10 Principles of Disability Justice

from: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice

image caption: poster with many different fonts with the following points INTERSECTIONALITY, LEADERSHIP OF THOSE MOST IMPACTED, ANTI-CAPITALIST POLITIC, COMMITMENT TO CROSS-MOVEMENT ORGANIZING, RECOGNIZING WHOLENESS, SUSTAINABILITY, COMMITMENT TO CROSS-DISABILITY SOLIDARITY, INTERDEPENDENCE, COLLECTIVE ACCESS, COLLECTIVE LIBERATION

image caption: this poster is an expansion on the first with the text which read below

• 1 INTERSECTIONALITY “We do not live single issue lives” –Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world “invalid.”
• 2 LEADERSHIP OF THOSE MOST IMPACTED “We are led by those who most know these systems.” –Aurora Levins Morales
• 3 ANTI-CAPITALIST POLITIC In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds.
• 4 COMMITMENT TO CROSS-MOVEMENT ORGANIZING Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance.
• 5 RECOGNIZING WHOLENESS People have inherent worth outside of commodity relations and capitalist notions of productivity. Each person is full of history and life experience.
• 6 SUSTAINABILITY We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term. Our embodied experiences guide us toward ongoing justice and liberation.
• 7 COMMITMENT TO CROSS-DISABILITY SOLIDARITY We honor the insights and participation of all of our community members, knowing that isolation undermines collective liberation.
• 8 INTERDEPENDENCE We meet each others’ needs as we build toward liberation, knowing that state solutions inevitably extend into further control over lives.
• 9 COLLECTIVE ACCESS As brown, black and queer-bodied disabled people we bring flexibility and creative nuance that go beyond able-bodied/minded normativity, to be in community with each other.
• 10 COLLECTIVE LIBERATION No body or mind can be left behind – only mobbing together can we accomplish the revolution we require.

tags: #justice #disability

@Taeyoon Choi i recognise many of these principles emerging in your work. Also yours @Laniyuk.