The US @dol’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month #NDEAM strives to promote hiring, retention, & career advancement of disabled people. Now, on its 75th celebration, this message is incredibly important in wake of the pandemic as we face unprecedented unemployment 1/5
Disabled people already contribute to the workforce in meaningful ways. Unfortunately, some of #NDEAM’s resources promote inspiration porn and offer a narrow, capitalistic view about the benefits of hiring disabled individuals. We DO NOT support this. 2/5
Since members of our group are in higher ed, we have framed our month of actions around increasing access to employment in the academy, at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. 3/5
We will highlight the ways in which the @dol’s #NDEAM gets it right and the ways in which notions of productivity harm disabled people. We feel it is important to address these issues head-on, and we believe that diversity begins with a foundation of accessibility. 4/5
We are borrowing the best parts of #NDEAM, and rewriting the approaches that we find trivializing. Over the course of the month, we’ll provide content that begins from the understanding that inclusivity is justice. 5/5
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