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Image source: DnA's Blog: Intersectional Approaches to Disability

Naming our Multiple Identities

We each inhabit and straddle multiple identities; identities that are shaped by group affiliation and social categories. The intersection of these multiple identities converge in a myriad of ways that impact how we engage and interact with others, the world, with institutions of power and in turn, how these interact, respond, and engage with us.

Take a moment to watch the video below and notice how Sonny Singh speaks

about and names his multiple identities:

Now, take a moment to make note of your multiple identities.

It may help if you simply fill in the blanks below:

My name is ____________________________

My race(s) is (are) _____________________

My ethnicity(ies) is/are_______________

My gender is__________________________

My religion is_________________________

My sexual orientation is _____________

My age is______________________________

My socio-economic class is __________

My disability is________________________

My immigration status is______________

Now, reflecting on the list above, consider the following questions:

Which of these identities do you inhabit with harmony?
Which of these identities are more unsettling to inhabit?

Consider why this is... under what conditions, which circumstances, what places,

and spaces you notice harmony, or an unsettling feeling?

Sometimes the same identity can be a place of harmony and unsettlement depending the above situations.