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Talila
@talilalewis
Mar 14, 2019 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Disability is traditionally viewed through a privileged lens making it difficult to see disability in marginalized ppl/communities.

This working definition of ableism addresses gaps in the traditional framing of disability+ableism.

goo.gl/NyR3KN

#DisabilitySolidarity Image with text of working ...
UPDATED WORKING DEFINITON OF #ABLEISM
-edited for length+clarity
-names colonialism as key to construction of ableism
-more explicitly acknwldgs reproductive in/justice+ productivity
-names @notthreefifths+Black/negatively racialized Disabled folk as centeral to my understanding. Image
ID: Brown square with the following words:
ABLEISM a·ble·ism \ ˈābə-ˌli-zəm \ noun
A system that places value on people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence, excellence and productivity. (1/3)
constructed ideas are deeply rooted in anti-Blackness, eugenics, colonialism & capitalism. This form of systmic opprsn leads to ppl and society determining who is valuable & worthy based on a person’s appearance and/or their ability to satisfactorily [re]produce, excel & "behave”
You do not have to be disabled to experience ableism.

a working definition by Talila "TL" Lewis in conversation with Disabled Black and other negatively racialized folk, especially Dustin Gibson; updated January 2020
Context & blog with additional info for the definition linked here: bit.ly/ableismcontext

#DisabilitySolidarity
2021 UPDATED ABLEISM DEFINITION simplifies previous versions and explicitly includes desirability, misogyny, imperialism, language & religion as ideologies/characteristics used by societies, institutions, ppl to assign value to others.

#DisabilityJustice
#DisabilitySolidarity Deep purple and blue gradie...
#ABLEISM 2022

The #pandemic has illustrated how purported "fitness" & location are used to assign value.

This year's edits name "health/wellness"+age; & replaces "nationality" with birth/living place.

bit.ly/ableism2022

#covid19
#DisabilityJustice
#DisabilitySolidarity image w definition of ablei...
same 2022 updated working definition of #ableism with an inverted color scheme. Alt text avail on the image and here with additional context: bit.ly/ableism2022 able·ism /ˈābəˌlizəm/ noun ...

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Talila
Jul 6
Black/Indigenous/Disabled communities+our Elders responded to @HarperCollins+@HarperOneBooks reiterating urgent concerns re Be A Revolution.

Signatories incl:

@SFdirewolf
@DrSamiSchalk
@behearddc
@HTCSolidarity
@dissolidarity
me & others

We again urge this book be pulled. Quotes from Black/Indigenous/Disabled Communities’ Collective Response to HarperOne & Ijeoma Oluo’s book Be A Revolution from profiled people, families, organizations, Elders. Sent to HarperCollins editors and attorneys, 30 June 2024. Image of book cover and side panel (creme background with orange pink and yellow rectangles and the title of the book) alongside a QR code with access information: bit.ly/pullbearevolution access info (e.g., audio+visual)
@HarperCollins @HarperOneBooks @SFdirewolf @DrSamiSchalk @behearddc @HTCSolidarity @dissolidarity In community and with great sadness, we write this letter to publicly share serious and urgent concerns...

The book contains countless disclosures, falsehoods, and misrepresentations, many of which present real and current safety and other risks to people profiled and named. In community and with great sadness, we write this letter to publicly share serious and urgent concerns with the print and audio versions of the book, [Be A Revolution]. The author, Ijeoma Oluo, gathered and shared information without full transparency, fact/cross checking, informed consent, access, or even notice. The book contains countless disclosures, falsehoods, and misrepresentations, many of which present real and current safety and other risks to people profiled and named.
@HarperCollins @HarperOneBooks @SFdirewolf @DrSamiSchalk @behearddc @HTCSolidarity @dissolidarity ..We're politically/lifelong disabled Black/Indigenous authors, artists, attorneys, organizers, profs, griots--regarded as “experts” bc of decades of study & work...Yet, Oluo mis/wrote over & HarperOne published about us w/o so much as notifying us, our communities, orgs, Elders. Oluo is a mixed race (white*+Black) ciswoman. . . who did not identify as disabled and told us she knew very little about disability. We are politically/lifelong disabled Black/Indigenous authors, artists, attorneys, organizers, professors, griots--regarded as “experts” because of decades of study and work. . .Yet, Oluo mis/wrote over and HarperOne published about us without so much as notifying us, our communities, organizations, Elders. She asked disabled people for conversations to help her develop “[o]ne of the chapters” on race and disability in the context of our work, noting that, “...
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Talila
May 8
Comm. Accountability

me+other Black/Indig disabled folk were (mis)featured in "Be A Revolution" by Ijeoma Oluo wo consent/notice. Oluo has also bullied+doxed me on top of this offensive inaccurate portrayal.

