Amelie LaPoint
In light of the Dobbs decision, this podcast visits the ongoing need for intersectional social movements through the lens of the Carmen Vázquez’s work.
Carmen Vázquez was a LGBTQ+ health activist that lead organizations in San Francisco and New York City in the 1980s – 2000s.
Vázquez envisioned a world where the LGBT Rights and Abortion Rights movements could work together under an intersectional lens.
We can’t predict the future, but we can look at a microhistory about how we got where we are today.
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- A copy of the original Causes In Common booklet
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- Photo of Carmen Vasquez, year unknown
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- Page 1 from one of Carmen Vasquez’s personal notebooks, on the topic of having a policewomen’s group in the San Francisco Women’s Building
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- Page 2 from one of Carmen Vasquez’s personal notebooks, continued
Further Reading
- An article called INTERSECTIONALITY: Mapping the Movements of a Theory by Devon W. Carbado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Vickie M. Mays, and Barbara Tomlinson
- Read works of Audre Lorde to learn about how race, class, gender, and other parts of the identity can impact feminism.
- Hear more from Carmen Vasquez in this short clip: #InequalityIs: Carmen Vazquez on inequality and LGBT rights
