Mia Mingus

Mia Mingus is an American writer, educator, and community organizer who focuses on issues of disability justice.[1][2][3][4][5] She is noted for introducing the concept of and coining the term "access intimacy"[6][7][8] and urges disability studies and activism to centralize the experiences of marginalized people within disability organizing.[9]

Mia Mingus

Career

Mingus' approach to disability justice focuses on dismantling privilege; “We don’t want to simply join the ranks of the privileged; we want to dismantle those ranks and the systems that maintain them” (Mingus, 2011, para. 5) [10]

She is especially well-known for her work on 'collective access.' Collective access emphasizes how disability interacts with other aspects of an individual's identities, making disability justice activism necessarily intertwined with anti-racist, feminist, reproductive justice, queer, and prison abolitionist activism.[11] Emphasizing solidarity between movements, collective access focuses on community-supported access and mutual independence instead of individualized specific accommodations.[11]

Mingus has given many keynote addresses at national events, including: the Femmes of Color Symposium in Oakland, CA in 2011,[12][13] Queer and Asian conference in 2013,[14] and Disability Intersectionality Summit in 2018.[15]

Accolades

Personal life

Mingus was born in Korea and adopted as an infant.[25] She is a transracial adoptee, raised by white parents and raised on St. Croix. Mingus is queer.[25]

References
  1. "20 Queer People of Color You Should Know". OutSmart Magazine. May 1, 2014.
  2. "Seeing in the Dark: Fighting against ableism". The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc.
  3. "Mia Mingus". Woodhull Freedom Foundation.
  4. "Mia Mingus | QPOC Affinity Resources". campuspress.yale.edu.
  5. Nahmad, Erica (January 28, 2019). "13 Reasons Why Mia Mingus is the Kind of Feminist Everyone Loves".
  6. Grace, Ellen (January 28, 2020). "The task of mental health".
  7. Nugent, Molly. "Civic Nation BrandVoice: Access Is More Than Just Inclusion". Forbes.
  8. "A Performance Festival by and for Disabled Artists". Hyperallergic. May 9, 2019.
  9. Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, Elisabeth Harrison, Kirsty Liddiard & Manuela Ferrari (2015) Project Re•Vision: disability at the edges of representation, Disability & Society, 30:4, 513-527, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1037950
  10. Andrews, E. E., Forber-Pratt, A., Mona, L. R., Lund, E. M., Pilarski, C. R., & Balter, R. (2019). #SaytheWord: A disability culture commentary on the erasure of “disability”. Rehabilitation Psychology, 64(2), 111-118. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1037/rep0000258
  11. Kumbier, A., & Starkey, J. (2016). Access is not problem solving: Disability justice and libraries. Library Trends, 64(3), 468-491. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1353/lib.2016.0004
  12. "Oakland Hosts BUTCH Voices and Femmes of Color Symposium National Gatherings This Weekend". GLAAD. September 14, 2011.
  13. "Femmes of Color 2011, Keynote by Mia Mingus". August 25, 2011.
  14. "Feminists We Love: Mia Mingus – The Feminist Wire". Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  15. "2018 Keynote Bios". disummit.
  16. "An introduction to five incredible women of color feminists you need to know". HelloGiggles.
  17. Apr 15, Project Q. Atlanta; Am, 2010 | 10:29. "Two Atlantans named to glossy's '40 Under 40'". Project Q.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. "Forty Under 40". www.advocate.com. April 7, 2010.
  19. "AAPI Women". The White House.
  20. "Five California Asian American women recognized by White House as "Champions of Change"". cafwd.org.
  21. "Wanting More and Finding Disability Justice". whitehouse.gov. May 13, 2013.
  22. "An Interview with Mia Mingus, Oakland Champion of Change, on transformative justice". July 10, 2013.
  23. Long, Kat; Collins, rew; Frances, Jacqueline (June 14, 2013). "100 Women We Love: Mia Mingus". GO Magazine.
  24. "Disability Futures Fellows". Ford Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  25. ALOK. "Why Ugliness Is Vital in the Age of Social Media". them. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
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