Please note that this event is now ONLINE. Join us to hear from Tina Dixson, who will share her practical experience in embedding intersectional approaches to programs and projects in the sector.
In the diverse and complex world of aid, development, and humanitarian work, we must understand the concept and importance of intersectionality and how people’s lives are shaped by their identities, relationships, and social factors. These create intersecting forms of privilege and oppression depending on a person’s context and existing power structures such as patriarchy, ableism, colonialism, imperialism, homophobia, and racism.
Intersectionality acknowledges that every individual has their own unique experiences of discrimination and oppression arising from multiple identities that intersect and interact with one another and can marginalise them – ethnicity, gender, race, class, marital or employment status, caste, religion, weight, location, physical appearance, sexual orientation, physical ability, etc.
Embracing intersectionality in the sector requires an understanding of how proposed projects and programs may deepen inequities, or lead to specific forms of marginalisation that are not captured by a single characteristic and finding intersectional approaches in policy-making and service delivery that increase stakeholder collaboration and are designed to improve equity and transform social structures.
As usual, the night will involve a relaxed chat facilitated by WiAD City leaders with questions to follow.
Everyone is welcome, so please share the event with your friends and colleagues.
Cost: $25 - Non-members, $10 - Students and unwaged, Free - Members of Women in Aid & Development
Tina Dixson
Tina (she/her) is queer feminist activist and PhD candidate working on the issues of violence against women and queer refugee women. Tina is a queer Ukrainian who sought asylum in Australia with her partner. Tina was involved with her partner in the establishment of the Forcibly Displaced People Network, the first Australian registered LGBTIQ+ refugee-led organisation working to ensure that LGBTIQ+ displaced people can achieve equitable settlement outcomes. Tina now works in social policy focusing on LGBTIQ+ communities.