Disabled people have always been at the forefront of movements for justice and freedom, building networks of care and solidarity, and creating social and cultural transformation. Disabled students organized to create the first disabled-run direct services center in Berkeley in the 1960's, bring the first Deaf president of the nation's only Deaf university in the 1980's, and create Disability Cultural Centers at a growing number of universities since the 1990's and peer-led, abolitionist, anticarceral support by/for neurodivergent and mad people. Come to this session to find solidarity, community, connection, and witness. You'll learn about histories of powerful disabled students' organizing and community building, gain tools for knowing and caring for ourselves and each other, and plant seeds for future connection, growth, and transformation.
Neurodivergent, crip, mad, sick, and disabled people are already present in colleges and universities. Yet pervasive ableism, reinforced and intersecting with other forms of systemic injustice and structural oppression, relegates us to the margins, keeps us outside the gates, and forces too many of us out. Disabled students, scholars, and community members are working constantly to challenge the narrative that we do not belong in the academy. Beyond inclusion and belonging, Disability Justice demands recognition and respect for disabled people's ways of knowing, being, learning, teaching, and relating. Disability Justice transcends frameworks of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and challenges us to incorporate multimodality, flexibility, fluidity, and interdependence into our pedagogies, technologies, classrooms, and communities.
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