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Intersectional Approach to Uplift the Vulnerable
- 1. Intersectional approach to uplift the vulnerable Angel Marie Ysik,MA Gender Specialist, International Consultant, Community Organizer, Investigative Researcher
- 2. What word comes to mind when you hear “intersectionality”?
- 3. What is intersectionality? “Intersectionality is a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power…. It’s basically a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other. We tend to talk about race inequality as separate from inequality based on gender, class, sexuality or immigrant status. What’s often missing is how some people are subject to all of these, and the experience is not just the sum of its parts.” Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at Columbia University and University of California Los Angeles
- 7. Applying an intersectional approach • Intersectional analysis • Contextual analysis
- 8. Empowering Migrant Fishers of their rights Everyone can be victims of human trafficking • Men – poor, from remote areas, low educational level, don’t understand the language – they are lured to work in fishing vessel where they are subject to labor abuse and human trafficking • Systemic problem – cheap labor producing country, non-compliance to laws governing deployment of OFW, no access to legal remedies, etc. • Our solution - started documenting their issues for investigation; initiated an online support group; developed information materials in their language; referral to legal education and legal services
- 9. Teaching Empowerment Self Defense (ESD) to vulnerable population 1 in 3 women worldwide experience abuse and violence (WHO, 2021) - Vulnerable – every women, girls, men and boys experience regardless of age, social status, religion - Systemic problem – unequal power relations, patriarchy, discriminatory rules, laws, traditions and customs - Solution – we teach people the easy to learn principles of ESD – think, yell, run, fight, tell. Knowing that you are worthy of protection, and living an empowered life is the core of ESD.
- 10. Intersectionality is our tool in which we can be creative and strategic in solving humanity’s problem. We can’t achieve our SDGs if some populations are left behind because we only looked at one side of the problem. - Angel Marie Ysik, MA
Editor's Notes
- Do you know who is women is? She coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 based on her research and work on civil rights movement in the US. To put is simply - interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, that creates overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. Intersectionality is a way to understand how different aspects of people’s identity (age, gender, religion, economic status, and more) interact and converge to shape our experience of life and power.
- The CRIAW / ICREF Intersectionality Wheel is extremely useful for understanding the different intersections and how our current power structures reinforce various forms of discrimination. It explains that certain facets make up every person’s identity, including: How they grew up (who their parents are, what opportunities they had, etc.) - it refers to the power (afforded to buy material things, control over resources), privilege (studying getting a master degree, travelling freely without discrimination), access (heath services, education, internet, and safety (personal security - Certain changeable and unchangeable factors such as skin color, sexuality, and education level, age, religion, gender expression, language, marital status, nationality, political identity, immigration status, physical health, disability, mental health The various types of discrimination one experiences due to those factors such as racism, sexism, ableism, classism, patriachy, colonialism, homophobia, Structural issues that perpetuate systems of oppression, such as war, politics, financial crisis, among others Though every person’s experience is unique, this wheel helps us pinpoint which identities and experiences shape our personal worldviews.
- I usually use this approach when proposal projects, conducting research and training, organizing communities.
- Intersectional analysis it requires a shift from a single ground perspective to an analysis based on the assumption that an individual’s experiences are based on multiple identities that can be linked to more than one ground of discrimination. Our complex identities – in terms of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, ability and other factors – translate into different experiences of power, privilege, access and safety. For example, due to conflict or war, the parents of young girls in Mindanao arranged their daughter to be married at 16 Muslim girl so she will be provided with her needs and protection – these child will marry and bear children and will not be able to go to school and the cycle of poverty and illiteracy will continue. Examining the contextual factors based on the case. Contextual analysis means examining the discriminatory stereotypes; the purpose of the legislation, regulation or policy; the nature of and / or situation of the individual at issue, and the social, political and legal history of the person’s treatment in society.
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