Disability Justice and Liberation w/ Lateef McLeod

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 11 August 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Lateef McLeod is building his career as a scholar and an author. He has earned a BA in English from UC Berkeley and a MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. He is now a student in the Anthropology and Social Change Doctoral program at California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco. He published his first poetry book entitled A Declaration Of A Body Of Love in 2010 chronicling his life as a black man with a disability and tackling various topics on family, dating, religion, spirituality, his national heritage and sexuality. He currently is writing a novel tentatively entitled The Third Eye Is Crying. He was in the 2007 annual theater performance of Sins Invalid and also their artist-in-residence performance in 2011 entitled Residence Alien. He currently completing another poetry book entitled Whispers of Krip Love, Shouts of Krip Revolution. Some of his recent community service work includes being the co-chair of the Persons with Disabilities Ministry at Allen Temple Baptist Church and being the chair of the Lead committee and executive board member of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

More of his writings, as well as contact info for Lateef, are available on
his website: www.Lateefhmcleod.com

Also, here is his Huffington Post blog:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lateef-mcleod/

Listen to and support Lateef's music here: https://soundcloud.com/lateef-mcleod

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:10.6	On your host Anne Comrade, Bred O'Shea, and today we have on L'Itif McLeod to talk about
0:14.8	disability justice and the intersections of race, disability, and capitalism.
0:19.8	I'm really excited about this interview.
0:22.0	It's the first of its type that we've ever done here on RevLeft Radio.
0:25.8	It is going to be a shorter episode based on L'Itif having cerebral palsy.
0:29.7	He had to type out the answers to the questions beforehand.
0:32.8	I wasn't sure how long that was going to take, but it's a very interesting shorter episode
0:37.6	and I'm very very proud to put it out.
0:39.8	I hope people take this episode seriously and internalize it and incorporate some of its
0:44.4	lessons into their organizing efforts.
0:46.7	And at the very end of this episode, the song is by our guest L'Itif and it is called
0:52.1	I Am a Worker.
0:53.1	We'll link to his soundcloud in the show notes as well so people can go check him out.
0:57.4	He also mentions that on August 18th in the Bay Area, there's going to be a disability
1:02.5	resource fair.
1:04.2	People who are interested in that go ahead and Google it, look it up or reach out to L'Itif.
1:07.9	And finally, if you enjoy Revolutionary Left Radio and you'd like to support us, you can
1:11.3	always go to patreon.com forward slash RevLeft Radio.
1:14.9	There's bonus content I put out a Q&A episode for patrons every month and we also release
1:21.2	episodes early on our Patreon and sometimes we have interviews that you can't find anywhere
1:25.4	else exclusively for those who donate their hard earned money to keep Revolutionary Left
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