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Crip Crash Course- Sins Invalid
New to disability justice? You're in the right place! Welcome to your three day Crip Crash Course! We'll cover the basics so you have a clear understanding of disability justice.
What is disability justice? - Sins Invalid
Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. This is their updated framing on disability justice and explains some basic history of the movement.
10 Principles of disability justice - Sins Invalid
Sins Invalid “incubates the framework and practice of disability justice.” They have compiled ten principles of
this framework, each offering opportunities for movement building
Written in 2015, this document by leader, Patty Berne, dives into the disability justice framework by outlining its early history, how it tends to operate, and what values are at its core
To Hold the Grief & the Growth1: On Crip Ecologies - Kay Ulanday Barrett
This prose essay by Ulanday Barrett explicates the ideas/practices of crip ecologies and disability justice. They use Patty Berne’s framework of disability justice as an outline and then expand to explain both why those tenants are so vital and the way they come to life in practice.
Crip News - Kevin Gotkin
A weekly roundup of links about disability arts, culture, and politics, which includes “ideas, techniques, dramas, and excitement that is relevant to anyone working to advance whatever might or might not already be called disability arts and politics.” Subscribe or peruse the archive.
The learning resources archive - compiled by Hyp-Access
Hyp-Access is a partnership between Hypermobile crip creators, Laura Tuthall (she, they) and Audre Wirtanen (she, her). They are disabled community organizers, care access advocates, artists, researchers, and the co-developers of ABNR. This page is filled with people to follow, articles and books to read, podcasts to listen to, and more.
Disability Justice is an Essential Part of Abolishing Police and Prisons - Talia “TL” Lewis
This article outlines how ableism is a form of systemic oppression often neglected by social justice movements despite its deep-rooted intersections with other systems of oppression, including policing and incarceration. Namly, Lewis explicates how “disability justice is a requisite for abolition because carceral systems medicalize, pathologize, criminalize, and commodify survival, divergence, and resistance” and the vital difference between disability right and disability justice in the context of abolition. This document contains notes from SPEAK OUT, a talk by Talia Lewis on Ableism that also delves into different models of disability, disability rights vs justice, a brief history of ableism, and some advice for educators.
How Disabled Mutual Aid is Different than Abled Mutual Aid - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
In this article, Piepzna-Samarashinha describes their experience as a disabled person during COVID-19, the rise of mutual aid during the pandemic, and that the reasons why abled and disabled mutual aid are different is key to understanding the failures of abled mutual aid.
Leaving Evidence - A blog by Mia Mingus
Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a queer physically disabled korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. Her blog includes articles such as “The Four Parts of Accountability” and ““Disability Justice” is Simply Another Term for Love.”
Life (Un)Worthy of Life: A Queer Dis/Crip Talk Show - Perel and Kenny Fries
Carrie Sandahl, co-director of Bodies of Work: A Network of Disability Art and Culture, gathered 11 Chicago disability activists, scholars, and artists to talk with multidisciplinary artist Perel and writer Kenny Fries about Akiton T4 – the Nazi program that deemed people with disabilities “unworthy of life” and mass-murdered 70,000 of them, – and its resonance during COVID-19.
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