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[CC] "Disability Justice work is .. new in the sense that we're building the shared political framework and shared language, so it's also a very exciting time." - Mia Mingus Disability Justice deals with the oppression of disability, but at the same time also deals with other systems of oppression and injustice - it is a 'multi-issue politic.' It moves beyond rights- and equality-based approaches, beyond access and inclusion in unjust systems, instead working towards collective justice and liberation, towards transforming society as a whole. This interview with Mia Mingus, one of the leading articulators of what Disability Justice is about, was done recently in Ottawa, where she gave two talks on 'Beyond Access: An Introduction to Disability Justice.' Interview transcript available at: http://equitableeducation.ca/2013/mia-mingus-disability-justice Interview by Greg Macdougall, http://EquitableEducation.ca for The Icarus Project, http://TheIcarusProject.net Mia Mingus' website: http://LeavingEvidence.wordpress.com

An American Studies Association 2020 Freedom Course Disability Justice, COVID, and Abolition In this panel, leading disability justice and abolitionist community organizers and thinkers - Mia Mingus, Talila "TL" Lewis, and Liat Ben-Moshe (moderated by Connie Wun)- discuss the importance of centering disability justice in addressing the ongoing public health crisis and abolition of the carceral state. What has and does centering disability justice, an inherently intersectional framework, under a pandemic mean? What are disability justice frameworks for abolition? And why are they necessary now? How do these frameworks help us to both challenge the current moment and build a different future? Informed by their decades of work and scholarship, they expand contemporary abolitionist discourses by examining the ubiquitousness of ableism and the need for disability justice and transformative justice across the entire carceral landscape. Panelists: Mia Mingus - Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) Talila "TL" Lewis - Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities (HEARD) Liat Ben-Moshe - Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois, Chicago Connie Wun - AAPI Women Lead Co-Sponsors: AAPI Women Lead and ASA Critical Disability Studies Caucus ASL Interpreters: Stephanie Chao, Tricia Vazquez

In PART 1, watch Sins Invalid Director Patty Berne and Bianca Laureano, MA, CSE, CSES talk about the history of the reproductive justice movement! This conversation was originally planned as episode 14 of our Facebook Live talk show, Crip Bits. Unfortunately, we had significant tech issues and could not continue with the live broadcast in June 2019. We are uploading this video because the conversation is rich and critical! This video is also part 1 of 4. Stay tuned for parts 2, 3, and 4! Content warning: selective abortion, rape, incest Learn more about Bianca Laureano and her excellent courses at: http://www.anteuppd.com/ Learn more about Sins Invalid at: sinsinvalid.org

November 18, 2020 Panel discussion with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Sami Schalk on crip justice today. In the face of ongoing police brutality against disabled Brown and Black queer and trans folks, how can we think about intersections of disability justice and #BlackLivesMatter? As the pandemic wears on, what are the care- and community-centered responses to COVID-19 and able-bodied white supremacy? What is the place of pleasure and desire in the long history of disability justice organizing? This panel discussion will explore disability justice approaches to working toward and imagining otherwise. Cosponsored by CLAGS and Wesleyan University’s Departments of American Studies; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Accessibility Services Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer, performance artist, freedom dreamer and disability and transformative justice worker of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Roma ascent. She is a Lambda Award-winning author or co-editor of 9 books, including, with Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement; Tonguebreaker; Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice; Bridge of Flowers; Bodymap; Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home; and The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. A lead artist with Sins Invalid since 2009, they are on the organizing team for the Disability and Intersectionality Summit and the 2020 winner of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Jean Cordoba Prize in Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction. Sami Schalk is an associate professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Her research focuses on disability, race and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. Schalk’s first book Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, & Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction (Duke UP 2018), explores how Black women writers use nonrealist genres to reimagine the possibilities and limits of body-minds, challenging our understanding of the meanings of disability, race and gender. Schalk’s next project focuses on disability politics and Black activism in the post civil rights era. She identifies as a fat black queer femme disabled cis gendered woman. She can be found on Twitter as @drsamischalk and on her website, samischalk.com.

This webinar is co-organized by the Disability Visibility Project and the Longmore Institute on Disability. Join us for a conversation about disability justice with Patty Berne, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong; moderated by Yomi Wrong. Patty and Leah are contributors in Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, a new anthology edited by Alice. Yomi Wrong is an Oakland-based consultant, activist and disability justice dreamer who formerly served as Executive Director of the Center for Independent Living. She currently works in healthcare compliance, where her role is to advance quality medical care for people with disabilities. Patty Berne is a Co-Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with disabilities. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled autistic nonbinary femme writer and disability/transformative justice worker, a descendent of many gardeners, psychics, teachers, border jumpers, people with a hustle, queer cousins and weirdo/neurodivergent people. To view the event transcript, https://www.dropbox.com/s/7l5oqm2ffgbhzkj/Disability%20Visbility%20Nov%207%20transcript.txt?dl=0

On Feb. 28, 2017, Lydia X. Z. Brown (they/them), past president of TASH New England, chairperson of the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council and a board member of the Autism Women’s Network, presented on inequities in health services for disabled people with an intersectional focus on race, sexual orientation and gender identity. They also explored potential tools for change, from policy and advocacy actions (e.g., strengthening regulations, trainings, education and building coalitions) to community empowerment (e.g., collecting data and stories, creating safe spaces and providing trainings—especially by disabled people of color, for disabled people of color).

