On ability

Audre Lorde, Black lesbian feminist poet, 1980 portrait by K. Kendall
audre lorde · 1980

"your silence will not protect you."

access is love
nothing about us without us

made by james leung

what is disability justice?

  1. 1. intersectionality
  2. 2. leadership of those most impacted
  3. 3. anti-capitalist politic
  4. 4. commitment to cross-movement organizing
  5. 5. recognizing wholeness
  6. 6. sustainability
  7. 7. commitment to cross-disability solidarity
  8. 8. interdependence
  9. 9. collective access
  10. 10. collective liberation
see sins invalid

the numbers

1 in 4 U.S. adults live with a disability.
~60,000 people forcibly sterilized under U.S. eugenics laws (1907–1970s).
66% of women in U.S. prisons report a disability.
3–4× police use of force is more likely against disabled people.

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i was told to be quiet.

my body is not a mistake.

my body is a map.

it has access in the bone.

they said: be quiet, be small, be inspiration.

i said: i am the earthquake they prayed against.

we are the ancestors of a future they cannot imagine.

crips hold the future.

[PLACEHOLDER · expand to 25–40 lines · this is the heart of the zine.]

see also

smash
ableism

Made By James Leung for WST 102