DISABILITY JUSTICE
SHOP TO SUPPORTKEY ISSUES
Dismantle systems that perpetuate ableism
Support neurodiverse folks and those with mental disturbances
Fight to transform mental health care system + society
Fight for self discrimination, opportunity, and equity for all disabled folks
Build and support community-based, grassroots, peer support services
Amplify the experiences of folks with lived experience across the disability spectrum
Fight to ensure access to voting, communications, public transit and affordable, integrated housing
Fight for accessability for all
THE MERCH
Proceeds benefit orgs fighting for disability rights.
“The revolution will be accessible or it’s no revolution at all.”
Mia Mingus
Writer & Educator
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
Immediate Actions To Take:+
- Call Your Reps to Support HR 3 to Reduce Prescription Drug Prices.
- Take These Actions provided by Anti-Racism Daily —
- Volunteer for Protest Access, a volunteer collective focused on Black Lives Matter and anti-racism related content on social media that provides captioning, transcription, and visual descriptions as requested.
- Save the Disability COVID-19 Healthcare Support Advocacy Hotline number, a resource created by the Disability Underground Network for those with disabilities that need COVID-19 related medical advocacy or other support: 1-800-626-4959.
- If you see medical malpractice against people of disabilities, report it. Here is a list of contacts for each state in the U.S.
- Conduct an accessibility audit in your life — (words provided by Mia Mingus and @thecomradecloset)
- If you create images to share, especially infographics, please provide image descriptions along with graphics to download/share. It helps to remind people about access and allows them to make your content accessible. Disability justice is a practice.
- If you have a website for the campaign you're sharing about, have the image descriptions right next to the graphic so folks can download/copy it. If not, put them in the caption or let folks know they can DM you for them.
- This goes for videos, too. Please caption your videos. And whenever possible, share the most accessible version. No more of this, "DM me for the captioned version." If you have a captioned version of a video, then that is the one you share.
- In your daily life:
- Push back against the ableist demand that someone must be a "productive member of society" in order to deserve life.
- Defy the ways in which ableism asks us to disconnect from our bodies.
Organizations To Support + Follow:+
- American Association of People with Disabilities l @aapdofficial
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network
- Center for Disability Rights l @cdr_nys
- Cr*pple Magazine l @cripple.media
- Disabled In Action
- Disabled Hikers l @disabledhikers
- Disability Justice Collective
- Disability + Intersectionality Summit
- Disability Justice Initiative at Center for American Progress
- Disability Visibility Project l @disability_visibility
- HEARD l @behearddc
- National Council on Independent Living
- Project LETS l @projectlets
- Radical Access Mapping Project
- Sins Invalid
- The Deaf Poets Society
- The Kelsey l @thekelseymore
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:+
- Start here —
- Disability Justice — Project LETS
- The Deaf Poet’s Society— an online publication of deaf and disabled literature + art
- Disability Column by the New York Times
- Articles —
- The Rehabilitation Act of 1964
- 1 in 4 Have a Disability — It's Time to See More in Public Office by Sarah Blahovec — Gender On The Ballot
- 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle beyond the Streets — Disability Visibility Project
- A Disability Should Not Invalidate a Person's Worthiness — Especially During a Pandemic by Nick Winges-Yanez — Ms. Magazine
- A Photo-essay: Decolonizing My Body, My Being by Edward Ndopu — The Feminist Wire
- Access Intimacy: The Missing Link by Mia Mingus — Leaving Evidence
- Accessing Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice by Mia Mingus — Leaving Evidence
- Access Suggestions for Mobilizations — Sins Invalid
- Access Suggestions for a Public Event — Sins Invalid
- Accountable Reporting on Disability, Race, & Police Violence: A Community Response to the “Ruderman White Paper on the Media Coverage of Use of Force and Disability” — by Leroy F. Moore Jr., Talila A. Lewis, and Lydia X. Z. Brown
- Addressing the Criminalization of Disability from a Disability Justice Framework: Centring The Experiences of Disabled Queer Trans Indigenous and People of Colour by Abla Abdelhadi — The Feminist Wire
- Adrie’s Guide to Service Animals: Laws, Rights, and Maneuvers for People Living with Disabilities by Emi Koyama and Adrie — Eminism
- Autism and Safety Toolkit: Safety Tips for Self-Advocates
- Black Cripples Are Your Comrades, Not Your Counterpoint by Cyree Jarelle Johnson — Huff Post
- Changing the Framework: Disability Justice - How our communities can move beyond access to wholeness by Mia Mingus — Leaving Evidence
- Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity by Simi Linton
- Coronavirus Shows Care Work Isn't Just For Disabled Communities Anymore — Bitch Media
- Crip Camp Impact Campaign: Syllabus of Workshops — Crip Camp
- Defining Impairment & Disability – University of Leeds, Centre for Disability Studies
- Disability History Timeline: Resource and Discussion Guide
- Disability Home Manners: Tips for Unlearning Ableist Behavior — Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ)
- Disability Rights Sit-Ins Force Enactment of Section 504 — Zinn Education Project
- Disability Solidarity: Completing the ‘Vision for Black Lives’ by Vilissa Thompson— Huff Post
- Glittering With Accessibility: Virtual Events Pave The Way For a More Inclusive Pride — Bitch Media
