Data Disaggregation for the Marginalized

I’m on the board of a theater company called <a href="https://kyoungspacificbeat.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Kyoung’s Pacific Beat</a> and at the end of 2023, Other No More started to transform from the name of a political campaign against the racist way AIDS data was being collected to a theatrical piece. When people were dying during the AIDS crisis but even in death they had been treated inhumanely and the crisis was being ignored by the government, I imagined the fact that you had to check off the box OTHER for surveillance data in those circumstances was just the last straw on the indignity for Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders. This campaign was started in New York City, that eventually reached Washington DC, where Native Americans got their own box in data, and Asians and Pacific Islanders got lumped together. At the first reading of the play Other No More, we had a chance to discuss what we watched afterwards, but we didn’t really have a chance to talk about the disaggregation itself. <a href="https://medium.com/sticky-rys-activism/data-disaggregation-for-the-marginalized-da8dbd2d5f3d">Read More</a>