ORAD Intersectionality & AGM Weekend

Please pre-register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/135sg3WTQcdJP2HiJtxcLRr7lYh_v2i_gy85USSe3PhI/viewform - thanks! Friday 6:30 PM – 9 PM: Taking out the COLON from Colonization & replacing it with “REAL” into REALIZATION of our Colonial Language https://www.facebook.com/events/718394348187434/ 9 PM – 1 AM : ORAD Social: Ram in the Rye https://www.facebook.com/events/646560448701233/ Saturday 11 AM – 2 PM : ORAD AGM https://www.facebook.com/events/510988852323984/ 2 PM – 6 PM : “The Division of the Deaf/Signing Community Part 1” - Who’s Who in the Deaf Community - Their Society through their lenses Part 1 https://www.facebook.com/events/1383978985169641/ 6PM: ORAD SOCIAL – DINNER SOCIAL. Elephant & Castle https://www.facebook.com/events/670778366268049/ Sunday 10 AM – 3 PM (Permitting 1 hour for lunch) “The Division of the Deaf/Signing Community Part 2” - Their Society through their lenses Part 2 - Decolonizing - Affirming Allyhood/Activism for All. https://www.facebook.com/events/363150673817824/ Presenters' Biographical Information Stephanie D. Johnson ( Najma Love) was born in Buffalo, NY. As a Black Deaf Blind Pan-Queer womanist, she began to understand the need for all communities about multiple identities and why each identities are equally important. She received a Bachelors degree in Deaf Studies and will be graduating in May 2014 with Masters in Mental Health counseling from Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. She began her community work and activism in the in the Black and Brown communities and the Black and Brown Deaf community in Atlanta, Georgia in 2001 where she worked in eh following capacities: women health, Breast Cancer services accessibilities, Muslim women, child care accessibility, HIV/AIDS and poverty awareness. That's when intersectionality became the source of her motivation in becoming a better activist. She started becoming member of several organizations in hopes to bridge communities together. Stephanie returned back to Washington, DC in 2008 to focus on social issues as sexism, audism, vidaudism, racism, cissexism, religion domination, ageism, ableism and classism that impacts people of all identities. In addition, she hopes to continue to further the understanding of how racial identity and deaf identity develops a person’s identity and awareness, especially the ones that were educated in the residential school settings. Enthusiasm does not describe Stephanie's attitude toward the communities. She hopes to further her education specializing Social Justice therapy for Deaf /Signing and hearing people of who experiences trauma but unable to received sufficient services because of the intersections of being Deaf, Deaf Blind, Hard of hearing and other identities. Stephanie is also the co founder of Take A Stand! (TAS!), Take A Stand, a Deaf/signing based organization that aims to make changes through social justice activism in our Deaf /Signing community, to rekindle the Deaf/signing community by recognizing the intersections of each Deaf, Deaf Blind and Hard of hearing people of all identities, understanding the history of violence, injustice and creating and maintaining safe space for everyone and us. Inaan of the Somali refudgees who fled the Al-Shabaab interruption in his original homeland, Nur Abdulle was born in Montréal, Québec and raised in Toronto, Ontario. Nur is a Black Deaf Queer Femme African who brings radiant darkness out of insidious lightness for decolonial love, individual and community empowerment, and activism. In May 2014, Nur will be graduating from Gallaudet University in Washington, DC with a bachelor’s degree in Deaf Studies. Nur is a work in progress in decolonizing his beautiful and phenomenal mind, and is constantly unpacking, unlearning and relearning. Such processes have led him to revitalize his darkness, and to resist the oppressions that occur on the stolen lands of the U.S. and Canada. These experiences has led him to truly embrace intersectionality and to recognize the need to address femmephobioa, non-genderphobia, sexism, audism, vidaudism, racism, heterosexism, cissexism, religion domination, ageism, ableism and classism that impacts Deaf, Deaf Blind, Deaf Disabled, and Hard of Hearing people of all identities. Nur's work has taken on a different approach of addressing things via social media and challenging the Ivory Towers participants of academia. Nur believes in doing collaboration work with other fellow activists and community builders is the best way to decolonize our minds and our communities. Nur is a proud contributing member of Take A Stand, a Deaf/Signing based organization that aims to: make changes through social justice activism in our Deaf/Signing community, rekindle the Deaf/signing community by recognizing the intersections of Deaf, Deaf Blind, Deaf Disabled, and Hard of Hearing people of all identities, understand the history of violence, injustice, and to create and maintain safe space for all groups.