “stubborn endurance of the structures of white dominance” . In other words, the American legal and socioeconomic order was largely built on racism.
Crenshaw argued that the court’s narrow view of discrimination was a prime example of the “conceptual limitations of ... single-issue analyses” regarding how the law considers both racism and sexism. In other words, the law seemed to forget that black women are both black and female, and thus subject to discrimination on the basis of both race, gender, and often, a combination of the two”(Crenshaw 1989”).
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