Learning Engagement: Dismantling Ableism
“It’s not about self-care—it’s about collective care. Collective care means shifting our organizations to be ones where people feel fine if they get sick, cry, have needs, start late because the bus broke down, move slower, ones where there’s food at meetings, people work from home—and these aren’t things we apologize for. It is the way we do the work, which centers disabled-femme-of-color ways of being in the world, where many of us have often worked from our sickbeds, our kid beds, or our too-crazy-to-go-out-today beds. Where we actually care for each other and don’t leave each other behind. Which is what we started with, right?”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
We have designed this learning engagement to create a shared space for dialogue to learn more about:
Understanding the Ableism
Addressing assumptions about IPV/Sexual violence and Ableism
Reframing our advocacy through intersectional anti-oppression harm reduction and collective community responses
Framing Disability Justice in Advocacy
Discussing strategies for accountability and support survivors while holding ourselves accountable for ableism actions.