Posts Tagged: intersectionality

Disability Narratives: Disability Will Affect Everyone

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[This post is a contribution from Emma Round, disability rights activist, who blogs at Pseudo-Living and is taken from a series of email exchanges regarding disability narratives being suppressed due to non-disabled people's potential fear of becoming disabled.] The idea being that people’s minds, for their own protection, work hard not to think about personal… Read more »

Intersect Conference, Bristol 2012

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[This post originally appeared at Forty Shades of Grey on 21st May, 2012.] Last Saturday saw the (possibly inaugural) Intersect conference in Bristol, which was a feminist conference featuring speakers from different communities discussing the intersecting oppressions they face and what we, as feminists and allies, should be aware of and what we can possibly… Read more »

On Forcing a Narrative

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[image credit: Josh] I started Silence, Cupcake a couple of months ago. It began as a dream (the best things do) of giving more space to the unheard voices, the marginalised voices, the voices nobody wants to hear, or hear about. I wanted a diversity of narratives, a place where lots of different people could… Read more »

Clarification: What is a ‘safe space’?

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In the launch and welcome post I state that “Silence, Cupcake is a safe space for absolutely every marginalised body.” Anyone who hangs around in, is a part of, or regularly reads and comments on (or all of the above) the ‘Social Justice’ section of the internet knows that these are Big Words. So I… Read more »