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Heroes and Villains and Disability Future

Claudia Alick, a guest lecturer in Dr. Maya Dworsky-Rocha’s “Medicine, Body and Culture” class at Brandeis University on March 2, 2023, delivered a lecture on “Heroes and Villains and Disability Futures.” The lecture focused on Alick’s ideas on disability justice and cross movement solidarity. The topics covered included disabled rights vs. disabled justice, cross disability solidarity, ugly laws, how we identify as members of the disability community, crip theory, ableism, access intimacy, and disabled heroes and villains in fiction.

Access Rider

Access riders are documents that detail information about an individual’s access requirements. They can stop endless conversations about access by offering a considered and detailed list of what might be needed when, to enable employers, colleagues, and others to simply know how best to support someone without assumptions and guesswork. These articles introduce what an access rider is, where and how it can be used and what you might want to include in yours.

Disability Visibility

Calling Up Justice highly recommends the podcast Disability Visibility with Alice Wong: Disability Activist, Media Maker, Consultant. Alice Wong is a culture leader and we have collaborated on several projects. Disability Visibility featured conversations on disability politics, culture, and media.

A photo of the Resilience Journal publication- three journals sit on a counter, one of them is standing up. The cover has a gold stamp in the shape of the circular data visualization framework. There are colored pencils to the left of the journal and leafy potted plant in the background.

Yo-Yo Lin Resilience Journal

Calling Up Justice believes in the art of self-reflection and journaling for empowerment. This tool designed by Yo-Yo Lin uses the idea of data-tracking as an objective tool for holding space for illness. Yo-Yo Lin seeks for The Resilience Journal to be a self-reflection, advocacy, and community-building tool, residing on the shoulders of Disability Justice giants.

Care Work

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative “collective access”

ACCESSIBILITY CHECK-IN

Accessibility check-ins disrupt ableism in meeting culture. The majority of meeting systems, structures, and cultural norms are centered around the needs of abled, neurotypical participants. As a result, neurodiverse and people with disabilities
are prevented from fully participating. An accessibility check-in provides an opportunity at the beginning of a gathering for every participant to share what they need in order to bring their whole selves to the process. These check-ins play an important role in
developing an accessible workplace, establishing a culture of inclusion, as well as fully supporting individual participants. They are great for business, art, and education setting.

Dis/Rep Overview

The Dis/Rep project is a yearly series of virtual engagements focused on disability representation and accessibility that began in 2020. It utilizes a variety of formats, including book club-style discussions, a Discord server for asynchronous participation, web content, and remote engagement activities. The project is designed to be an anti-ableist, anti-racist, queer, and trans-positive space, centering the needs and voices of the disability community.

The Justice Producers Collaborative Project Narrative

The Justice Producers Collaborative connects members through monthly cultivation calls, a Discord channel for communication, and a line justice garden that contains links to all of the Collaborative’s projects. These cultivation calls are open to all who self-identify as justice producers and prioritize the perspectives and practices of marginalized communities, including BIPOC, disabled, queer, and trans communities. During these calls, members introduce themselves, share their justice practices and future projects, and discuss how their marginalized identities influence their work. They also explore how they want others to connect with their work.

a colorful crowd of people wearing masks

Mask Up Now!

wearing a mask during a triple pandemic is a crucial step that individuals can take to protect themselves and others from the spread of infectious diseases. By making spaces accessible to immunocompromised individuals and taking this simple preventive measure, we can help to slow the spread of COVID-19, RSV, and influenza and reduce the impact of these diseases on our communities.

Crip Create

CripCreate, A weekly online co-working space by and for all Deaf and Disabled people.
This is a Disability Justice-centered co-working space for all Disabled (sick, Disabled, Mad/mentally ill, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, low vision/blind, neurodiverse, or otherwise chronically ill) people.

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