EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATION EVERYDAY ANTIABLEISM Fighting Oppression as Providers
EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATION, EVERYDAY ANTIABLEISM: Fighting Oppression as Providers
Mia Mingus, Creating Change 20
Introductions
SAFER SPACE GUIDELINES RESPECT YOURSELF 1. Take care of yourself 2. Ask for what you need Tell me to be louder or RESPECT OTHERS 1. Speak for yourself � No outing people � Consent to share 2. Let others speak for themselves 3. No assuming, erasing, minimizing
What do we mean by “disabled” or “disability? ” Disability � Civil Rights, Social, and Cultural Models � Disabled = Identity
Oppression Privilege
ABLE ISM Definitions Prejudice and discrimination based on disabled status. “Ableism is the idea that having a difference or disability is bad. ” Galen Smith - The over-privileging of certain kinds of abilities. -Parallel to sexism as over-privileging
Disability Justice
Dignity of Risk Robert Perske
Disability and Workers (Side Note)
Checking assumptions… and labeling versus identity
5 Eyes of Oppression Isolatio n Interna l-ized Ideas Institutio n-al Inter. Person al Modified from Mel King, Youth. Build
Ideas
Institutio n-al
Institutionalization
Inter. Personal
Common Sense As Oppression
Internalized
Oppression and TRAUMA
Isolation
Intersecting Oppressions
Intersections of Oppressions The gawkers never get it right. They’ve turned away from me, laughed, thrown rocks, pointed their fingers, quoted Bible verses, called me immoral and depraved, tried to heal me, swamped me in pity. Their hatred snarls into me, and often I can’t separate the homophobia from the ableism from the transphobia. The gawkers never get it right, but what I want to know is this: will
Ideas about responding…
Responding as an Ally or Supporter…
CONSENT!
Advocacy, or Self. Advocacy?
Power, Privilege, and Response
Is now the time and place? Safety Priority Oppressio n Selfcontrol *Trauma CONSEN T! Other needs ? Prepared For Respons e For Support For Self -Care
Disability Justice and the Other Eyes of Oppression
PISSR Becomes PISSAR People in Search of Safe & Accessible! Restrooms Trans & Queer Students Parents & Women Disabled People
“If you’ve met one The person with autism – Autistic you’ve met one person Spectrum: with autism. " -Stephen Different What is it? brain processing Shore of some or all of the following which is defined as or experienced as disabling*: Secondary/overlap: Sensory Cognitive PTSD Allergies Food sensitivities Emotional Depression/Anxiety Social Physical Communication Attention, Etc. Ian Ruotsala SENSORY OVERLO
Autism and Access Use passions & strengths! -Sensory preferences for information/communicati -Detail-to-whole, on metaphors, pop culture Sensory reduction -Earplugs, Hats, etc Make norms explicit! -Stimming allowed! -Social interpreters -Alone Time -Don’t be an ass (jokes/sarcasm) -Food -Structure! With some flexibility
“I prefer to be subtle”
What are you thinking about?
Gender reaches into disability; Disability wraps around class; Class strains against abuse; Abuse snarls into sexuality; Sexuality folds on top of race … Everything finally piling into Eli Clare, Exile & Pride, 123, 1999 a single human body. … Where to start? … with the memory of how my body felt swimming in the river, Chinook fingerlings nibbling at my toes. There a million ways to start, but how do I reach beneath the skin?
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