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Ep 12: Advocacy, Intersectionality & Mental Health

Alice Wong
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Today’s episode is on advocacy, intersectionality & mental health with Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán, Director of the Trans/Gender Nonconforming Justice Project and the Disability Justice Project at the National LGBTQ Task Force. Victoria and Alice have a conversation about social justice, the politics of hypervisibility, the toxic aspects of activism, transgender mental health, and healthcare discrimination, and more.

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Related Links

National LGBTQ Task Force

Trans Lifeline

National Transgender Discrimination Survey (2010)

 

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Image description: Black and white frontal headshot picture of a Latina woman in her mid to late 20s. She is smiling, has eyeglasses and is wearing a white shirt with a black blazer. In her lapel she is wearing a pin with the logo of the National LGBTQ Task Force, and a brooch in the shape of an owl.

Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán

Victoria is the Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project Director at the National LGBTQ Task Force. Particular areas of expertise and focus are the intersections of issues affecting transgender people with disabilities and mental illness, anti- trans workplace discrimination and gun violence prevention from a social justice lens. She has been in trans advocacy the entirety of her adult life, including advocacy in Puerto Rico and in Maine. She is the author of “Valuing Transgender Applicants and Employees”, a gold-standard best practices guide for employers, and frequently speaks on discrimination issues impacting the trans community. She was named the Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s 2016 Ally of the Year Award and has been profiled in NBC News and Latina Magazine, among other outlets. Prior to joining the Task Force, she worked as an Equal Opportunity Specialist for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Civil Rights Center. Victoria holds a B.A. in Psychology with honors from the University of Puerto Rico, and a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. 

Source: http://www.thetaskforce.org/staff-bio-victoria-rodriguez-roldan-jd/

 

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Credits

Sarika D. Mehta, Audio Producer

Alice Wong, Writer, Producer, Interviewer

Cheryl Green, Text Transcript

Lateef McLeod, Introduction

Mike Mort, Artwork

Theme Music (used with permission of artist)

Song: “Dance Off”

Artist: Wheelchair Sports Camp

Music

Maximum Respect For You by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License).

Frisco Nights by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License).

Sage the Hunter by Blue Dot Sessions (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License)

Sounds

“VOCODER countdown” by Jack_Master. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.

“8 Bit Beeping Computer Sounds” by sheepfilms. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.

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