Dance is much more than the movement of bodies — it's a mode of communication. For Antoine Hunter, a Bay Area artist, choreographer and activist who is also Black and deaf, dance helps him create community for all people who want to learn to fully express themselves. To learn more about the disability justice movement, visit: https://dohadebates.com/disabilityjustice/ To take action and join the fight for equality, follow @WorldEnabled and sign the Global Compact on Inclusive and Accessible Cities: www.cities4all.org This series aims to advance the mandate of the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility. ►► Subscribe & join the conversation: http://bit.ly/38fuJjZ ►► Subscribe to Course Correction: https://megaphone.link/QF2056074382 Don’t Settle for a Divided World. Think. Debate. Act. Let’s find solutions to the world's most pressing problems. Doha Debates examines the world's most pressing challenges through live debates, digital videos, a TV series, blogs and podcasts. This innovative approach includes Majlis-style conversations designed to bridge differences, build consensus and identify solutions to urgent global issues. ►► Follow us on Facebook: http://Facebook.com/DohaDebates ►► Follow us on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/DohaDebates

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AAWW is a national literary nonprofit dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. We host events in NYC and broadcast them here! Please support us by donating at https://aaww.org/donate so we can continue this work. You can also become a fanclub member and receive custom designed pins & stickers at https://aaww.org/fanclub/. Join us for a book launch and conversation for Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and disability justice poetics conversation with Leah and Cyree Jarelle Johnson. What the hell is disability justice? How do collective care, disability justice and sick and disabled Black and brown femmes save the world and each other during this time of apocalypse—or do we? What are the histories and present day struggles and triumphs of disabled Black and brown queers in our movements and communities? Come discuss these and other provocative questions with writer, cultural worker and performer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and poet and essayist Cyree Jarelle Johnson, and celebrate the launch of this long-awaited, beautiful new book. -- http://aaww.org http://facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop http://twitter.com/aaww AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans–in other words, we’re the preeminent organization dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. We’re building the Asian literary culture of tomorrow through our curatorial platform, which includes our New York events series and our online editorial initiatives. In a time when China and India are on the rise, when immigration is a vital electoral issue, when the detention of Muslim Americans is a matter of common practice, we believe Asian American literature is vital to interpret our post-multicultural but not post-racial age. Our curatorial take is intellectual and alternative, pop cultural and highbrow, warm and artistically innovative, and vested in New York City communities. Our curatorial platform is premised on the idea of a big-tent Asian American cultural pluralism. We’re interested in both the New York publishing industry and ethnic studies, the South Asian diasporic novel and the Asian American story of assimilation, high culture and pop culture, Lisa Lowe and Amar Chitra Katha, avant-garde poetry and spoken word, journalism and critical race theory, Midnight’s Children and Dictee. We are against both an exclusive literary culture that believes that race does not exist and Asian American narratives that lead to self-stereotyping and limit the menu of our identity. We are for inventing the future of Asian American literary culture. Named one of the top five Asian American groups nationally, covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Poets & Writers, we are a safe community space and an anti-racist counterculture, incubating new ideas and interpretations of what it means to be both an American and a global citizen.

This is the audio described (AD) version of this episode, provided for our blind and visually impaired followers. For the original version of the episode, please go to https://youtu.be/nf1MW7_f-vg (Recorded before Covid-19). In the first episode of our first season on national public TV, Laura interviews two performance artists whose work illustrates how difference and neurodiversity can make art and society richer and more equitable. Alice Sheppard is a disabled dancer/choreographer and the artistic director of the company Kinetic Light. Jess Thom is a performer and comedian with Tourettes and the founder of Touretteshero. In their conversations with Laura, they question our attitudes towards disability and explore how art can challenge our notions of the normative. Guests: Alice Sheppard is the Artistic Director of Kinetic Light, as well as a choreographer and dancer in the company. Jess Thom is a British performer, comedian and activist. Thom created Touretteshero to increase awareness of and expand perceptions of what is possible with Tourette’s Syndrome. SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter: www.lauraflanders.org/subscribe/ FOLLOW The Laura Flanders Show Twitter: @theLFshow Facebook: @theLFshow Instagram: @theLFshow ACCESSIBILITY This version of the episode is presented with audio description to increase accessibility for our blind and visually impaired audience. The original closed captioned version of this episode is available here: https://youtu.be/nf1MW7_f-vg. A transcript, related podcast, and visual description of this episode are available at www.lauraflanders.org/disability-justice. If you would like to request accessibility-related assistance, report any accessibility problems, or request any information in accessible alternative formats, please email: info@lauraflanders.org #DisabilityJustice #disability #art #dance #theater #equity #accessibility

