Tag: disability justice

people working in an office

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.

Read More »
a diverse group of disabled people

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.

Read More »

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.

Read More »
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.

Read More »

CripCreate

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.

Read More »
audio recording equipment

Protocols for Crip Podcasting

The Critical Design Lab developed the following protocols for crip podcasting in the design of the Contra* podcast. This podcast focuses on disability, design justice, and the lifeworld.

Read More »
yes magazine cover art Rights and Justice: Disability Advocates Blazing Trails

Rights and Justice: Disability Advocates Blazing Trails

Judy Heumann seemed to be a bit taken aback by this. For clarity, from my mother’s perspective, litigation was not applicable. The so-called justice system is not just and was not built for or intended to work for those who are Black and Brown. Heumann nodded at this clarification and said that she understood, as her parents were Jewish immigrants and the thought of litigation or lawyers was foreign to them, too. But the movement for disabled rights was born out of looking at other movements, like the civil rights movement. “Rosa Parks sat on a bus, but nobody questioned whether you as a Black woman who is disabled could get on that bus. Those were the things that we were fighting for.”

Read More »