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EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATION, EVERYDAY ANTI-ABLEISM:
Fighting Oppression as Providers
Mia Mingus, Creating Change 2009
Introductions
SAFER SPACE GUIDELINES
1. Take care of yourself
2. Ask for what you need
Tell me to be louder or clearer!
1. Speak for yourself No outing people Consent to share
2. Let others speak for themselves
3. No assuming, erasing, minimizing
4. Interrupt oppression …respectfully
RESPECT YOURSELF
RESPECT OTHERS
What do we mean by “disabled” or “disability?”
Disability Civil Rights, Social, and Cultural Models
Disabled = Identity
Oppression
Privilege
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 male gender
ABLE ISM Definitions
Disability Justice
Dignity of Risk
Robert Perske
Disability and Workers (Side Note)
Checking assumptions…and labeling versus identity
Isolation
Internal-
ized
Inter-Person
al
Institution-al
Ideas5 Eyes of Oppression
Modified from Mel King,YouthBuild
Ideas
Institution-al
Institutionalization
Inter-Personal
Common Sense As Oppression
Internal-ized
Oppression and TRAUMA
Isolation
Intersecting Oppressions
Intersections of OppressionsThe 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 you?-Eli Clare, Gawking, Gaping, Staring, in Queer Crips, p. 214
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
Oppression
Self-control
*Trauma
Priority
CONSENT!
Other needs
?
Prepared
For Respon
seFor
Support
For Self-Care
Disability Justice and the Other Eyes of Oppression
People in Search of Safe
RestroomsTrans & Queer Students
Disabled
People
Parents & Women
PISSR Becomes PISSAR
& Accessible!
The Autistic Spectrum: What is it?
Sensory
Cognitive
SocialCommunication
Secondary/overlap:PTSD
AllergiesFood sensitivities
Depression/AnxietyPhysical
Attention, Etc.
Emotional
“If you’ve met one person with autism – you’ve met one person with autism."
-Stephen Shore
SENSORY OVERLOAD
Different brain processing of some or all of the following which is defined as or experienced as disabling*:
Ian Ruotsala
Autism and Access
-Sensory preferences for information/communication Sensory reduction
-Food
-Detail-to-whole, metaphors, pop culture
-Don’t be an ass (jokes/sarcasm) -Social interpreters
-Structure! With some flexibility
Make norms explicit!-Stimming allowed!
Use passions & strengths!
-Alone Time
-Earplugs, Hats, etc.
“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 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 are a million ways to start, but how do I reach beneath the skin?
Eli Clare, Exile & Pride, 123, 1999