Our Philosophy page lists• Progress in human understanding has become increasingly complex and overwhelming.• Checklists help prevent serious but easily avoidable mistakes.• Checklists should be as short as possible, include all essential steps… More acquired phrases that we steer by. They are compasses and stars that align us on our mission.

We added phrases on Community, CareThe activities that constitute care are crucial for human life. We defined care in this way: Care is “a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue,… More, Love, Disability JusticeDisability justice (and disability itself) has the potential to fundamentally transform everything we think about quality of life, purpose, work, relationships, belonging.Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century… More, InterdependenceInterdependence acknowledges that our survival is bound up together, that we are interconnected and what you do impacts others. If this pandemic has done nothing else, it has illuminated how… More, and Belonging from Dr. Sami Schalk, “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope“, “Center Disability Justice in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts“, “You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence“, “ubuntu as praxis“, and “Unbelonging“.

We can start building more accessible, care-centered communitiesWhat I have always been hoping to accomplish is the creation of community.Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-First-Person-Stories-Twenty-First-ebook/dp/B082ZQBL98/ https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-Adapted-Young-Adults-ebook/dp/B08VFT4R9T/… More now. We can combat ableismable·ism /ˈābəˌlizəm/ nounA system of assigning value to people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness. These constructed ideas are deeply… More now. We can lay the groundwork for a world that works better for all of us.

DR. SAMI SCHALK ON TWITTER

To build community requires vigilant awarenessAcceptance means training mental health service providers to look at autism and other disabilities as a part of a person’s identity, rather than a problem that needs to be fixed. Acceptance… More of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope * bell hooks Books

The moment has come to advance and recognize the promise of disability justice.

Together, we can meet the moment, center individuals who are most impacted, and rebuild as a more just nation if we see disability as part of the continuing struggle for our full civil rights and liberties. We recognize that there is no justice that neglects disability.

Center Disability Justice in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

Interdependence acknowledges that our survival is bound up together, that we are interconnected and what you do impacts others. Interdependence is the only way out of most of the most pressing issues we face today. If we do not understand that we are interdependent with the planet we as a species will not survive.

You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence  | Leaving Evidence

“DisabledThe label “disabled” means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself… More people live at the intersection of all systems of oppression and social justice issues. There isn’t one issue or one intersection where you will not find disabled individuals advocating for or experiencing the effects of those issues.” — Daphne Frias, youth activist, organizer, storyteller, and peacebuilder.

Center Disability Justice in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

If the philanthropic sector is to advance social justice, diversity, equityEquityA commitment to action: the process of redistributing access and opportunity to be fair and just.A way of being: the state of being free of bias, discrimination, and identity-predictable outcomes… More, and inclusion, then we must recognize that disability is a key element in our work.

Center Disability Justice in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

There is no justice that neglects disability.

Achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion means putting disability justice in every policy discussion and making it part of the continuing struggle for civil rights.

Center Disability Justice in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

I feel that that the fundamental property of humanness is to fill those spaces where humanity has been abandoned with love.

Those who would change the system have to begin with love, and with the vision to build geographies of care built from that love.

ubuntu as praxis – Charles write here

The spaces where we belong do not exist. We build them with radical love and revolutionary liberation.

Gayatri Sethi, Unbelonging

The place where we belong does not exist. We will build it.

James Baldwin via Gayatri Sethi in Unbelonging