Moderator: Dani McClain Plenarists: Loira Limbal, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Veralucia Mendoza We keep each other alive. Through mutual aid, through mothering, through the essential work of low-wage care providers and the care work of disabled kin for each other, Black and Brown communities have been honing the expertise to carry our world through the crisis of this pandemic to a future rooted in care. In particular, the femmes, the disabled, the queer and trans folks within our communities have done this labor and forged this genius. In this plenary conversation we will honor care work while resisting the urge to romanticize it. We will explore what needs to shift within our economy, political systems and our social justice movements to create the care-based world we need.

Disability justice is a social justice movement which focuses on examining disability and ableism as they relate to other forms of oppression and identity such as race, class and gender.[1] It was developed in 2005 by the Disability Justice Collective, a group including Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, Stacey Milbern, Leroy F. Moore Jr., and Eli Clare.[1] In disability justice, disability is not considered to be defined in "white terms, or male terms, or straight terms."[1] The movement also believes that ableism makes other forms of prejudice possible and that systems of oppression are intertwined.[1] The disability justice framework is being applied to a intersectional reexamination of a wide range of disability, human rights, and justice movements.[2][3][4][5]

The disability rights movement is a global[1][2][3] social movement that seeks to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities.

Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability," where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct.[1] This premise gave rise to two distinct models of disability: the social and medical models of disability. In 1999 the social model was universally accepted as the model preferred by the field.[2] However, in recent years, the division between the social and medical models has been challenged.[1][3] Additionally, there has been an increased focus on interdisciplinary research.[4] For example, recent investigations suggest using "cross-sectional markers of stratification"[5] may help provide new insights on the non-random distribution of risk factors capable of acerbating disablement processes.[clarification needed]

Invisible disabilities, also known as hidden disabilities or non-visible disabilities (NVD), are disabilities that are not immediately apparent, are typically chronic illnesses and conditions that significantly impair normal activities of daily living.

A disability-rights activist or disability-rights advocate is someone who works towards the equality of people with disabilities. Such a person is generally considered a member of the disability-rights movement and/or the independent-living movement.

This paper challenges the notion of “care”, arguing that people who need support in their daily lives have been constructed as “dependent people”. Instead, the author argues, if we want to empower pe...

History of Disability Justice (Source) The term disability justice was coined out of conversations between disabled queer women of color activists in 2005, including Patty Berne of Sins Invalid (and Mia Mingus & Stacy Milbern, who eventually united with Leroy Moore, Eli Clare, and Sebastian Margaret) seeking to challenge radical and progressive movements to more fully address ableism. "Disability Justice was built because the Disability Rights Movement and Disability Studies do not inherently centralize the needs and experiences of folks experiencing intersectional oppression, such as disabled people of color, immigrants with disabilities, queers with disabilities, trans and gender non-conforming people with disabilities, people with disabilities who are houseless, people with disabilities who are incarcerated, people with disabilities who have had their ancestral lands stolen, amongst others." (Source) Disability justice recognizes the intersecting legacies of white supremacy, colonial capitalism, gendered oppression and ableism in understanding how people's’ bodies and minds are labelled ‘deviant’, ‘unproductive’, ‘disposable’ and/or ‘invalid’.

The ongoing struggle by people with disabilities to gain full citizenship is an important part of our American heritage. The disability rights movement shares many similarities with other 20th-century civil rights struggles by those who have been denied equality, independence, autonomy, and full access to society. This exhibition looks at the efforts - far from over - of people with disabilities, and their families and friends, to secure the civil rights guaranteed to all Americans. These people only want to be treated the same as everyone else. So they often have to fight to be included.

Frédéric Mégret, The Disabilities Convention: Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities or Disability Rights?, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2 (May, 2008), pp. 494-516

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

In the past two decades Americans with a broad array of physical and mental disabilities have formed a social movement seeking rights for disabled people— the disability rights movement.

National Disability Employment Awareness Month In October, Americans observe National Disability Employment Awareness Month by paying tribute to the accomplishments of the men and women with disabilities whose work helps keep the nation’s economy strong and by reaffirming their commitment to ensure equal opportunity for all citizens.

May is National Mobility Awareness Month. Recognize the disability activists who have worked for inclusion of disabled persons in all aspects of society!