Meet The QCC Crew: Vincent La

Name: Vincent La
Major: Biochemistry
Year: 4th

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"I believe this conference is one of the major rally points where those that want to get involved and those that are currently in the struggle for Queer People of Color visibility can meet and discuss ways to empower each other and essentially combat the social struggle it is to be a Queer Person of Color. More can be read here."

Definition, Deconstruction, and Empowerment

By Vincent La
Co-Chair of the Queer People of Color Conference

Decolonization is to deconstruct our own identities and to forge leadership that reverberates throughout our different communities. Individuals obsess over the definition instead of the issue at hand and that in my opinion is what keeps progressive movements from pushing forward into leaps and bounds. We must not focus on our own personal oppressions but choose to work to our strengths to empower each other. Definitionalism is a damaging style of intellectual inquiry based on perverse, fetishistic involvement with definition. We are our worst oppressors.