- Hand-marked Ballots Are A Disaster for Disabled Voters — Bitch Media
- How Disability Studies Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays by Nwadiogo Ejiogu and Syrus Marcus Ware — Society for Disability Studies, Baruch College
- How to Be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity by Carolyn lazard — PDF
- I Have One of the most advanced prosthetics in the world — and I hate it — Input
- I Really Loved My Job: Why the Pandemic Has Hit These Workers Harder by Andy Newman — NYTimes
- Many Deaf Women Aren't Safer At Home by Sarah Katz — Bitch Media
- Medical Industrial Complex — visual by activist Mia Mingus
- My Apparatus by Neve Be — Model View Culture
- Nuts and Bolts of Accessibility: Guidelines to Increase Basic Accessibility for Organizing — Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ)
- Race and Disability in the Academy by Moya Bailey — The Sociological Review Magazine
- Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva — Mask Magazine
- The COVID Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language by Sarah Katz — Scientific American
- (Un)safe Refuge: The Built-In Ableism in Queer Spaces — Bitch Media
- When Language Runs Dry: A Zine for People with Chronic Pain and Their Allies — Etsy
- You Are Not Entitled to Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy and Interdependence by Mia Mingus — Leaving Evidence
- Books —
- A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain by Christina Crosby
- A Burst of Light and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
- A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
- Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice by Michelle R. Nario-Redmond
- Ableist Rhetoric: How We Know, Value, and See Disability byJames L. Cherney
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
- Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions by Christopher M. Bell
- Black Kripple Delivers Poetry & Lyrics by Leroy Franklin Moore
- Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler
- Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
- Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity by Simi Linton
- Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
- Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
- Criptiques edited by Caitlin Wood
- Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea by Eunjung Kim
- Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada by Allison C. Carey, Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman
- Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
- DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education by Connor, Ferri, and Annamma
- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare
- Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
- Gary in Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher by Gary Fisher and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Haben: The Deaf Blind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
- If At Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny by Zach Anner
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
- Keywords for Disability Studies edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin
- Kindling: Writings on the Body by Aurora Levins Morales
- Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway
- Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals by Aurora Levins Morales
- Moving Politics: Emotions and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould
- Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People: Crip Wisdom for the People edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project
- Sex and Disability by Robert McRuer
- Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement Is Our People: A Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid
- Slingshot by Cyree Jarelle Johnson
- Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka, and Daniel Sluman
- Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is A Nurse by Shane Burcaw
- The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
- The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
- The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Carlos Fuentes
- The Disability Studies Reader edited by Lennard J. Davis
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
- The Me in the Mirror by Connie Panzarino
- The Ring of Fire Anthology by E.T. Russian
- The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
- Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life by Harriet McBryde Johnson
- Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness by Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg, Fran Odette
- Visible: A Femmethology by Jennifer Clare Burke
- Walking with Ghosts by Qwo-Li Driskill
- When Language Runs Dry: An Anthology of Stories From People with Chronic Pain by Claire Barrera and Meredith Butner
- Find more books on Disability + Anti-Ableism here and here
- Watch + Listen —
- Contra — Podcast
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution — Netflix
- Disability Justice is Black Liberation by Movement For Black Lives — IG Live Recording
- Disability Visibility — Podcast
- Find Another Dream by Maysoon Zayid — Audible
- My Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does — Vimeo
- Popaganda: Women and Pain — Podcast
- Power Not Pity — Podcast
- Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty — New Day Films
- The Ability to Live: What Trump’s Health Cuts Mean for People with Disabilities — Vimeo
- The Power of 504 — Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund via YouTube
- Tips and Tricks on How to Be Sick — Podcast
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at info@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Jan 26, 2022.