FM July 20, 2022:  “Crip Kinship” / Expansion of Gender Identity

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen ::  FIRST … What transformational lessons can we be we learning from the Disability Justice movement?
Today we talk to Shayda Kafai author of Crip Kinship – a radical new book that explores the art and activism of Sins Invalid, a queer disability justice performance project. We talk about the Queer disability justice framework and lessons that disabled, queer, and trans people of color have for collective survival and collective liberation

THEN … Three conversations explore the expansion of gender identity and presumed roles in our society.  Taking a look beyond the socially constructed ideas of what is male, female, masculine or feminine.

With all the rightwing attempts to redefine gender as solely based on a person’s genitalia at birth – Transgender, Intersex and Non-Binary Identities are threatened.  — What does it mean when people challenge specific societal expectations of gender? And for intersex individuals, how are these ideas of gender challenged? In the spectrum of “queer identity” how does one embody masculinity, femininity, or neither? And how are communities responding to the potential threat of erasure?