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Introduction
Introduction
What does a world look like where disabled people don't just survive, but thrive? Where our ways of being aren't just accommodated, but celebrated as essential to human diversity? This final module asks us to dream beyond current limitations and imagine radical futures built from disability justice principles. We explore speculative design, crip futurism, and concrete strategies for building the liberated world we deserve.
Learning Intentions: Envision liberated disabled futures, develop concrete strategies for world-building, create action plans for sustained resistance, and practice speculative imagination
Content
Content
Core Content (Essential Reading/Viewing)
Core Content (Essential Reading/Viewing)
Moving Feminist Disability Studies into the Crip Future - Alison Kafer - Feminist, Queer, Crip
Imagining Accessibility: Theorizing Disability in Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction - Matthew Holder - Disability Studies Quarterly
To Imagine Disability Otherwise—Linda Ware—TEDxSUNYGeneseo - TEDx Talks
Disability Justice and Abolition - Elliott Fukui - TransformHarm.org
Supplementary Content
Supplementary Content
Speculative Imagination:
SCI-FI/Fantasy Books with Disability Masterlist - Kit - Metaphors and Moonlight
Queer Time, Crip Time, and Subverting Temporal Norms - Meredith Farkas - Information Wants to Be Free
Crip Bits: Disability Justice, Liberation, and Bodies - Sin Invalid
World-Building:
Intersections of Disability Justice and Transformative Justice - Barnard Center for Research on Women
Climate Justice for All, Including the Disability Community - Nicole Howard - ClimateXChange
Envisioning Disabled and Just Futures—Mutual Aid as an Adaptive Strategy for Environmental Change and Ecological Disablement - Rachel G. McKane et al. - Patrick Trent Griener
Action Planning:
Our Model: Theory of Change & 5-year Strategic Plan - Disability Rights Fund
Why is Collective Care a Radical Act of Resistance? - Sustainability Directory
How to Foster Meaningful Connections with Disability Advocates and Organizations - Disability & Philanthropy Forum
Reflection & Engagement Options
Reflection & Engagement Options
Journal Prompts
Journal Prompts
Close your eyes and imagine a world where disabled people are truly free. What do you see? What does daily life look like?
What legacy do you want to leave for future disabled people? How do you want to contribute to liberation movements?
What would you do if you knew disability liberation was possible in your lifetime?
How has learning about disability justice changed you? What will you do with this knowledge?
Discussion Questions for Learning Communities
What would society look like if it were designed by and for disabled people from the beginning?
How do current s need to change to include disabled people and disability analysis truly?
What role do hope and imagination play in liberation movements? How do we balance vision with material organizing?
What concrete steps can we take individually and collectively to move toward disability liberation?
Creative & Artistic Engagement
Visual Arts:
Create artwork envisioning liberated disabled futures
Design accessible cities, buildings, and public spaces of the future
Make visual timelines showing paths from current reality to liberation
Performance & Movement:
Create performances set in liberated disabled futures
Develop a community theater about transformation and world-building
Write and perform pieces about disabled joy and celebration
Music & Sound:
Write anthems for disability liberation and disabled futures
Create audio stories set in worlds built for disabled people
Design soundscapes of accessible and liberated communities
Digital & Tech:
Build virtual reality experiences of accessible futures
Create interactive timelines of disability liberation
Design apps that help communities plan for liberation
Community Art:
Organize community visioning sessions for disabled futures
Create collaborative murals about transformation and liberation
Start community projects that prefigure the world we're building
Writing & Documentation:
Write speculative fiction about liberated disabled futures
Create manifestos for disability liberation
Document current prefigurative projects and community experiments
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