Onward

Historian Wendy Warren

Listen: Forgotten History: How The New England Colonists Embraced The Slave Trade

“Lighten Up” by Ronald Wimberly

is the undercurrent theme of this blog. Perhaps this is a new concept. If so, here are some things to get started: 

Kimberlé Crenshaw (who coined the term in 1989)  on intersectionality: “I wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that anyone could use.” (source)

“Intersectionality promotes an understanding of human beings as shaped by the interaction of different social locations (e.g., ‘race’/ethnicity, Indigeneity,gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion). These interactions occur within a context of connected systems and structures of power (e.g., laws, policies, state governments and other political and economic unions, religious institutions, media). Through such processes, interdependent forms of privilege and oppression shaped by colonialism, imperialism, racism, homophobia, ableism and patriarchy are created. 

PUT SIMPLY: According to an intersectionality perspective, inequities are never the result of single, distinct factors. Rather, they are the outcome of intersections of different social locations, power relations and experiences.” (source)

Read more things! There are a lot. Here are just a few:

40 Years of: Past, Present, and Future

Left: Parents Wedding Photo May 1974 (the only photo remaining from before the Khmer Rouge) Center: The march out of Phnom Penh, concentration camps, and my family in a Thai Refugee Camp in the mid 1980s Right: My father helping my nephew put on his shoe

The Past

This day 40 years ago, my father (22) and my mother(16) who was 6 months pregnant with my older brother was forced to evacuate Phnom…