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Today you can make a commitment to reading up on disability justice for #IDPWD. I'm going to share lots of resources below, written by disabled people. So much love and energy is poured into theses resources!
First up, read this introduction to the @DisabledQBIPOC.
"We want to give readers an insight of what it means to live at these incredibly complex politicised intersections, especially during the pandemic." https://footscrayarts.com/disabled-qbipoc-collective/?fbclid=IwAR0XHtGmJQ4roNbG64bPW_m5G9QQyQ8fI5H0V150zOpdf3-rWqPHxWWXD5U
"We want to give readers an insight of what it means to live at these incredibly complex politicised intersections, especially during the pandemic." https://footscrayarts.com/disabled-qbipoc-collective/?fbclid=IwAR0XHtGmJQ4roNbG64bPW_m5G9QQyQ8fI5H0V150zOpdf3-rWqPHxWWXD5U
Disability justice continues to grow from the work of groups like @sinsinvalid - a disability justice performance project that centres people of colour, queers, nonbinary and trans people with disabilities.
Read the 10 Principles of Disability Justice
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bed3674f8370ad8c02efd9a/t/5e8ad308a6d99b3f78ee7a3f/1586156298695/Sins_Invalid_10-PRINCIPLES.pdf
Read the 10 Principles of Disability Justice
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bed3674f8370ad8c02efd9a/t/5e8ad308a6d99b3f78ee7a3f/1586156298695/Sins_Invalid_10-PRINCIPLES.pdf
Sins Invalid's Disability Justice Primer Skin, Tooth and Bone is critical reading, with many brilliant essays by disabled people. You can buy here: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/disability-justice-primer
And if you can't afford to pay for this, read for free here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FO-lgcDbDFgjWbCq2TSnPIyyets4BvAB/view?usp=sharing
And if you can't afford to pay for this, read for free here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FO-lgcDbDFgjWbCq2TSnPIyyets4BvAB/view?usp=sharing
Disability justice is a political framework that is firmly anti-capitalist. Read this wonderful essay by Marta Russell, who was a disabled historian and thinker. It explores the exploitation of disabled bodies under capitalism
https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5784/2680
https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5784/2680
Disability justice is grounded in abolitionist thought. It's committed to reimagining different ways of caring for & keeping each other accountable that aren't based in carceral logics!
@AbolitionDJ have some wonderful resources on cripping abolition: https://abolitionanddisabilityjustice.com/
@AbolitionDJ have some wonderful resources on cripping abolition: https://abolitionanddisabilityjustice.com/
Speaking of abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe has written a fantastic book called Decarcerating Disability. It's a phenomenal read, and shows that abolition is possible - disabled people have done it before when fighting against institutionalisation.
Read here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTQ9MjG6IWbyKHOAFYJdaz1nHOpsFYBt/view?usp=sharing
Read here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTQ9MjG6IWbyKHOAFYJdaz1nHOpsFYBt/view?usp=sharing
Disability is INTRINSICALLY linked to race. Think about eugenics, incarceration & how disabling colonisation is!
There are many amazing disabled Blackfullas speaking up. Listen to Jane Rosengrave, a Yorta Yorta woman with an intellectual disability: http://www.thewag.com.au/event/presentation-forum-free-bird-disability-indigenous-institutional-abuse
There are many amazing disabled Blackfullas speaking up. Listen to Jane Rosengrave, a Yorta Yorta woman with an intellectual disability: http://www.thewag.com.au/event/presentation-forum-free-bird-disability-indigenous-institutional-abuse
For @3CR's Imagining disability justice program, @elena_pungenna has put together an incredible show - Mob Dreaming Up: Yarning Sick, Disabled Realities. Featuring @ni_ruh, @haveachattabs and some other mob not on twitter.
Make sure to tune in at 10am! https://www.3cr.org.au/streaming
Make sure to tune in at 10am! https://www.3cr.org.au/streaming
There are strong Black disabled voices across the oceans you need to listen to as well. Here Leroy Moore, founder of @kriphopnation, talks about Disability Rights in Black 2020. Leroy's work is firmly rooted in a disability justice framework! https://www.ndrn.org/resource/drib2020-leroy-moore/
Disability justice is concerned with climate justice. We know that when ecosystems collapse, disabled people are some of the first to suffer and die.
@bluntshovels has written an amazing article calling for climate justice for disabled people https://www.croakey.org/calling-for-climate-justice-for-disabled-people/
@bluntshovels has written an amazing article calling for climate justice for disabled people https://www.croakey.org/calling-for-climate-justice-for-disabled-people/
Patty Berne & Vanessa Raditz have also drawn these links, writing that to survive climate catastrophe, disabled people must be listened to! https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2019/07/31/climate-change-queer-disabled-organizers/?fbclid=IwAR0ZAbYFj1Scp12Qv5qkGD9ASFkJPA3aZrB4U6toKbQiD_7slXih3eLd2K8
You can listen to the amazing @cubbieberry and others on Climate Change, Disability and Storytelling here: https://www.wheelercentre.com/events/leading-the-charge-climate-change-disability-and-storytelling?fbclid=IwAR1pYpdZ8czoxRny7sBdNiiBrBuDZW2YoZa20wP3qu2hsRuQcy88U--aM2c
Okay, I'm getting tired haha. And that's something I think about a lot as a disabled person. My relationship to time is very different now. This is a great read on the value of 'crip time', discarding notions of productivity and guilt: https://www.firstpost.com/living/the-value-of-crip-time-discarding-notions-of-productivity-and-guilt-to-listen-to-the-rhythms-of-our-bodies-8440551.html
Here is a list of lots of different disability justice readings from @KrysMendez88: https://krysmendez.com/
And finally, one of the best readings lists on disability and disability justice I've come across - the Access is Love list of readings and resources. This is a list compiled by Sandy Ho, @miamingus and @SFdirewolf for the #AccessIsLove project. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TY9k_S0oLUVXEhI1FdmT8yaG_28cbcBStuyM9wXag6k/edit?usp=sharing
