|
Ear readers, press play to listen to this page.
|
We’re also tired of repeatedly asking events to foreground accessibility, rather than treating it as an afterthought, or expecting us to come in and clean up their inaccessible mess.
How to Make Your Social Justice Events Accessible to the Disability Community
What 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: A Checklist
• 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 – Rooted in Rights
Enable dignity in your spheres of influence with our course on access.
Enable Dignity
- Enable Dignity: Accessible Systems, Spaces, & Events
- Neuroception and Sensory Load: Our Complex Sensory Experiences
- Making Spaces Safer: Bodymind Affirmation and Access Intimacy
Education Access
- Education Access: We’ve Turned Classrooms Into a Hell for Neurodivergence
- We Don’t Need Your Mindset Marketing: Education Technology and the New Behaviorism
- Fix Injustice, Not Kids: Justice, not grit. Justice, not growth mindset. Justice, not behavior “management.” Justice, not rearrangement of injustice.
Healthcare Access
- Healthcare Access: They don’t take Disability Studies classes. They don’t socialize with us. They don’t listen to us.
- We Need Human-Centered Healthcare
Interaction Access
Communication Access
Technology Access
Take The Journey to Dignity
The Accommodations for Natural Human Variation Should Be Mutual
Enable Dignity
Real inclusive organizing should at a minimum include: Incorporating disability into your valuesRemind yourself that shared values, rather than shared beliefs, are what matter when it comes to interacting with others, and that there is no replacement for doing the hard work... More or action statements; having 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 on the organizing committee or board; making accessibility a priority from day one; and listening to feedback from disabled people.
Education Access
We have turned classrooms into hell for neurodivergence
Neurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”NEURODIVERSITY: SOME BASIC TERMS & DEFINITIONS Neurodivergent is quite... More. Students with conflicting sensory needs and accommodations are squished together with no access to cave, campfire, or watering hole zones. This sensory environment feeds the overwhelm -> meltdown -> burnout cycle. Feedback loops cascade.
Healthcare Access
They don’t take disability studies classes.
They don’t socialize with us.
They don’t listen to us.
Wanted: hospitals and doctors’ offices that…
They don’t socialize with us.
They don’t listen to us.
Interaction Access
Interaction badges are useful tools. Their red, yellow, green communication indicators map to our cave, campfire, and watering hole moods. The cave, campfire, watering hole and red, yellow, green reductions are a useful starting place when designing for neurological pluralismANI launched its online list, ANI-L, in 1994. Like a specialized ecological niche, ANI-L had acted as an incubator for Autistic culture, accelerating its evolution. In 1996, a computer programmer... More.
Communication Access
“Written communication is the great social equalizer.” It allows us to participate and be a part of things bigger than ourselves.
Technology Access
Our multi-age learning community sets up and runs our organization. We don’t use learning management software. Instead, our learners use the professional tools of a modern, neurodiverse organization, without all the ed-tech surveillance baked in. We use technology to co-create paths to equity
EquityA 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 access with our learners.
