{"id":6379,"date":"2021-01-09T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T22:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2021-01-11T18:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T23:29:51","slug":"discrimination-is-intersectional-activism-can-be-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2021\/01\/discrimination-is-intersectional-activism-can-be-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination Is Intersectional. Activism Can Be Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026 What 2020 brought home for me was that being anti-ageist means supporting <\/span>every<\/span><\/i> movement for equal rights. It\u2019s a big ask, but we cannot dismantle ageism without dismantling ableism, and racism, and sexism and all the rest, because  these systems reinforce and depend on each other. (That\u2019s intersectionality\u2014a clunky word for an important concept developed by Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw and other Black feminists.) <\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I\u2019m delighted to announce the release of <\/span>Ageist? Racist? Who, Me?<\/em><\/a>,<\/span> Old School\u2019s free guide to starting a consciousness-raising group around the intersection of ageism and racism. That\u2019s why my new talk, \u201cStill Kicking: Confronting Ageism and Ableism in the Pandemic\u2019s Wake,\u201d tackles dual stigma and the potential for collective liberation. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m wishing for an intersectional 2021 and beyond. In the words of disability justice advocate Angel Love Miles, PhD, \u201cIntersectionality demands that we work towards the liberation of everyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowhere are the consequences of belonging to more than one marginalized group more tragically evident than in the havoc COVID<\/span>–<\/span>19 continues to wreak in long term care facilities\u2014which, like the rest of our health care system, had already been largely privatized and set up to fail. <\/span>More than 120,000 long term care workers and residents have died<\/span><\/a> since the pandemic began. Less than 1 <\/span>percent <\/span>of America\u2019s population lives in long term care facilities, but as of December 31, 2020, they accounted for 38 <\/span>percent <\/span>of US COVID-19 deaths. Residents are now dying at three times the rate they did in July.<\/span> <\/b><\/p>\n

Who lives in care homes? Older people and people with disabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n