Tell @HarperOneBooks: pull this "book" now!

This is not about intent or animus. This is about accuracy, agency, consent, humanity, and accountability.

An afterthought and literary device to Oluo, *Black/Indigenous/Disability* is everythought and breath to us... Slide 1: cover of the book, Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too. Book cover has Orange Pink Yellow rectangles on a beige backdrop with black words: NYT best selling author of, so you want to talk about race, Ijeoma Oluo and the full title of this book. All slides have the side panel of the book on the left hand side of the slide The text reads: Initial Reactions from Disabled Black/Indigenous People Who Are Intimately+Heavily Profiled in HarperOne’s book, Be A Revolution (& excerpts from an interview with the aut...
We took very seriously our stated role in preparing Oluo to develop a single chapter on race and disability. What a supreme let down, betrayal, and insult. Even what we correctly reported not accurately reported. . . Slide 2: “I had one convo with her, recommended some folks she talk to and then the book came out. I was def[initely] surprised that I was a whole chapter but mine doesn’t feel misrepresentative as yours does.” Initial response to HarperOne’s, Be A Revolution, from heavily+intimately featured Disabled Black/Indigenous person (February 2024).
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Talila
Jan 4, 2023
In this interview w/ @ProfGeorgeYancy I explain how ableism in/forms+drives racism, capitalism & all other oppression.

"Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled & nondisabled people alike."

via @truthout

bit.ly/whatisableism
Here are some pull quotes from this piece with @ProfGeorgeYancy & @truthout.

Hoping to have an audio version soon.

Stay tuned for the second portion of this convo next week where we discuss ableism as the driving force behind all forms of incarceration. creme background with rand...
@ProfGeorgeYancy @truthout "all oppression is rooted in & dependent on ableism-esp anti-Black/Indigenous racism...ableism plays a leading role in how we frame, understand, construct & respond to race, class, gender,...nationality, criminal status, disability, & countless other identities..." ". . . all oppression ...
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Talila
Aug 27, 2022
the construction of “race” is wholly dependent on ableism.

we can’t fully comprehend racism without an anti-ableist lens; and we can’t dismantle racism without an anti-ableist praxis (this is especially & particularly true of anti-Black/indigenous racism).
ableism plays a leading role in how we frame, understand, construct, and respond to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, criminal status, disability, and countless other identities.
all oppression is rooted in and dependent on ableism—especially anti-Black/indigenous racism.
Read 7 tweets
Talila
Jul 5, 2020
Not back on social media. Only sharing a piece I wrote on a day where many celebrate a freedom too many have never known.

Freeing Black Fates & Capturing Black Freedom: Reclaiming Our Humanity, Contextualizing Our Trauma & Honoring Our Resistance

Link: bit.ly/captureblackfr… Description: A graphite drawing of a boy in a hoodie, based Black square with a definition written in white and tan wor
It contains heavy and painful content so please use discretion.

It touches on many issues and connections that I think are critical. It is a validation of Black humanity and a celebration of Black resistance.
It's an acknowledgement of Black people’s collective complex traumas-a naming of what occurs after centuries of stolen, swinging, swollen Black bodies is followed by erasure of this violence and problematizing of our resistance to white supremacist violence.
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Talila
Aug 16, 2018
The "I can do anything except..." framing in Disability/Deaf communities is ableist.
I know that very few want to admit or discuss this but it needs challenge, intense scrutiny & deep reflection and conversation. Not necessarily here but I hope folks are having these conversations cuz this is harmful.
It runs counter to Disability Rights, Disability Justice and Disability Solidarity precepts and praxis. It allows society to continue to believe that others who are unable to do some things are inherently lacking which contributes to systemic societal marginalization.
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