The Intersectional Realities of Being a Black Woman in Anti-Ableist Work

Chelsea Osei is an instructor at the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at McGill University and a speech-language pathologist at Summit School.  Osei also identifies as a non-disabled, cis-queer Black woman and a first-generation Canadian of Ghanaian descent.  In this video, she discusses how to apply an intersectional framework to disability studies to circumvent the added constraints disabled people face to mobility and health care when they are racialized, gender nonbinary or otherwise marginalized.  To overcome the oppressive consequences of ableism, she urges educators to consider scenarios specific to their profession and incorporate an intersectional framework. She stresses that this is not a “check-box” solution but an ongoing journey to shift the narrative around racialized disabled people’s experiences.