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Community Conversations: Gender identity, sexual preference, and race intersectionality

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February 23, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The upcoming CALS Community Conversations series will focus on the headlines about intersectionality’s amplification of marginalization.  The Breonna Taylor murder has not only sparked social unrest about racial injustice but how that unrest has particularly affected women, men, and groups with different gender identities who also bear the burden of identifying as members of other marginalized groups.  For example – the world-renowned journalist and spokesperson, Oprah changed the cover of her magazine for the first time ever, and at the same time, the chart-topping artist Beyonce got really involved in the protest against leniency shown the police in the highly publicized Breonna Taylor legal fight. It is now in this climate that Malcolm X’s statement from a seminar he conducted in May of 1962, has gained traction and has become very popular again – “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.  The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”  (May 22, 1962 -Los Angeles, CA).  With these current events in mind conversations about how race intersects other social identities are timely. 

This session will be a discussion about why trans women of color make up four out of five anti-trans homicides – talking about the stories of Felycya Harris, Aerrion Burneet, KaKedius Reid, and others who identify with non-conforming gender roles.

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February 23, 2021
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8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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