boost: Grounding Movements in Disability Justice webinar available

Last month I attended the Grounding Movements in Disability Justice panel online. It was great. The video (with ASL interpreters and a PDF transcript) is now up! It’s free! Check it out!
https://www.dustinpgibson.com/offerings/groundingmovementsindj

I was particularly impressed by Azza Altiraifi, who explained an idea capri0mni introduced me to: that various oppressive systems use disability bigotry as the lever to enforce power over oppressed people. To label someone as "disabled" is to erase their right to have control over their own life. Azza explores how this intersects with anti-Black racism in the U.S. She’s part of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think-tank:
https://americanprogress.org/about/staff/altiraifi-azza/bio/
If I were on Twitter, I’d definitely follow Azza_Alt!

There’s another panel tomorrow night, Friday, May 8th at 7:00 PM EST, on Disability Justice & COVID-19. Join the livestream by signing up at bit.ly/djgrounding

I’m so grateful that this information is available and provided in accessible ways. This is the way forward with hope: follow the ideas and leadership of Black people, who have been surviving and thriving in a system set against them for centuries.

Here’s Azza Altiraifi, copied from the transcript
( 660 words of wisdom )