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Monday Mini: Disability Pride and Women · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome to stuff. I'll
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  Speaker 1: never told you prodectn of I heart you. And as
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  Speaker 1: this comes out, it will be July first, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: which is the first day of Disability Pride months, So
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to kick that off with just some statistics.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll have more topics to discuss, but I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to look into it because I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that we've ever We've done episodes on disability Pride and
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  Speaker 1: disability obviously, but I wasn't sure what the current state
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  Speaker 1: of statistics were, so I wanted to talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: With that content warning for domestic violence, rape, sexual assaults,
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  Speaker 1: and eugenics, we're not going to get two in depth
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  Speaker 1: into any of those things, but that is a part
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  Speaker 1: of the statistics unfortunately. So here we go from you
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  Speaker 1: and women. It is estimated that one in five women
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  Speaker 1: live with a disability. Women with disabilities experience various types
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  Speaker 1: of impairments, including physical, psychological, intellectual, and sensory conditions that
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  Speaker 1: may or may not come with functional limitations. In addition,
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  Speaker 1: the diversity of women with disabilities includes those with multiple
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  Speaker 1: and intersecting identities across all contexts such as ethnic, religious,
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  Speaker 1: and racial backgrounds, their status has refugee, migrant, asylum seeking
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  Speaker 1: and internally displaced women, LGBTQ plus identity, age, marital status,
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  Speaker 1: and living with or being affected by HIV. From the
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  Speaker 1: CDC quote, about thirty six million women in the US
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  Speaker 1: have disabilities and the number is growing. About forty four
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  Speaker 1: percent of those age sixty five years or older are
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  Speaker 1: living with disability. The most common cause of disability for
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  Speaker 1: women is arthritis are rheumatism. So I think something to
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind with a lot of these statistics is
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  Speaker 1: we have talked a lot about just in general, how
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  Speaker 1: women and marginalized people are not always taken seriously as
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  Speaker 1: patients when they come in with things, and that has
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  Speaker 1: led to really long delays in getting something diagnosed. It's
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  Speaker 1: also led to potentially death. But also on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately we're seeing in a lot of countries, not just
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  Speaker 1: the US, kind of slashing of healthcare, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that centers around disability. So from now quote, women
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  Speaker 1: with disabilities are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to wage equality.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, women who are disabled seventy two
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  Speaker 1: cents for every dollar paid to a man who is disabled.
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  Speaker 1: Compared to the non disabled community, women with disabilities made
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight cents to every dollar earned to able bodied
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  Speaker 1: men If an individual from this community is seeking employment.
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  Speaker 1: The current hiring rate of women with disabilities between the
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  Speaker 1: ages of sixteen to sixty four stands at thirty seven percent.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the employment process, women can face challenges ranging from
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  Speaker 1: organizational readiness and inclusivity to accessible employment processes and workplace
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  Speaker 1: inclusivity provisions. And here's another one from American Progress. According
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  Speaker 1: to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC,
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  Speaker 1: disability affects one four black people in the United States. However,
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  Speaker 1: getting a clear picture of what it's like to live
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  Speaker 1: with a disability or as a person of color can
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  Speaker 1: be difficult, due in large part to the fact data
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  Speaker 1: collection on these issues is limited and inconsistent. The data
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  Speaker 1: that are available show African Americans are are more likely
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  Speaker 1: to have a disability than white people, as well as
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  Speaker 1: that the disability appears to have greater impacts on them.
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  Speaker 1: Both black people and disabled people face barriers to education
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  Speaker 1: and employment that limit their earning potential. According to the
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  Speaker 1: National Disability Institute, people with disabilities are twice as likely
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  Speaker 1: to live in poverty than people without disabilities, and nearly
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  Speaker 1: forty percent of African Americans with disabilities live in poverty.
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  Speaker 1: Even after adjusting for education levels, disabled African Americans are
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  Speaker 1: more likely to live in poverty than other people with disabilities.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the economic impact. But then there's something else
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  Speaker 1: we've also talked about before, which is the sexual violence
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence impact that intersects with disability. So, going back
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  Speaker 1: to now quote, about one in four women have experienced contact,
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  Speaker 1: sexual violence, physical violence, and or stalking by an intimate
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  Speaker 1: partner during their lifetime, research has shown that women with
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  Speaker 1: disability are more likely to experience intimate partner violence than
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  Speaker 1: those without disability. In fact, researchers found that compared to
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  Speaker 1: women without a disability, women with a disability were significantly
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  Speaker 1: more likely to report experiencing each form of intimate partner
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  Speaker 1: violence measured, which includes rape, sexual violence other than rape,
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  Speaker 1: physical violence, stocking, psychological aggression, and control of reproductive or
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  Speaker 1: sexual health. And here's a quote from the WHO, the
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  Speaker 1: World Health Organization. One systematic review of found greater risk
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  Speaker 1: of intimate partner violence for women with disabilities compared with
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  Speaker 1: those without. While another also found higher rates of sexual violence.
