Nothing About Us Without Us: A platform to discuss cultures, controversies, and dreams for justice and ‘allyship’ from individual perspectives to further cross-disability solidarity and challenge a Disability Essentialism. A 60 minute workshop at SDS with Deanna Yadollahi and Claudia Alick

This 60 minute workshop provides a platform to discuss cultures, controversies, and dreams for justice and “allyship”. The purpose of this workshop is to further cross-disability solidarity and challenge a Disability Essentialism.

Please feel free to access the script for this workshop before, during, and after the workshop. Please review the 10 principles of Disability Justice before the session.

SDS@OSU 2021 CONFERENCE

This is the fourth year that SDS has co-conferenced with The Ohio State University’s Multiple Perspectives Conference.

DEEP SIGH: (Re)Centering Activism, Healing, Radical Love, Emotional Connection and Breathing Spaces in Intersectional Communities

During these turbulent times of racial injustice and disappointing leadership(s), amplified by the current pandemic and climate crisis, the world is (has been, and continues to be) hurting, while some have been thriving at the expense of ‘others’. Right now, we need to take a step back and listen and learn from those who are members of some of the most vulnerable communities, in particular historically multiply marginalized communities. Pain, trauma, and vulnerability manifest in a myriad of ways. Rather than sweeping these issues under the rug, we want to invite folks to breathe for a moment and take space/time to (re)connect with their surroundings and with each other, while becoming attuned to the aches, tightness, and tweaks that our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energies convey.

This is a moment for a deep sigh, a moment of “I am present,” a moment of becoming aware of how much wear and tear our mind, body, and spirit have embodied, toiled over, especially in the past several months of “what just happened?!”