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Mia Mingus

Mia Mingus is an American writer, educator, and community organizer who focuses on issues of disability justice.[1][2][3][4][5] She is noted for introducing the concept of and coining the term "access intimacy"[6][7][8] and urges disability studies and activism to centralize the experiences of marginalized people within disability organizing.[9]

Career

Mingus' approach to disability justice focuses on dismantling privilege; “We don’t want to simply join the ranks of the privileged; we want to dismantle those ranks and the systems that maintain them” (Mingus, 2011, para. 5) [10]

She is especially well-known for her work on 'collective access.' Collective access emphasizes how disability interacts with other aspects of an individual's identities, making disability justice activism necessarily intertwined with anti-racist, feminist, reproductive justice, queer, and prison abolitionist activism.[11] Emphasizing solidarity between movements, collective access focuses on community-supported access and mutual independence instead of individualized specific accommodations.[11]

Mingus has given many keynote addresses at national events, including: the Femmes of Color Symposium in Oakland, CA in 2011,[12][13] Queer and Asian conference in 2013,[14] and Disability Intersectionality Summit in 2018.[15]

Accolades

Personal life

Mingus was born in Korea and adopted as an infant.[24] She is a transracial adoptee, raised by white parents and raised on St. Croix. Mingus is queer.[24]

References

  1. ^ "20 Queer People of Color You Should Know". OutSmart Magazine. May 1, 2014.
  2. ^ "Seeing in the Dark: Fighting against ableism". The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc.
  3. ^ "Mia Mingus". Woodhull Freedom Foundation.
  4. ^ "Mia Mingus | QPOC Affinity Resources". campuspress.yale.edu.
  5. ^ Nahmad, Erica (January 28, 2019). "13 Reasons Why Mia Mingus is the Kind of Feminist Everyone Loves".
  6. ^ Grace, Ellen (January 28, 2020). "The task of mental health".
  7. ^ Nugent, Molly. "Civic Nation BrandVoice: Access Is More Than Just Inclusion". Forbes.
  8. ^ "A Performance Festival by and for Disabled Artists". Hyperallergic. May 9, 2019.
  9. ^ Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, Elisabeth Harrison, Kirsty Liddiard & Manuela Ferrari (2015) Project Re•Vision: disability at the edges of representation, Disability & Society, 30:4, 513-527, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1037950
  10. ^ Andrews, E. E., Forber-Pratt, A., Mona, L. R., Lund, E. M., Pilarski, C. R., & Balter, R. (2019). #SaytheWord: A disability culture commentary on the erasure of “disability”. Rehabilitation Psychology, 64(2), 111-118. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1037/rep0000258
  11. ^ a b Kumbier, A., & Starkey, J. (2016). Access is not problem solving: Disability justice and libraries. Library Trends, 64(3), 468-491. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1353/lib.2016.0004
  12. ^ "Oakland Hosts BUTCH Voices and Femmes of Color Symposium National Gatherings This Weekend". GLAAD. September 14, 2011.
  13. ^ "Femmes of Color 2011, Keynote by Mia Mingus". August 25, 2011.
  14. ^ "Feminists We Love: Mia Mingus – The Feminist Wire". Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  15. ^ "2018 Keynote Bios". disummit.
  16. ^ "An introduction to five incredible women of color feminists you need to know". HelloGiggles.
  17. ^ Apr 15, Project Q. Atlanta |; Am, 2010 | 10:29. "Two Atlantans named to glossy's '40 Under 40'". Project Q. {{cite web}}: |first2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ "Forty Under 40". www.advocate.com. April 7, 2010.
  19. ^ "AAPI Women". The White House.
  20. ^ "Five California Asian American women recognized by White House as "Champions of Change"". cafwd.org.
  21. ^ "Wanting More and Finding Disability Justice". whitehouse.gov. May 13, 2013.
  22. ^ "An Interview with Mia Mingus, Oakland Champion of Change, on transformative justice". July 10, 2013.
  23. ^ Long, Kat; Collins, rew; Frances, Jacqueline (June 14, 2013). "100 Women We Love: Mia Mingus". GO Magazine.
  24. ^ a b ALOK. "Why Ugliness Is Vital in the Age of Social Media". them. Retrieved 2020-04-20.

External links

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