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  Speaker 1: So that brings us to the intersection of reproductive rights
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  Speaker 1: and disability And obviously there's a lot of turmoil around
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  Speaker 1: reproductive rights in the United States right now and in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of countries right now. As always, listeners, if
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  Speaker 1: you can write in what's going on in your area,
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  Speaker 1: we would love to hear from you, because it is
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  Speaker 1: a lot happening very quickly, it feels like. But here
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  Speaker 1: is a quote from American Progress. Reproductive and disability justice
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  Speaker 1: are both human rights based frameworks that at their core
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  Speaker 1: share fundamental similarities. They both prioritize the right to bodily
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  Speaker 1: autonomy and self determination, the right to raise children if
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  Speaker 1: one chooses to have them with dignity and in a
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  Speaker 1: safe environment, the right to access the healthcare one needs
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  Speaker 1: free from political interference or stigmatization, and the right to
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  Speaker 1: community care. Yet, even with such overlaps, the reproductive justice
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  Speaker 1: and disability justice movements have rarely interacted due to misunderstanding
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  Speaker 1: and miscommunication, particularly around abortion. Through the leadership of LGBT,
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  Speaker 1: black and Indigenous activist and visionaries, reproductive and disability justice
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  Speaker 1: communities are reframing the conversation to be more inclusive of
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  Speaker 1: multi marginalized individuals. Exploring the intersection of the disability and
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  Speaker 1: reproductive justice communities is not only necessary to better understand
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  Speaker 1: how current societal structures hinder or restrict people with disabilities
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  Speaker 1: from making reproductive health decisions that are right for them,
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  Speaker 1: but also what policy solutions must be crafted in order
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  Speaker 1: to ensure reproductive justice is a reality for all. And
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  Speaker 1: then now goes on to go into yes, the fact
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  Speaker 1: that abortion cares being restricted or banned in several states,
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  Speaker 1: and that for women with a disability, pregnancy or the
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  Speaker 1: ability to access abortions can be very life or death.
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  Speaker 1: It's not necessarily a choice but the only option. And
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  Speaker 1: also that because there is this higher rate of sexual
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  Speaker 1: assault that we discussed, that it could impact even further
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  Speaker 1: this community, which is very very important. But also remember
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about this before, reproductive justice does not only
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  Speaker 1: equal abortion, especially when we look at the history of
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  Speaker 1: forced sterilization that particularly impacted women and extra particularly women
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  Speaker 1: of color with disabilities. So here's a quote from American Progress.
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  Speaker 1: The reproductive rights movement has historically fought for the legal
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  Speaker 1: right to abortion in connection to disability. This has occurred
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  Speaker 1: in an environment dense with misinformation and stigma about pre
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  Speaker 1: needle diagnoses of disability, disability selective abortions, which are based
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  Speaker 1: on a diagnosis of disability before birth, are fueled in
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  Speaker 1: part by eugenics, with ablest assumptions about disability and lifespan,
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  Speaker 1: quality of life, and the desirability of raising a disabled child,
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  Speaker 1: among others. I think when we talk about intersexual feminism,
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  Speaker 1: this is so important and why this disability pride is important,
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  Speaker 1: and why we need to have these conversations and why
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  Speaker 1: we need to talk about these intersections because as we
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  Speaker 1: discussed in past episodes and in our book People with Disabilities,
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  Speaker 1: which by the way, there is an ongoing conversation of
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  Speaker 1: how preferred terminology, So I just want to acknowledge that,
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  Speaker 1: but that it is the largest marginalized community in the
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  Speaker 1: world that can impact anybody, whether it's temporarily or permanently.
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  Speaker 1: So I think this is so important to keep in
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  Speaker 1: mind these intersectional numbers and keep in mind this history,
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  Speaker 1: and not to involve people who should be involved in conversations,
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  Speaker 1: decision making conversations, because as we know, this is a
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  Speaker 1: big election year, not just for the US but for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of places, and with everything that's going on,
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  Speaker 1: it's really important that we not leave people out of
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  Speaker 1: conversations like this that should be the ones leading. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to go over some of those statistics because
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  Speaker 1: I was just curious and there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: resources out there for people who want to look more
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  Speaker 1: into it, and I'm sure, as I said, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: coming back and doing more episodes, but for now, we
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to kickstart this month with this short Monday
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