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Enable Dignity: The Accommodations for Natural Human Variation Should Be Mutual

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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: A Checklist – Rooted in Rights

Enable dignity in your spheres of influence with our course on access.

Enable Dignity

Education Access

Healthcare Access

Interaction Access

Communication Access

Technology Access

Take The Journey to Dignity

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Enable Dignity

Real inclusive organizing should at a minimum include: Incorporating disability into your values or action statements; having disabled people on the organizing committee or board; making accessibility a priority from day one; and listening to feedback from disabled people.

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Education Access

We have turned classrooms into hell for neurodivergence. 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.

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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…

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Interaction Access

Color Communication Badges (aka Interaction Badges) are an accommodation to support social interaction for people with a variety of disabilities and communication needs.

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Communication Access

Written communication is the great social equalizer.” It allows us to participate and be a part of things bigger than ourselves.

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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 and access with our learners.