Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to “Move On” From COVID
There must be support for disabled activists who are doing lifesaving disabled activism, mutual aid and survival work.
Disability Justice
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
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Practicing Inclusion in the Time of COVID — Strategies for High Impact (S4HI)
High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus
Since March 2020 I have been collecting strands of disabled wisdom about the pandemic and trying to gather, weave, and share them. Disabled, fat, older, poor, immunocompromised, and chronically ill…
Navigating Disability Justice: Addressing Long Covid & Health Inequities | NIWRC
This webinar will reflect on the intersections of disability justice, offer community navigational knowledge, and help us think of the ways in which we can build a more equitable future within the contexts of health decline and pandemics.
Working Definition of Ableism - January 2022 Update
Non/responses to the pandemic have painfully and chillingly illustrated how people, systems, society, etc., use purported "fitness/health/wellness," as well as age, location, and other factors to...
Changing the Framework: Disability Justice
How our communities can move beyond access to wholeness Written for the RESIST Newsletter, November, 2010.
10 Principles of Disablity Justice: Sins Invalid
Disability Justice: A Working Draft by Patty Berne
Political Uses of Mental Health Laws in the U.S. and Canada Today
On Thursday, December 7, IDHA hosted a community event that explored how we define and understand “political” uses of psychiatric detention and commitment po...
Decarcerating Care: The Pathologizing of Resistance
On Thursday, April 25, 2024, IDHA hosted a community discussion that explored how the mental health industrial complex has pathologized acts of resistance th...
Mia Mingus on Disability Justice - Interview
"An important piece of Disability Justice is that we’re not just doing access for the sake of access, that we’re not just doing access for assimilation, and we’re not just fighting to get access to the horrible system, current system that we have, but that we’re doing access that moves us beyond just access towards the world that we actually want – access for the sake of justice and liberation, access for the sake of deeper connection and breaking isolation. To me, that is what is so liberatory about a Disability Justice framework, and that we use access as a tool to help us get to the world that we want."
Feeling the Weight: Some Beginning Notes on Disability, Access and Love
This essay was originally published in Issue Ten of Makeshift Magazine. This is a beginning; a dive into waters that I swim every day, but have been taught not to speak about. I struggle with how …
Who Belongs? With Imani Barbarin | #OBConf24
A talk on the interdependence of disability justice and belonging, featuring Imani Barbarin. Recorded April 25, 2024.
Beyond Disability Rights; Disability Justice: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Safety: every law enforcement officer and every politician tells us that they're for it. And yet for many, police are a problem in their communities, and today's policies are only making things worse. If what we're doing isn't the answer. What is? We explore this issue, and what we all need to learn from the disability justice movement, with this week's guest.
Access Intimacy: The Missing Link
Access intimacy is that elusive, hard to describe feeling when someone else “gets” your access needs. The kind of eerie comfort that your disabled self feels with someone on a purely access level. Sometimes it can happen with complete strangers, disabled or not, or sometimes it can be built over years. It could also be the way your body relaxes and opens up with someone when all your access needs are being met. It is not dependent on someone having a political understanding of disability, ableism or access. Some of the people I have experienced the deepest access intimacy with (especially able bodied people) have had no education or exposure to a political understanding of disability.
Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool for workers | ACED - Accommodating and Communicating about Episodic Disability
The Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT) provides workers experiencing episodic conditions with practical support and accommodation ideas that are relevant to their job demands. It was developed and tested by research experts, people living with disabilities, community groups and workplace organizations.
A to Z of Disabilities and Accommodations | Job Accommodation Network