Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Intersectionality

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Intersectionality

A lot of people have not idea what it means. For minorities it means overlapping discrimination. Take for example, being trans and black. Not only do you get discriminated because you are trans but also because you are Black. Trans people know what it is like being trans and being discriminated and Black what it is like to be discriminated because they are Black... but a Black trans person gets a double whammy.

So this year the LGBTQ+ film festival is having their closing party at the Science Center which is in the middle of a strike over wages. Furbirdsqueerly writes...

Out Film Ct. Which Side Are You On! Stop Union Busting At The Connecticut Science Center! Do Not Cross The Picket Line.
Posted: May 25, 2025 in Call to Action, Fight On!, Solidarity, Take Action

The Out Film Festival a festival of films brought to our community every June for the last 38 years is sadly making a big mistake. Pride At Work, Lavender Caucus, do you hear us? We say Move your party!

Ct. Science Center has fired its union janitors who had good benefits, good pay, paid holidays, and a union that cared and supported them to a non-union cleaning company. Do not cross the picket line! Out Film Ct. what side are you on? Does your hunger for acceptance outweigh your hunger for justice? Is there no solidarity with others in the working class?

In December of this year the management of the Ct. Science Center fired their 5 unionized janitors and replaced them with a non-union cleaning company. Despite protests, appeals, petitions and more the Science Center still refuses to reinstate the union cleaners.

I don't know about you... but I'm not going to the closing event. I'm not going to cross the line.

I have seen many people in our community ignore intersectionality. I have myself not realized intersectionality at times until it was pointed out to me. Then I changed what I was doing.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Intersectionality

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