Audio essay: We Are Not Okay…And We Will Keep Resisting
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Please take care when listening, as this episode includes depictions of trauma and violence.
This Disability Pride Month isn’t just about celebrating the disability community: it marks a season of resistance. Our very existence is under threat, from drastic cuts to the social safety net, to vile attacks on the autistic community, a full-on assault on transgender lives, and the terrorizing of immigrants.
But this is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that those who face oppression and state violence have leaned on each other to challenge the forces that seek to erase us. In her powerful , “We Are Not Ok…And We Will Keep Resisting,” disability justice activist Conchita Hernandez Legorreta powerfully captures the pain, joy, and resistance of living at the intersection of immigration and disability.
Her story, like so many others, is one of trauma, state violence, and exploitation. But it is also a story about care, community, joy, and resistance.
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Conchita Hernandez Legorreta
About the guest:
Maria (Conchita) Hernandez Legorreta was born in Mexico and grew up in California. She specializes in providing educational consulting in the areas of accessibility, blindness, low vision, and Disability, advocating for the rights of blind children and their parents through a lens of intersectionality focusing on social justice.
Conchita is also a co-founder of the National Coalition of Latinx with Disabilities that seeks to amplify the voices of disabled Latinx in the disability rights movement. Conchita strives to be a voice for change for educators, professionals and advocates to make full inclusion a reality for people with disabilities in Latin America.
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