Intersectional Readings and Media Resources for Imagining Better Futures

Note from the editor: 

Hello! My name is Aabha Chindarkar and I am a Sociology and Film and Media student. I helped create The Yellow House Intersectional Readings and Media Resources for Imagining Better Futures this summer. As a Queer person of Colour, I have found academia woefully inadequate in dealing with addressing the issues and oppressions that affect marginalized communities in this country and in North America.

As a Sociology student, I have spent countless hours reading about institutions, systems, and how they influence the society around us, but there is a glaring lack of attention paid to how these systems were only made to benefit certain populations, while harming others.

Dissatisfied with these perspectives I decided to find my own readings and research methods that dealt with marginalized people and their realities. Reading these theories and papers helped me understand myself and the society around me better, they gave me the voice and the words to talk about my own life and experiences.

The experiences of marginalized people are often hidden, not valued, and not given the same time and care, especially in academic spaces, so this readings and media list aims to highlight marginalized experiences and foster community.

The resource list hopes to introduce you to a wealth of marginalized perspectives and also provide tools that can help facilitate discussions about the readings and media showcased. I encourage you to start your own reading group and reflect on any of these readings together. I hope this list supports community building and empowers folks to imagine better futures.