Jillian Nelson
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292 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Um, to acknowledge that we have needs, to acknowledge that we have the right to be in the same places that they are.
Um we talk a lot about
how the first pride was a riot and that we need to acknowledge like trans women and women of color because they were the ones that led that first movement at Stonewall.
But we don't talk a lot about the fact that
The the we
Those women, those women that fur threw the first bricks, they they would have also fallen under the neurodiverse umbrella.
They they were black trans women with disabilities.
And when we tell the story, we erase the piece of that story that involves disability.
Um
Because it's
For decades it hasn't been something that's been okay to identify.
But I think slowly but surely, at least here in Minnesota, we're bringing back that identity of disability and recognizing that the very, very foundation of
the queer community having civil rights, having freedom, having pride to celebrate.
was started by a person with a disability, by a person that would be at a table filled with people who are neurodiverse and
I think bringing those stories to the forefront is step one in really getting our community to engage.
Oh, um, it's
We have as a community, as a whole, both the queer community and the disability community, we have not been inclusive in terms of calling in our BIPOC community members.
Right.
We look at the history.
I mean, and even in our queer community, we still have very, very divided culture within like the white queer community and the BIPOC queer community.
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